Help needed! Is Personal Security.Exe comes pre-installed in Win7?

Hello guys,

I was looking at my spam msgs in my yahoomail then I accidentally clicked a link that says to download Personal Security. The moment the software got installed, my computer starts getting viruses, worms, malwares, trojans, spywares, and the like. All these made my firewall notification turn to red and saying that there is no anti-virus detected even if I have the Avast! Pro Edition. I noticed that my desktop icons are slowly being deleted. I panicked 'cos I had the similar experience before that made me reformat. I am guessing the spam contains an installer link comprised of a cesspool of viruses. I used Revo Uninstaller and deleted PSecurity to the brim. I run Avast! Boot-scan and fortunately didn't detect any viruses 'cos of Revo, perhaps.

As soon as I am in my normal desktop again with all the icons retrieved, I searched psecurity.exe in the find and search, and felt glad that I didn't see any, even a sheer trace of it. Anyway, I checked the toolbar located in the task bar for the reason of customising those icons whether to show icon and notifications, hide icon and show notifications, or only show notifications. When I was scrolling down, I saw psecurity.exe again with its settings set to only show notifications. The logo is exactly the same as the one I deleted containing viruses.

Now, my computer is working fine just like before but I wonder what is really psecurity.exe? WHy did it disable my anti-virus the moment I clicked and installed a viral link? Plus, it kept on asking to remove the virus by activating a licensed code to paid via credit card, and if I don't my system will be contaminated by the virus until the need to reformat arises.

Pls enlighten me on this

Thanks in advance

 

Not quite sure what it is you are asking. I mean, I hope you do understand that PSecurity.exe is just another one of those silly pieces of malware designed to get the stupid to pay money and give away their credit card information so that they can become victims of identity theft to boot.

Since you installed this crap, or at least intentionally disabled all of the security systems of your Windows OS in such a way as to make it as easy as possible for such crapware to install itself, I have to assume that this is what you wanted in the first place. While I find it somewhat strange for a person to practically beg for being a victim of this kind of transparent fraud, far be it from me to judge such strange predilections...

 

I am not begging "for being a victim of this transparent fraud" and I didn't intentionally disable my security systems, Personal Security did. Kindly read my concern as it seems that your comment is off-tangent and misaligned. Try not to insert such sarcasms. Thank you (^^)

 

That is entirely impossible. Unless you were logged in with administrative privileges and had UAC turned off, the scenario you described cannot occur.

 

Hey guys,
I have problems with this Personal Security thing. I am not sure what it is.... O searched it and I found this site personal security It says that Personal Security is rogue antispyware....
They say that I have to remove these files: psecurity.exe, win32extension.dll

But how can I do that??? I can not delete them...

Can some one help me on this???
thxs

 

Have you tried rebooting into safe mode and running a scan with avast?

 

Avast have thought of this, so no it didnt.

 

Have you tried Malwarebytes'Antimalware?
Reboot in to safe mode with networking (after restarting the computer; press F8 immediately after the Bios screen), download it here, update the program and let it scan.

 

Yea well users always like to say: Windows has no defenses! when they are the ones pressing the run and the yes to UAC.
My question is WHY would you download and run something as unheard of as personal security.exe?

 

Agreed with the above posters, you must have had stuff disabled, otherwise there would have been a security prompt before anything viral ever hit your computer.

 

I had antivirus software. That was Avast...

Hey Baserk thats I will try

 

Yeah, I agree. Malwarebytes is effective. It will clean-up and remove all the malwares in your pc including the personalsecurity.exe.

What about Avast? I am also using Avast but the professional edition, what about yours?

 

Users are the first line of defense against malware, antivirus are the last.
Just because you have police in your local district doesn't mean you don't practice security safety.

 

Sorry I was careless. The moment I read personal security, I thought it would be beneficial to my notebook's usage and additional defence

 

The fact that said message was in your spam folder should have tipped you off. I don't know how Yahoo handle spam but on my Gmail account, only mails from reputed security companies make it through. Everything else goes directly in my spam box.

 

Always do a little bit of research before installing something you've never heard of.

 

Realy? I think I should start switching to Gmail then...

 

I concur Gmail Spam Filter is very very good.
The high storage capacity makes it even better.

 

Thanks for the advice. I will surely pay heed to that