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Malware Minute: Windows Emergency System (Fake)

GFI Vipre / April 19, 2011

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.

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Malware Minute: Fake System Defrag

GFI Vipre / April 6, 2011

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.

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