Saturday, 4 December 2010

new rogue: PCoptimizer 2010

As already stated in my previous post, there are two new rogues (rogue security software, rogueware) lurking around:

PrivacyGuard 2010 and PCoptimizer 2010

You can be presented with either of these GUIs:


PrivacyGuard 2010 (picture: BleepingComputer)



PCoptimizer 2010


If you execute any program, you can be presented with the following pop-up:


PCoptimizer 2010 pop-up


I also made a small video on how you can disable this rogue and access your programs again. In this video I targeted PCoptimizer 2010, but you can also apply these steps on PrivacyGuard 2010.