Malware Minute: Windows Emergency System (Fake)

By GFI Vipre

Windows Emergency System is not a Microsoft application, but a fake created by scammers designed to infect PC after PC in hopes of tricking people into buying the software.

If your PC has been infected with Windows Emergency System, you may be wondering where you picked up such a nasty program. Most likely it was downloaded from malicious advertisements on a webpage you visited, or when you clicked a link and landed on a random web page and the program began downloading without your consent. Many times a rogue or fake program, such as Windows Emergency System, will show a fictitious warning stating that your PC is infected, if you click on the window it will immediately download the virus. If you would have been running a good antivirus software, it would have blocked this virus from infecting you computer.

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