RegProScan.com is a website which claims to offer a comprehensive free scan of your hard drive to highlight registry errors and boost the performance of your system. In actual fact it is a fraudulent source of malware which will leave you with more problems than you had before you started!So how can this be so? Surely you’d know if you were downloading corruptive malware on to your system, right? Unfortunately, many users are oblivious to the means in which third party scammers will go about getting their adware on to our systems. What looks like an innocuous scanning utility is actually adware in disguise. When we download and install it, the hacker has succeeded in finding a platform for his advertisements – which more often than not, are used against us from the outset.This is exactly the case with RegProScan. After the user has completed a “free” scan of the registry, the software will return a list of errors and an ultimate solution to fix them all. The solution will typically involve buying an application to fix the problems via the same website that ran the scan. In other cases, affiliates websites will be used or sites that are run by the same owners.This would be fair enough if the program actually delivered what it said. We can’t speak negatively of web services which offer a free scan and then a paid solution – as long as it isn’t taking advantage of the unwitting user.

However, in the case of RegProScan.com, the same can’t be said. Here is a website which will plant errors and adware pop-ups on your system, just so that it can advertise a fix for them! But the fix isn’t anything that the developers have worked tirelessly on. The fix serves only to remove the adware pop-ups from the desktop.

They will look like this;

STOP! WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.

Windows has found 55 Critical System Errors.

To fix the errors please do the following:

1. Download Registry Update from: www.regproscan.com
2. Install Registry Update
3. Run Registry Update
4. Reboot your computer

FAILURE TO ACT NOW MAY LEAD TO SYSTEM FAILURE!

Now put yourself in the shoes of somebody who doesn’t have the greatest knowledge of malware threats and the methods used by hackers to attack a system. It’s quite a warning, especially when it comes via the in-built Windows Messenger Service. This means that the error is dressed to look like it comes from Windows rather than an Internet pop-up, which most people are accustomed to dealing with.

It’s easy to get rid of the problem, but you have to be able to detect it in the first place. Unfortunately, many people are taken back by the explicit warnings and do exactly as the scammers have planned. They go to the web sites and download the software to fix the problem. The pop-ups will disappear, but the malware will remain in place. This opens up other opportunities for hackers to attack the system. And of course, the poor soul sat at their desktop has just paid to get rid of the pop-ups that they unwillingly added when they ran the free scan.

To put it bluntly, RegProScan.com is a waste of your time, and a waste of lot of money from its scamming ways. With any luck, the website will be pulled down shortly. Until then, mark it down on your blacklist and avoid at all costs.

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