Malware Minute: Fake System Defrag

April 6, 2011
GFI Vipre

By GFI Software

Windows Restore is a fake system defragmenter, lurking on the internet intended to infect computer after computer. Scammers created Windows Restore to look like a useful PC performance enhancing tool, yet it is in fact a type of virus called a rogue.

If Windows Restore has infected your computer, you will most liekly experience the following:

Slow or sluggish PC
Windows Restore will pop up on your screen, interrupting you continually
Windows Restore will report multiple issues with the PC, which are all fake
You will be bombarded with alerts and warning
You may not be able to open other files or programs, instead you will see warnings saying application is infected
You may not be able to access the internet
Your web browser may redirect to unwanted web pages

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