Personal Security Removal Guide

With all the time and development the developers of Personal Security has invested in their latest rogue, many users now find it difficult to identify Personal Security as the fraudulent and fake application that it is. This rogue, which derives from the same family of rogueware as the Cyber Security scam, this program promotes itself through the use disgusting browser hijacking websites and bogus online malware scanners. It promotes itself as a genuine security tool able to detect and remove threats and infections from the PC, when in reality this is simply untrue. Despite what Personal Security would like you to believe, it is unable to protect the system against any type of threat, and is nothing more than a malicious application in itself.

Personal Security will enter the system surreptitiously and will remain hidden until it is ready to start its attack against the system. This will happen by Personal Security initiating a fake system scan each time the user logs on to Windows. This scan will inevitably report on fake security threats being present on the system. In reality all the falsely reported threats do not even exist, and is only used as a ploy to further trick the user into thinking his PC is under attack.

As a further attack, Personal Security will spam the user with various falsely generated security threats in the form of pop up messages. These pop up messages will also inform the user that his system is under attack, and should also be disregarded. Some of the more popular fake alerts to be on the lookout for include the following:

Privacy violation alert!
Personal Security has detected numerous privacy violations. Some programs may send your private data to an untrusted internet host. Click here to permanently block this activity and remove the possible threat (Recommended)

System files modification alert!
Important system files of your computer may be modified by malicious program. It may cause system instability and data loss. Click here to block unauthorized modification and remove potential threats (Recommended).

Internal conflict alert!
Personal Security has detected internal software conflict. Some application endeavors to access system kernel (such behavior is typical for spyware/malware). Click here to prevent system crash and remove potential threats (Recommended)

Spyware activity alert!
Spyware.IEMonster is a popular spyware that attempts to steal passwords from Web browsers, e-mail clients and other programs, including login information from online banking sessions, billing pages, CC transactions, etc. It may also create special tracking files to log your activity and compromise your Internet privacy. It is strongly recommended to prevent this threat immediately. Click here to get protection against Spyware.IEMonster.

As well as:

Privacy Violation alert!
Personal Security detected a Privacy Violation. A program is secretly sending your private data to an untrusted internet host. Click here to block this activity by removing the threat (Recommended).

System files modification alert!
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).

Personal Security will go will go on to display a fake screen on the PC which pretends to be a system crash, or the Blue Screen of Death, which states the the system is infected with:

SPYWARE.MONSTER.FX_WILD_0x00000000

It will then state that the PC has crashed due to the above malware, and will then pretend to reboot the system. You should remember that this is a fake screen saver, and the crash and reboot is not real. It will also go on to hijack Internet Explorer so that t displays a warning message when you open the browser, stating:

This website has been reported as unsafe.
We strongly recommend to discontinue the use of this website.
This website has been report to Microsoft for containing threats that might steal personal or financial information from your computer.

When all is said and done, Personal Security is a fake and malicious application only out to rip you off. It will damage your PC irreversibly in the process, unless you destroy Personal Security in time. Do this by making use of the removal power of a genuine security tool which will offer adequate protection in future against similar attacks.