If you’ve come across Think Point antispyware software – be aware. It is a fake program created with intention to trick scared computer users into purchasing a useless full version.
The infection sources may vary, but most popular ones include installing a video codec on an untrustworthy site, opening an e-mail attachment from a falsified e-mail named after a courier company (such as DHL, or FedEx), pop-up’s, or as even some users reported, while playing a game on Facebook.
After clicking on fake warning messages, a Trojan is installed which opens up a “backdoor” to internet. An automated script does a series of instructions hijacking your browser and changing registry entries that result in an unusable computer – desktop icons are removed, task manager and internet connection is disabled.
Some users may be presented with a Microsoft Security Essentials Alert which is actually created by the Think Point infection. This alert promotes five security programs, including Think Point. While one is given a choice to select, Think Pont will be installed no matter what you choose.
Think Point will perform a computer scan which generates a false report including massive amounts of Trojans, viruses and spyware being found your machine. It is also impossible to run any executable application, because all is blocked by Think Point – a message will be popped up stating that executable file is already infected.
All this is done in order to scare an amateur computer user and force him into purchasing a full version, which costs 90$.
Get Rid of ThinkPoint Fake Software
1. As ThinkPoint infection is not giving any access to the Desktop you must restart Windows. Just after Windows boots up, press CTRL + ALT & DEL on your keyboard at once. This should bring up the Windows Task Manager.
2. In the Task Manager window select the Processes tab on the top.
3. Look through the list of processes until you find the hotfix.exe process.
4. Click left mouse button on it and press END PROCESS button situated at the bottom of the Task manager. Windows should ask you to confirm killing the process, select Yes to terminate hotfix.exe .
5. Now ThinkPoint was disabled, and you should restore a normal desktop by clicking File menu on the Task manager, select New Task (Run) and type iexplorer.exe in the OPEN field. This will grant you access to the Internet Explorer.
6. After this you must search and delete the hotfix.exe file on your computer which may be hidden.
7. If after deleting the file and rebooting the pc you’re still left with a blank desktop repeat step 5. You will need to fix various registry settings or use a popular and trustworthy security program.
Source : http://www.pcthreat.com/parasitebyid-13022en.html
Protect Your Computer from Fake security Software
There is an easy way to protect your computer from this fake security software, and that is to simply pay for real security software to protect you. It is not worth the stress time or money it costs when your computer does get attacked.
These things are horrible.
I’ve once had one on my computer called monarona or something similar. And when I got the virus it first just started to do annoying things to my computer, and then a popup came introducing the virus by saying something like “Hi I”m monarona and I am a virus etc. etc.” then I went to google for a solution. And I found some anti-virus program I’ve never seen before. It was maybe 50 dollars. I decide to just get it to get it over with, as I was using a pirated version of some anti-virus.
But it still didn’t fix the virus, so I send the makers of the anti-virus program a message. They replied with a small attachment, which did remove the virus.
Then later when I searched for the virus on google again, I got totally different results. So the virus actually changed what I would see in google.
They are also called rogue security software and they are increasing rapidly. Most of the time when I got infected with these trojans and spywares, I find that the best solution is to format my hard drive to disinfect my computer.