GuardPcs

GuardPcs is a misleading computer program, in some cases may be incorrectly referred to as a virus. Since GuardPcs is not a virus, it does not have the reproductive ability, but may cause illegal money transaction and even private data theft.

Most misleading programs (GuardPcs is not excluded) has a Trojan horse component, through which user is mislead to install rogue program. Furthermore, during installation, a number of files will be dropped in Windows system directory, so that later they could be detected and treated as viruses. The name of each dropped file is indefinite - scattered sequence of numbers and letters. Here is an example of such file names:

• 4d9fzparse25959.cpl
• 4d90downlo5dzr2444.bin

Right after GuardPcs has been installed, simulated computer scan will be launched, which will finish system check in a very short time. Immediately after computer scan, a report with virus-like name entries will be generated, where each threat title is motivated by the file name that was dropped by a Trojan.

The essential feature of all misleading applications - a large amount of warning messages that alert user about computer security breaches and lead to rogue program purchase. Such messages usually carry false content, stating that the computer is infected with a viruses. In this case, acting on any of those messages, GuardPcs will be suggested as anti-virus tool, which has to be purchased in order to activate removal function.

GuardPcs licensed version is useless, accordingly, cash transfers are worthless. GuardPcs is not capable to remove computer viruses and other threats, even after the purchase.