Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Remove Windows Privacy Counsel virus

Windows Privacy Counsel is a fake security program from the same family of malware as Windows Custom Safety, Windows Maintenance Suite, etc. It simulates a system scan and reports false system security threats to make you think your computer is infected with trojans, spyware, adware, worms and other malicious software. Remember, the program created to make troubles for a computer user and does not protect your machine in any way! Thus, never trust anything relate to Windows Privacy Counsel and uninstall it as soon as possible.



What Windows Privacy Counsel does

The program is promoted and installed with the help of trojans that are mostly distributed via fake online scanners, misleading websites and using social engineering. When started, Windows Privacy Counsel configures itself to start automatically when Windows loads. Next, it will perform a fake system scan and detect a lot of infections that can only be removed with a full version of the program.



Obviously, such results are a fraud, the program want to scare you into thinking that your computer is infected with malicious software. So, you can safety ignore the scan results.

While Windows Privacy Counsel is running, it will flood your computer with fake security alert and notifications from Windows task bar. However, all the alerts are totally fabricated and must by no means be trusted! You can safety ignore them. Moreover, the rogue will disable Task Manager, block antivirus and antispyware tools from running.

As you can see, the program is absolutely useless and what is more, even dangerous software. Most importantly, do not purchase it. Instead, please use the Windows Privacy Counsel removal steps in order to remove this malware from your computer for free.

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