What’s a rogue and why do you need to know?
November 16, 2010 Computer Safety Tip
Rogues will cause you many unwanted computer problems, invade your privacy as well as try and steal your money. 
Rogues will make use of a fake system scan, fake system scan report results as well as fake computer security notifications. You need to know that Rogues will try every single trick that it can in order to try and convince you that you have malicious threats running on your machine.
Rogues may display some of the following symptoms:
- Is your computers performance slower than usual?
- Are you receiving annoying pop ups?
- Are things changing on your machine, that you didn’t change yourself?
- Do you see a scan report that has taken place, which you didn’t start?
- Are you receiving fake scan report results?
- Is your computer generating scary system security notifications?
- Are you being asked to buy a full version in order to rectify these problems?
- Is your internet connection acting differently to usual?
Rogues can cause your entire computer system to malfunction or even crash. If you are offered the full version of any rogue, which promises to remove all the threats on your computer, don’t fall for this. The truth of the matter is that there is no full version; it is all one big scam in order to try and obtain your hard earned money. Rogues are one big malicious plot in order to try and get your money, do not fall for any of it.
In order to remove Rogues from your computer, it is imperative that you make use of a decent antispyware removal product that is able to both detect and automatically remove Rogues for you. You can try the manual removal process, but you need to be warned that if you do something incorrectly, you run the risks of further damaging your already damaged computer.
