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Monthly Archives May 2011
XP Defender Pro
XP Defender Pro forms part of a sophisticated family of rogue antispyware applications which has the ability to alter its properties to fit in with its environment. This is to say that depending on which Operating System the user is running, XP Defender Pro can alter its name to Vista Defender Pro or Win 7 Defender Pro. What is more, XP Defender Pro is a fake security tool which only emulates the workings of a real antispyware application. It certainly does not have the ability to protect against any type of threat, and never had the intention to. ...
Windows 7 Recovery
PC owners who value their PC’s smooth running should not mistake Windows 7 Recovery as a genuine defragmenter. If you need further evidence that Windows 7 Recovery is not a legitimate application, the fact that it derives from the very same family as hotly detested Windows Vista Recovery and Windows XP Recovery should already make you extremely cautious. Of course, Windows 7 Recovery will do everything in its power to convince you of its legitimacy, but this does not change the fact that Windows 7 Recovery is nothing more than a malicious infection incapable of ridding the system from any type of errors or problems. ...
Windows XP Recovery
There are many fake antispyware and optimization applications out there with the sole intention of ripping you off, as is the case with Windows XP Recovery. This rogue defragmenter proclaims to be able to identify and fix system errors and improve your PC’s performance, but in reality this seemingly auspicious looking software is in fact a malicious application which offers your PC no benefit whatsoever. Despite its best efforts at convincing its prospective victims of its legitimacy, Windows XP Recovery is unable to live up to any of its promises, and will not fix any errors. ...
Antivirus Center
The developers of well-known and despised rogue antispyware application Internet Protection have released their latest clone, Antivirus Center. This rogue was designed with the same malicious intent as its predecessor, and has only improved on its deviousness. As with any other rogue, Antivirus Center’s main purpose and intent is to only rip its victims off. It does not have any intention or ability to live up to any of its over embellished promises. ...
