ComClean

ComClean is the latest rogue antispyware, fresh from Korea! ComClean has been distributed quite actively these days. Just like its predecessors: MedicCop or HomeProtect, ComClean may infiltrate a computer system covertly, without the users’ knowledge or consent.

All this secret infiltration is done with a help of Trojans and usually via security exploits within the computer system in question. ComClean rogue anti-spyware also has the ability to launch once the PC is rebooted.

The changes caused by simply having ComClean on a system will alert any computer user to its actual presence within the infected machine.

Once embedded within a computer system, ComClean will bombard the user with displays of its fake scanners, pop-up advertisements and fake security notifications.

The fake scanners make use of additional and alternative malware (affiliates of ComClean) to convince the unsuspecting user that their system is in fact infected. However, important to bear in mind is the fact that the only real threat to any PC at this time – is the ComClean application itself.

ComClean possesses the following properties:
- ComClean is a corrupt Anti-Spyware program
- ComClean may spread via Trojans
- ComClean may display fake security messages
- ComClean may install additional spyware to your computer
- ComClean may repair its files, spread or update by itself
- ComClean violates your privacy and compromises your security

ComClean is considered a rogue anti-spyware application for a number of reasons, a few being that ComClean tends to display the following tactics:

- False positives/fake alerts:
As a rogue anti-spyware, ComClean may produce a large number of false positives or use fake alerts, noting that your computer is infected with spyware parasites or other threats that do not really exist.

- Copycat looks:
Rogue anti-spyware may copy the look and feel of other legitimate or rogue anti-spyware applications. Often, rogue anti-spyware applications may appear as close clones of other rogue anti-spyware software. (in this case, ComClean is a replica of other forms of rogue software

- High pressure marketing:
Rogue anti-spyware may use scare tactics or other aggressive advertising and marketing tactics to try to trick you into buying the rogue anti-spyware application. Often, rogue anti-spyware may produce false positives and fake alerts about your computer being infected.

- Poor detection/scan reporting:
Rogue anti-spyware may produce poor reports when it scans your PC. For example, rogue anti-spyware may say your computer is infected 11 parasites, but not specify which spyware parasites or what type of parasites. Rogue anti-spyware may also report that your PC is infected with ComClean, but not tell you which related files; DLLS, etc. were found on your computer.

- Weak scanning/detection:
Rogue anti-spyware may not only poorly report on computer infection, but rogue antispyware may also poorly scan your PC. Rogue anti-spyware may skip over important folders and files of your computer that should be scanned to detect spyware.

ComClean is sneaky, and may hide itself within registry files on an infected system, therefore there are a few sure ways to tell whether your system may be in jeopardy of infection.

The above mentioned symptoms are sure tell-tale signs of the presence of rogue software, therefore on will need to remove the likes of ComClean and all its components, as soon as it has been detected within a computer system.