Guides describing features of rogue software and the ways to remove it. Easy instructions to uninstall rogue software completely and tips on how to avoid it.
For an inattentive user, or for a user who has believed the promotional description of an application, WareOut seems to be a powerful anti-spyware tool. Unfortunately, in the end they understand that installing WareOut was a mistake. It soon turns out that WareOut lacks the capabilities to detect and delete spyware, instead it fakes notifications about threats to convince user in purchasing the full version of the program.
RegClean Pro is a registry cleaning utility developed by Systweak.com. This application is one of those that users want to have on their PCs to make their systems faster. However many security experts relegate RegClean Pro to Potentially Unwanted Applications. The reasons for it are explained by the method the program uses to get inside a system and the application functioning as well. Regclean Pro is rarely installed by user’s intention, more often the program looks for sneaky ways to be installed.
NowUSeeit is a media player that gathers its audience by being promoted as an application that allows watching Internet videos without opening a browser. Besides accessing media it offers free browser add-ons and extensions. And here lies the rub – the program is ad-supportive, and the extensions is how the ads land into your browser. The intrusiveness of the application outweighs its would-be benefits. Being both adware and a rogue software, the application both doesn’t provide the claimed functions and brings commercials to browsers, so you can remove NowUSeeit Player without regret.
Reimage Repair is a fake system optimization tool developed by Reimage company. The program closely resembles the other of this type, so it easily befools people. The application mimics the functions of real optimizers and even imitates system scans. However, the result is always predictable - Reimage Repair will raise a scare about PC condition.
WebDiscover is a browser that is deservedly treated as Potentially Unwanted Application. It established this reputation because of its unauthorized method of installation and the malicious effects it has. The browser itself is based on Google Chromium project and is pushed for as a more functional alternative to popular web browsers.
System Healer is promoted as a PC optimizing tool that has no match among the programs of the same kind. Despite these big words, the legitimate look of the official site and the interface that doesn’t arouse suspicions, System Healer is labeled as Potentially Unwanted Program and a rogue software. By being so, System Healer imitates functions and operating of a real application - it scans registry entries, looks for error in PC performance, check the privacy security, etc.
Windows Prime Shield application belongs to the family of rogue programs developed by FakeVimes. Such applications have the form of trustworthy antimalware programs that will protect your system, meanwhile being themselves a malware that doesn’t have any of the stated capabilities. However, Windows Prime Shield imitates the security activities quite well. From the moment it is installed and until it is eliminated, the application will launch virus scans automatically with every system reboot. And no matter what you do or how clean your PC is, it would give you alerts about viruses
SpeedMaxPC is a program that can be easily mistaken for a registry cleaner and an optimization tool, however it can be without exaggeration classified as a rogue application, which means it should be dealt with correspondingly. As the promotional campaign says SpeedMaxPC is developed to grant its users all tools needed for fixing system errors and boosting the system speed. The interface of SpeedMaxPC is also thought out to look like a GUI of a legitimate program, however that’s where the resemblance comes to an end. Unfortunately, the words of SpeedMaxPC developers are empty and the program is not capable of solving any of the system problems, on the contrary, the application add headache to its user.
AdProtect is a program that claims to operate as an anti-spyware, though on further investigation it appears to be a rogue application. It get installed on systems bypassing the defenses and acts as a reliable tool. At least, at the start. The tool itself initiates a fake malware scan, which unfailingly ends in a number of security alerts. These notifications are generated and have nothing in common with real situation - AdProtect detects system problems and malware issues even on new machines. The developers of AdProtect suppose to scare users and persuade them to buy a full version of the application, so that the problems could be solved.
