ProtectPcs is another malware that makes use of trojans in the form of downloadable codecs, drivers, or antivirus tools to infect your system. Once inside, it can let your computer run slow and generate irritating popups as well as other types of notifications. Because these trojans find their way into your system through rogue websites, naive web surfers are the most likely victims.
If you’re easily duped into making downloads from just about any site, then we won’t be surprised if you’ve already got ProtectPcs in your system.
ProtectPcs can perform fake scans to make it appear that its searching for viruses in your hard drive. To make it look realistic, it also installs files in your system directories and reports them to you through the popups and notifications. Sure enough, when you try to run a search to verify their presence, you’ll find them right where ProtectPcs wants you to – in the system folders.
But ProtectPcs doesn’t end there. The makers of this rogue program can’t gain anything if all it does is slow down your system. To make money, the evil developers of this program designed it to dupe you into purchasing a so-called full version of this fake antivirus.
They will claim that the full version is the only way you can get rid of the virus it is said to have discovered inside your system. But in reality, the full version does nothing at all.
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