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SecurityTool

Published: October 5, 2009 Reading time: 1 min

SecurityTool is rogue antivirus software — a scareware scam built to take money, not to protect a PC. It belongs to the same late-2000s wave of fake “security suites” that flooded Windows desktops with false positives and purchase prompts. Symptoms If a machine is infected you typically see continuous pop-ups and system warnings claiming the PC is infected, urging you to buy SecurityTool. Those alerts are false. Paying does not clean infections or prevent new ones; SecurityTool is the infection. ...

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