Clone of malicous rogue’s removal proving difficult

Posted by Denny under Rogue Anti-Spyware

If you are in the market for a powerful and effective defragger then System Fix is a tool you will want to avoid. This rogue derives from the same family of rogues as FakeHDD and is relentless in its pursuit to rip its victims off. Of course System Fix manages to successfully convince its victims of its supposed authenticity by making use of authentic looking GUIs and other tactics. The important thing to remember is to get rid of System Fix the moment it is detected on your PC, and not to believe any correspondence received from this rogue.

System Fix uses browser hijacking websites, bogus online scanners and infected online flash ads as a part of its online marketing campaign. Once it manages to successfully root itself in the system it will edit registry entries so that it will launch each time the user logs on to Windows. This fake system scan will pretend to scan the PC’s RAM Memory, System Drive as well as the Registry. It will then purport that there are many errors plaguing these sections and that it will fix them, once the user pays for System Fix.

Shortly following the user will receive the following fake system alerts:

Activation Reminder
Data Restore Activation
Advanced module activation required to fix detected errors and performance issues. Please purchase Advanced Module license to activate this software and enable all features.

System Error
An error occurred while reading system files. Run a system diagnostic utility to check your hard disk drive for errors.

Hard Drive Failure
The system has detected a problem with one or more installed IDE / SATA hard disks. It is recommended that you restart the system.

This is also meant to further panic and annoy the user into simply parting with his money for System Fix’s worthless software. Upon closer inspection of the fake alerts it will be easy to see that you are dealing with a fake defragmenter as it claims that the HD failed. If this is indeed the case then the PC would not be able to function at all.

Other annoying symptoms associated with the System Fix infection range from users being unable to launch web browsers due to Desktop and Start menu shortcuts having been disabled. Users have also complained about increased erratic system behavior and extremely poor system performance. Disable these annoying symptoms and destroy System Fix by entering the following activation key:

1203978628012489708290478989147

Take back control of your PC and destroy System Fix immediately using a powerful security tool. This will also help protect your system against similar future attacks.