System Tool 2011

System Tool 2011 with an alias System Tool is a virus made to look like a legitimate anti-virus program but in reality it was a piece of fake application or commonly known as rogue security program. It will arrived on computers as a recommended virus removal tool from a fake online virus scanners. Instead of getting rid of computer threats, victims will experienced a more disturb computer system. A continuous pop-up alerts will be displayed accompanied by a promotion to get the licensed version of System Tool 2011. Some Windows functionality will be rendered unusable like task manager, registry editor and control panel. This was intended to prevent users from removing System Tool 2011 manually.

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What are the symptoms of an infected computer?

It’s not always easy to tell if your computer has been compromised. More than ever before, the authors of viruses, worms, Trojans and spyware are going to great lengths to hide their code and conceal what their programs are doing on an infected computer.

 It’s very difficult to provide a list of characteristic symptoms of a compromised computer because the same symptoms can also be caused by hardware and/or software problems. Here are just a few examples:

• Your computer behaves strangely, i.e. in a way that you haven’t seen before.
• You see unexpected messages or images.
• You hear unexpected sounds, played at random.
• Programs start unexpectedly.
• Your personal firewall tells you that an application has tried to connect to the Internet (and it’s not a program that you ran).

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