XP-Shield

[ Posted on May 15 2008 by Kenny, Under: Latest Threats ]
XP-Shield or XP-Shield 2.1 is a fake anti-spyware program that uses deviation to get computer users to purchase the full XP-Shield program. XP-Shield was reviled to be a complete fake because it does not remove any type of spyware from your computer. XP-Shield puts on a front when it scans your system for parasites. The scan results have a list of parasites that are not present on the scanned hard drive. With this finding it goes to show that XP-Shield is not a legitimate program and should not...

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One Response to “XP-Shield”

  1. By Michael Kimes on Sep 17, 2008 | Reply

    I didn’t download xp-shield but I did get a nuisance pop up program injected into my system when i downloaded a game. I started getting popups stating that I had system errors and my email program would start up pointing to xp-shield. com to download the spyware scanner. I had a hard time getting rid of the popups. Upon going through the startup programs I found a couple of entries in the registry regarding a file called sysc.dll in C:\programfiles\common files\designer that seemed suspicious. I tried deleting and changing the entries but they kept reappearing. I tried to delete the sysc.dll file but but received a message that the program was running and it wouldn’t delete. I was able to rename the file sysc.drr and the problem stopped. Hope this info may help someone.

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