The FAKE…

Webster defines Fake as having a false or misleading appearance; fraudulent. That just sounds awful in my opinion. In today’s world you are always having to watch out for the “fakes”, always trying to make sure you are choosing a legit offer and in the technology world it is no different.

The latest “fake” is called the System Restore Virus. This is a virus that will pretend as one program that focuses on hard drive and system optimization. However, in reality, this is another addition to the lists of fake hard drive defragmentation programs. It differs from other rogue programs that will produce virus scan on the system. What System Restore virus does is scan the PC for known system and hard drive errors.  This fake application will provide PC Performance & Stability Analysis Report that will show false information regarding initialization errors, bad sectors and a bunch of critical errors. It also displays a bunch of fake pop-up alerts informing users of hard drive and system malfunction.Issuing these types of alert is specifically to make users think that computer needs a licensed version of System Restore to be able to resolve given errors. Malware authors push their programs to the edge where it can even disable legitimate antivirus programs on target machine. Therefore, System Restore reigns as the sole security and optimization software at hand.

The real solution to this kind of problem is to remove the culprit itself. Removing System Restore virus from a compromised system will also stop excessive annoyances it brings. Only use a legitimate anti-virus application and we discourage you to purchase the fake and unknown software.

If you are suffering from this virus or have more questions about preventing the System Restore Infection please contact us and we will be glad to help you.

To learn more about how Elad can meet your technology needs, contact Summer Blain at 270-737-Elad