System Live Protect may be the latest rogue — or fake — anti-spyware software. Like other rogue anti spyware software, System Live Protect may install onto your PC without your permission, through web browser security holes, and System Live Protect may pop up false alerts to try to scare you into buying the full version of their application. System Live Protect’s popup may look like a Windows alert, and it may read:

“Sytem Live Protect is now running
Live Protect is already at work helping take care of your computer. There’s not much more you need to do.

Look to the icon
Our icon tells you we’re working. When it’s green, there’s nothing you need to do. When it’s red or yellow [sic] click the icon to open the Live Protect and see the steps you need to take to get back to green.”

To get back to green, System Live Protect may want you to run an “urgent” scan on your PC. System Live Protect’s official site, Live-Protect.com, looks like it may be registered by EstDomains, Inc., makers of other popular rogue anti-spyware like ContraVirus that likes to get chummy with your PC and cozy in your system’s registry.

Want my opinion? EstDomains, Inc. public relations department should get paid a lot, and you should remove System Live Protect from your computer.

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