Your Computer might be at Risk!
“Your Computer might be at Risk!” is a pop up being generated by a rogue program to scare computer users about a presence of infection and virus threats. It will declare a detection of virus and security risks even though computer is free from it. The full message reads:
Your Computer might be at Risk!
Viruses have been detected!
Possible:
-Unauthorized access to your files, documents.
-Stealing from your banking accounts.
-Reading your private correspondence.
-Spam-mailing from your PC
Highly recommended to destroy them immediately.
“Your Computer might be at Risk!” Pop up Screen Shot:
The same type of alert is displayed on computers being attacked by a fake program Desktop Security 2010. Instead a different approach was used. See image below.
Your computer might be at risk
Antivirus detects viruses, worms and Trojan horses. They can (and do) destroy data, format your hard disk or can destroy BIOS. By destroying the BIOS many times you end up buying a new motherboard or fi the bios chip is removable then that chip would.
Associated Threat: Desktop Security 2010
Systems Affected: Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7
Your Computer might be at Risk! Removal:
Typical virus removal:
A simple virus removal from this website is provided to guide you in getting rid of this fake alert and other related files.
1. Temporarily Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP/Vista/7) . [how to]
2. Update the virus definitions.
3. Restart Windows in SafeMode [how to] 4. Run a full system scan and clean/delete all infected file(s)
5. In order to make sure that threat is completely eliminated, carry out a full scan of your system using AntiVirus and Antispyware Software. Another way to remove viruses using various Antivirus Program without the need to install the full program can be done with Online Virus Scanner.
Removal Tool:
1. Remove “Your Computer might be at Risk!” associated files from a computer by scanning with anti-malware program. We highly recommend SuperAntiSpyware. Click here to download SAS. Install it on infected computer, update the database and do a full scan of the system.