Your Protection
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Your Protection is the name of a rogue anti-virus program, and in particular, Your Protection is further categorized as scareware. Do not let the name fool you; Your Protection cannot protect you. It's a scam, and infections with Your Protection can be traced to an origin in Russia in early April 2010. Furthermore, typical of the fact that these rogue anti-virus applications never seem to be anything new, Your Protection is essentially the same malware as Dr. Guard and User Protection.
How Your Protection Works?
The tactics that Your Protection uses to try to defraud its victims are pretty standard, for the most part. Your Protection usually sneaks its way onto a computer with the help of a Trojan. The way it works is that while you browse the Internet, you come across or download a file that seems harmless, like a plugin or update, and the Trojan is hidden in that file. Once the Trojan is on your computer, it downloads Your Protection. Then Your Protection goes to work trying to scare you, while it hampers your ability to use your computer.The most noticeable things about Your Protection are its bogus interface and its constant warning messages. Your Protection has this fake home screen, which is very bare-bones and uses a lot of gray, but which nonetheless tries to look as if it is the home screen of a real anti-virus program. There is even a phone number in the lower left, which you are supposed to be able to call for live support –- but the number is as fake as everything else about Your Protection. It's unregistered, with an area code and prefix assigned to Gary, Indiana. So, forget about calling for "live support".
The home screen is also the location of some of the fake warnings about infections, since it is where Your Protection will run its fake system scans. These fake scans are accompanied by fake lists of results, which will always claim that Your Protection found some very dangerous viruses on your computer. The pop-up warnings that Your Protection frequently causes make similar false claims, and will tell you that your computer is being attacked by someone trying to steal your passwords, or that your computer has become infected with an especially dangerous virus that was just detected. No matter how the fake warnings are presented, they come with the recommendation that you buy the "full" version of Your Protection in order to deal with the supposed threats.
A Word of Caution About Your Protection
One extra feature that Your Protection has which helps to make it extra dangerous is that it will disable your real anti-virus software and even attempt to uninstall it! This obviously leaves your computer open to all kinds of other infections. Ironically, Your Protection actively works towards the opposite of what it says it does, and encourages more parasites to infect the system.Your Protection ultimately has nothing to offer, since even if you purchase a license for it, it behaves in the same way and does not ever gain the ability to do anything useful. Your Protection cannot scan for viruses, perceive threats, or do anything about threats. Also, remember that you do not have to pay money to the con-artists who made Your Protection in order to remove it from your computer!
To check your computer for Your Protection, download
SpyHunter Spyware Detection Tool.
SpyHunter spyware detection tool is only a scanner meant to assist you in detecting Your Protection and other threats. If you detect the presence of Your Protection on your PC, you have the opportunity to purchase the SpyHunter removal tool to remove any traces of Your Protection.
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Detection of Your Protection (Recommended)
Your Protection is difficult to detect and remove. Your Protection is not likely to be removed through a convenient "uninstall" feature. Your Protection, as well as other spyware, can re-install itself even after it appears to have been removed.
You also run the risk of damaging your computer since you're required to find and delete sensitive files in your system such as DLL files and registry keys. It is recommended you use a good spyware remover to remove Your Protection and other spyware, adware, trojans and viruses on your computer.
Run a Your Protection scan/check to successfully detect all Your Protection files with the SpyHunter Spyware Detection Tool. If you wish to remove Your Protection, you can either purchase the SpyHunter spyware removal tool to remove Your Protection or follow the Your Protection manual removal method provided in the "Remedies and Prevention" section.
Method of Infection
There are many ways your computer could get infected with Your Protection. Your Protection can come bundled with shareware or other downloadable software.
Another method of distributing Your Protection involves tricking you by displaying deceptive pop-up ads that may appear as regular Windows notifications with links which look like buttons reading Yes and No. No matter which "button" that you click on, a download starts, installing Your Protection on your system. Your Protection installs on your computer through a trojan and may infect your system without your knowledge or consent.
If you think you may already be infected with Your Protection, use this SpyHunter Spyware dectection tool to detect Your Protection and other common Spyware infections. After detection of Your Protection, the next advised step is to remove Your Protection with the purchase of the SpyHunter Spyware removal tool.
Symptoms
Your Protection may attempt to change your computer's desktop, hijack your browser, monitor your Internet browsing activities, change system files, and can do this without your knowledge or permission. Therefore, it is strongly recommended to remove all traces of Your Protection from your computer.
Remedies and Prevention
Your Protection, as well as other Spyware, are constantly evolving and becoming more advanced to avoid detection. Your Protection along with its variants can install in different locations and even when you try to uninstall it you find they reappear when you reboot your computer.
Install a good anti-spyware software
When there's a large number of traces of Spyware, for example Your Protection, that have infected a computer, the only remedy may be to automatically run a Spyware scan from a good anti-spyware software designed to detect Your Protection and other types of spyware.
Remove Your Protection manually
Another method to remove Your Protection is to manually delete Your Protection files in your system. Detect and remove the following Your Protection files:
Processes
- C:\Program Files\Your Protection\urpprot.exe
Registry Keys
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Your Protection
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Your Protection
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Your Protection
External links
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- Remove Your Protection - Easy Your Protection removal steps. Parasite database on how to remove spyware and rogue anti-spyware programs.
- McAfee Threat Center - Library of detailed information on viruses.
- How Spyware And The Weapons Against It Are Evolving
- Crimeware: Trojans & Spyware
- Windows System Update - Latest bug fixes for Microsoft Windows
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