Badware Protector is a rogue program that promote itself as antivirus and antispyware program to “Stay protected from the latest threats.” Badware Protector was created in the tradition of XP Antivirus 2008 which issues fake scan results after it performs an automatic scanning of the computer.

Aliases:
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Risk Level: Medium

File Size: Varies

Affected System: Windows

Common Symptoms:
1. Presence of registry entries:
O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [0113DE8367022C285A1AF91E4E1C285C] C:\Documents and Settings\Bleeping\Desktop\badware-protector.exe