Security Tool is a dangerous rogue antimalware application which is cloned from Total Security 2009. It uses fraudulent methods to trick users into purchasing a software license for its so-called ‘full’ version. The main method this program will use is to scare you with fake notifications, and fake popups. Check here Security Tool Removal to learn how to remove Security tool.
The way you will get Security Tool on your computer is via Trojans. You will get them from compromised websites that are promoting fake online scanners. The next thing they will do will be to hijack your browser. Your browser will get re-directions to some download links that will install (after downloading it) Security Tool. Another method that Security Tool uses to invade user systems is to redirect the user to 2tvtube.com or a2tv.com which are both fake websites. On those sites, the used is asked to download a video codec which seems to be a Flash application. Rather than installing a video codec, once you’re going to download that file, you will rather download and install Security Tool. Anothe way used to install that spyware is to redirect the end-user to a given webpage with a title as “My Computer Online Scan”, That site will pretend to be an online system scan of My Computer. If you do try such website, you will get results claiming that your “My Computer” folder is infected with a very bad spyware. Then a choice (Yes, No) will be given to you. Selecting either of those choices will result in having Security Tool being downloaded and installed on your computer. This site Remove Security Tool Windows 7 has all the infos you do need if you want to remove Security Tool when having Windows 7 on your PC while here How to Remove Security Tool you will learn how to remove Security Tool.
Once it has infected a computer system, this spyware will stay resident in memory whenever you do log into Windows. It will then do some totally fake system scan of your system. You will then get many warnings, alerts, and more telling your that your computer system has been compromised by lots of viruses. Such examples of those alerts are “Your Computer is infected” or “Warning! 55 viruses found!”. Sometimes, you will get warnings about your browser with messages like “Spyware.IEMonster activity detected”.
Such malware will also try to steal personal infos (like passwords) from your IE, Firefox, Outlook and others applications. You might also get alerts like “Click here to remove it immediately with Security Tool’ or also “Security Tool Warning: Some critical system files of your computer were modified by malicious program” . It may cause system instability and data loss. Click here to block unauthorized modification by removing threats (Recommended)”. Sometimes your PC might not even detect any USB flash drives that are connected to it because Security Tool has compromised your system a lot. When Security Tool is present on your PC, you will get many warning popups on your Windows Taskbar.
So the moment you want to take into account what Security Tool is telling you and you are ready to clean your PC, this malware will say that the actual version you have is but a trial one that cannot remove all those threats and that you need to upgrade to the full version (a paying one). Whatever you do and no matter how much you end up paying, the full registered version of Security Tool won’t delete a single virus or threat from your computer system because those threats reported did not even exist first of all. So it is very important for you to stay way from this scam.
The easiest way to delete Security Tool is to use a good and 100% legit antivirus program (or a good web service) that will scan your system and clean it.
