‘ErrorSafe’ Suite Fools and Pesters Users

Released by: Manish Katara

Ever seen horror movies with a chain of serial possessions?

Email: manish@mwti.net

Keywords: Antivirus news, internet worm, AntiVirus Software, AntiSpam, Tech news, Software news

Update Date: 1/20/2006 12:17:12 PM

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Descrption:
Ever seen horror movies with a chain of serial possessions? You never know who’s possessed and who’s not. Before you could wink an eye, the lead lady of the movie becomes a ghost! The story of trouble fixers, registry cleaners and such innumerable "one click, all clear" wonders are no different. Many of them are spywares and adwares themselves in the clothing of perfect solutions to your problems. "ErrorSafe" is one such adware MicroWorld has detected.

The stylishly designed website of ‘ErrorSafe’, which looks very much like an official Microsoft website, uses Windows XP design elements all around, with some glassy buttons and bars. Windows XP logo is cleverly displayed on the product box claiming the platform compatibility! Contact information on the website speaks nothing about the address and location of the company. Home page reads that it’s an "All-In-One-Suite" that provides complete professional system optimization, protection and recovery solution to fix your computer problem. Once downloaded, it starts displaying a myriad of annoying pop-up ads on affected PCs. ErrorSafe’s behavior includes using confusing ads, wrong information, false positives and uncloseable message boxes. The problem has just begun!

This adware automatically gives error messages about severe computer threats even when the program is not running. This way, ErrorSafe gives an impression that it has nothing to do with these messages. It is a sophisticated program and can evade detection by normal adware and spyware inspectors. Most popup blockers are unable to stop the pop-ups engineered by ErrorSafe as they are created at the Operating System level.

WinFixer is another dubious program of the same nature and tribe of ErrorSafe. It has a very similar website, only difference being, it’s in complete red where ErrorSafe is all blue! MicroWorld experts are currently studying the components of ErrorSafe and its ramifications.

MicroWorld products eScan and MailScan are highly powerful and extremely effective against spywares and adwares with their very large database of such malice. Apart from getting updated every hour, it blocks all programs that looks suspicious in its purpose, while informing you of the same. MicroWorld advises its users to update their software regularly to thwart threats of this nature. Incase one has already downloaded this program, the MWAV toolkit can be used to detect and remove same.

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