Clever marketing equals a dangerous rogue
September 15, 2011 Computer Safety Tip
Personal Shield Pro is the newest rogue to emanate from the MS Removal Tool family of rogueware. The developers behind 
Personal Shield Pro have certainly improved on its design and distribution, using genuine looking GUIs and employing drive-by downloads as part of Personal Shield Pro’s online marketing campaign. However this rogue manages to infiltrate your PC, there should be no doubt about the importance to get rid of Personal Shield Pro straight away.
This rogue definitely does not break new ground in its infection tactics, but Personal Shield Pro should be noted for its persistent dedication to gain access to its victims’ PCs. Personal Shield Pro uses browser hijacking websites, fake online malware scanners and infected online flash ads as part of its online distribution. Once it manages to securely root itself Personal Shield Pro will edit registry entries so that it launches each time the user logs on to Windows.
It will spam the user with fake security scans and falsely generated security alerts, all informing him that his system is under attack. Personal Shield Pro will also go on to block the user’s access to the Internet, generating the following alert each time the user tries to connect to the Internet:
Personal Shield Pro Firewall Alert
Personal Shield Pro Firewall has blocked a program from accessing the internet.
Internet Explorer Internet Browser is infected with worm Lsas.Blaster.Keylogger. This worm is trying to send your credit card details using Internet Explorer Internet Browser to connect to remote host.
Other symptoms related to the Personal Shield Pro infection range from extremely poor system performance to increased erratic system behavior. Users have also complained about being unable to launch their applications on the infected PC.
In order to disable these annoying symptoms, and make it easier to delete Personal Shield Pro from the system enter the following activation code into the rogue:
8945315-6548431
This will only disable the rogue’s annoying symptoms, but will not erase Personal Shield Pro from the system. You will need to obliterate Personal Shield Pro by using a powerful security tool to ensure you get rid of Personal Shield Pro 100%. Investing in a powerful security tool will also protect your PC against similar attacks in future.
