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Windows Cleaning Toolkit is the new member of the Rogue.VirusDoctor family of fictitious anti-spyware tools. The clandestine program is an immediate descendant of the infamous Windows Expert Console, and as our researchers have discovered these programs are almost identical. Some other threats from the same faction include Windows Safety Series, Windows Secure Workstation and Windows Anti-Malware Patch. Due to the misleading names of these threats many Windows users believe that they are authentic and can be trusted with malware detection and removal tasks. Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers warn that you should remove Windows Cleaning Toolkit as soon as possible because the application is fictitious and has been created by schemers to trick you into giving up your own savings. Even though the removal of the threat is not that simple you must perform it right away. Read more »

Windows Expert Console is a deceitful computer security tool which can be easily installed on unprotected computers. If you have found that the system is being scanned by Windows Expert Console, do not hesitate to scan the computer with a reliable anti-spyware tool. The program in question belongs to a malware group called Rogue.VirusDoctor, which includes such bogus programs as Windows Safety Series, Windows Secure Workstation, and many others. Read more »

System Check is a rogue PC defragmentation program which is associated with such bogus tools as Data Repairs and System Repair. The supposedly reliable program is presented as a tool that can check the system drive status, RAM status, and system registry status. Its goal is to convince the user that it can fix various system errors if the full version of program is bought. In order to do so, System Check provides the user with fake scan results and numerous alerts that inform the user about serious security performance issues. The removal of System Check is all that you should be focus on because this application will not help you to boost the performance of the system. Moreover, its presence means that some Trojan horse is installed on your PC. Read more »

PP.exe is an executable file that is related to the PC Privacy Defender family of rogue antispyware applications. It means that if you have this exact file running in your system, you also have a fake antivirus program installed on your computer, and you should be experiencing a number of annoying rogue infection symptoms. Since PC Privacy Defender wants to make it seem as though your PC has been infected with malware, it will try to sell its own “service” to you, although the program definitely cannot deliver. In order to remove PP.exe you definitely need to terminate PC Privacy Defender as a whole. Read more »

If you have installed Linksicle, get ready to receive Linksicle ads, which you should ignore at any price. The application is installed as a browser add-on, and works on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Moreover, it can be used on any websites. Linksicle is available at linksicle.com, and it aim is to make your experience online better. When you find an interesting term or word, you have to highlight it and click the icon which appears next to the word; then a pop-up window containing various online sources related to the selected word appears. You do not have to go to a search engine because the thirst tab contains several links to the websites containing the information about that word. On the second tab, you can use Bing Translation, while on the last on you can use a thesaurus. Read more »

Warning! The site you are attempting to view may harm your computer is an extract from a fake alert that stops you from accessing a particular website. It is part of Antivirus Security Pro and Security Cleaner Pro setup. These are rogue antispyware applications that employ various dirty tricks in order to push you into spending your money on a product that cannot deliver. Obviously, this notification can be very annoying. To remove Warning! The site you are attempting to view may harm your computer from your browser, you need to remove the fake antivirus application responsible for it in the first place. Read more »

Is Antimalware scanning your operating Windows system and warning you about such allegedly running threats as Downloader.JS.Agent or WinWebSecurity2008? You do not need to pay any attention to the intimidating scanner reports provided by this application, simply because it is 100% fake! This fictitious anti-spyware tool has been developed by cyber criminals to lure out your money. Do you know how their scam works? They firstly infiltrate the clandestine rogue and then they use the fake AV to scan your PC and present you with various dangerous infections which supposedly have corrupted the computer. If you believe that these infections truly exist and decide to remove them, you will be asked to pay for the full-version of the fictitious anti-virus. Needless to say, this is not what you need to do, and Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers rush you to remove Antimalware. Read more »

Security Cleaner Pro is yet another clandestine rogue anti-spyware from the Rogue.WinWebSec family. Thousands of Windows users have already dealt with other clandestine infections from this faction, and you may have already heard about Sinergia Cleaner, Antivirus Security Pro, Attentive Antivirus, System Doctor 2014, and tens of other malicious rogues. The strength of these infections lies within the interfaces. For example, if your operating Windows system gets infected with Security Cleaner Pro, you are presented with a program which does not look malicious at all. Read more »

Web-opinions.com is a tremendously suspicious website which supports a number of online offers, deals and advertisements. Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers have discovered that adverts related to the website may flood your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers even if you have never visited it yourself. This is tremendously suspicious, and so we categorize it as an advertisement-supported program or simply adware. Read more »

Sinergia Cleaner is a fictitious anti-spyware program which can block access to the computer based on the allegedly attacking computer infections. In reality, all of the threats listed by the scanner linked to the fake AV tool do not exist on your personal computer and access to the web has been restricted illegally. The schemers behind the rogue have employed these tricks to convince you to purchase the full-version of the program which allegedly can detect and remove computer infections. If you spend your money on the fictional Windows security application, it is possible that you will not be able to retrieve it. If you do not delete Sinergia Cleaner from the system in time, it is most likely that cyber criminals will expose security backdoors and invite other dangerous and clandestine computer threats. Read more »