{"id":2460,"date":"2011-07-23T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2011-07-23T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:35:19","slug":"windows-7-fix-and-windows-7-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-7-fix-and-windows-7-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 Fix and Windows 7 Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

First of all we want all of you to know that while the title says \t\t\tWindows 7, this article applies to all versions of Windows.<\/p>\n

Windows 7 Fix and Windows 7 Repair sound like really great programs, \t\t\tdon’t they? It sounds like a miracle in a download. But neither \t\t\tWindows 7 Fix or Windows 7 Repair do anything to fix or repair \t\t\tWindows. In fact, if you download either of them, you’ll be in for a \t\t\tlot of trouble and if you’re not careful you may find yourself \t\t\tcalling your credit card company and telling them you’ve been duped.<\/p>\n

Windows 7 Fix and Windows 7 Repair are nothing more than updated \t\t\tversions of rogue security programs (i.e. scareware). They work the \t\t\tsame as the older versions like XP AntiVirus or Windows Security or \t\t\tWindows AntiVirus. They’re all scareware and they all work the same \t\t\tway.<\/p>\n

First you’ll get a warning that your computer is infected. Then \t\t\tyou’ll get a notice that you need to scan your computer now. And \t\t\tusually, whether or not you click “Scan” or “Cancel” or “No Thanks” \t\t\tor try to close the window, you’ll be downloading the program that \t\t\twill “scan” your computer. But while it looks like it’s scanning \t\t\tyour computer, it’s doing nothing of the sort. What it is doing is a \t\t\tmock scan which will always find hundreds of malicious files lurking \t\t\ton your computer – none of which really exist.<\/p>\n

At the end of this mock scan, which looks very real, you’ll see a \t\t\tlink or a button which says “Clean my computer” or “Remove malicious \t\t\tfiles” or some such nonsense. If you click that button you’ll find \t\t\tout that you can’t remove anything until you pay something. And if \t\t\tyou pay something (please don’t!) another mock scan will begin at \t\t\tthe end of which your computer will be declared CLEAN! \t\t\tCongratulations – no malware detected. Of course, there wasn’t any \t\t\tto begin with. The scan to clean your computer is just as fake as \t\t\tthe one that showed your computer was infected with hundreds of \t\t\tmalicious files.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight
\n<\/span> Windows 7 Fix (above) working its evil on a poor, unsuspecting user. \t\t\tLooks official, right?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n \"Cloudeight
\n<\/span> Windows 7 Repair doing its dirty deeds. Both of these “programs” \t\t\tare made by the same bunch.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t fall for this old trick in a new costume. It’s just the same \t\t\told rogue security software (scareware) that’s been plaguing Web \t\t\tvisitors for the last six or seven years. Right now, rogue security \t\t\tsoftware is all the rage with criminals. Unlike computers users a \t\t\tfew years ago, almost everyone now has at least antivirus installed \t\t\tand many have antispyware software installed. So it’s not as easy as \t\t\tit once was for criminals to attack users with viruses, spyware or \t\t\tother kinds of malware. Rogue software is actually real software \t\t\tthat sometimes slips by the best antivirus and antispyware software \t\t\t– sometimes installing undetected.<\/p>\n

If you are ever in a situation where you encounter rogue software do \t\t\tthis:<\/p>\n

1. Don’t attempt to close the window which opens warning you that \t\t\tyou’re infected.
\n2. Immediately close your browser. If you can’t, then go to Task \t\t\tManager\/Processes and right-click the browser’s process (Internet \t\t\tExplorer = iexplore.exe, Chrome=chrome.exe, Firefox = firefox.exe) \t\t\tand choose “End Process Tree”. Ignore the warning and click OK.
\n3. If that doesn’t work, shutdown your computer.
\n4. If you make a mistake and download the rogue, don’t panic. Just \t\t\tshutdown your computer, reboot into Safe Mode by tapping the F8 key \t\t\twhile Windows is booting. Once you are at the Safe Mode menu choose \t\t\tSafe Mode with command prompt<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

5. When safe mode with command prompt has loaded, enter the \t\t\tfollowing at the cursor prompt:\u00a0 \t\t\tRSTRUI.EXE<\/p>\n

6. Wait until System Restore has fully loaded (sometimes it can take \t\t\tseveral minutes). Choose a restore point prior to the time you \t\t\tdownloaded the scareware\/rogue. Restore you computer.<\/p>\n

When you’re computer reboots, there won’t be trace of the \t\t\tscareware\/rogue. It will be as if it never even happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all we want all of you to know that while the title says Windows 7, this article applies to all versions of Windows. Windows 7 Fix and Windows 7 Repair sound like really great programs, don’t they? It sounds like a miracle in a download. But neither Windows 7 Fix or Windows 7 Repair do anything\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1339,1337,1338,1275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2461,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}