Windows Smart Security, the shiniest, pinkest malware I’ve ever seen, is fake antispyware dressed in pink and buffed to a glittery sheen. Did I mention this thing is shiny and pink? I can’t seem to focus on anything else right now. It’s just that it’s so shiny. And pink.

Color scheme aside, Windows Smart Security is malicious scareware. It enters your computer as a Trojan, spams you out of your mind with Windows Smart Security pop-ups, and performs fake scans. It’ll show a bunch of made-up infections, and then it’ll urge you to pay for a licensed version that doesn’t exist.

It may also display a fake blue screen that shows this error:

*** NTFS.SYS – Address 0xFBFE7617 base at 0xFD3094C2, DateStamp 3d6abeff
*** STOP: 0×00000050 (0xFD3094C2,0×00000001,0xFBFE7617,0×00000000)

Try to avert your eyes from the dazzling brightness, and I’ll show you how to remove Windows Smart Security from your computer, for free.

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