www.helpfixpc.com
If you visit HelpFixPc.com expecting its domain to live up to its service, you’re in for a bit of a disappointment. In fact, you’re in for blind rage when you uncover the secret agenda of the website.
Recently, the domain has redirected itself to the RegistryUpdate.com website, which is run by the same owners. The original HelpFixPC.com URL is still active, however, so it’s important that consumers remain aware of the site’s murky nature and reputation.
The website operates under a simple concept. It will offer a free scan of your system, or a downloadable utility, which isn’t all as it seems. Upon downloading or taking the scan, your computer will become infested with alerts and desktop pop-ups which appear via what’s known as the Windows Messenger Service. This can give the third party alerts an appearance of standard system messages, and thus makes them more misleading for the average user.
So what do the alerts say? Normally they will pick out the most ominous sounding warnings imaginable, relaying them back to the user with descriptions of critical system errors, damaged registries and perhaps ironically – malware and viruses.
While some of the messages may in fact be true, the nature of the utility means that they’ll appear, even if your system is wiped completely clean. Why? That would be because the program itself plants them there! It adds malware to your system in the hope that you’ll be foolish enough to listen to the utility’s warnings and splash out on an expensive fix. To make matters worse, the very same fix can be obtained free of charge from Microsoft’s official website. To put things simply, HelpFixPC.com is a fraudulent business doing nothing but harm to its customers, and taking money in the process.
If you have already been struck down by the adware of this website, count yourself lucky. Knowledge of the problem goes 80% of the way towards fixing it. The scam is designed to confuse and mislead, but if you understand the route of the issue, you should have little trouble in correcting it.
A simple scan of the system via a reputable anti-virus suite will clear up most third party threats, including the annoying desktop pop-ups.
This is the strategy to take if you are determined to maintain the system in its current state, for example keeping the same files and version of Windows XP. It is also possible to get rid of the alerts by upgrading to Service Pack 2, which comes without the Windows Messaging Service. Users operating on older versions of Windows can simply disable the Messaging Service and this will get rid of the annoying pop-ups. It is not a solution for the presence of the malware, however.
It is very important that you target and eliminate the infestation itself, rather than simply cloaking it and hoping that it’ll go away in time. It won’t. And even more dangerously, the presence of the adware could open your system to further hacking threats.
Far from being a useful Windows cleaning utility, HelpFixPC.com joins the black list of websites causing more problems than it’s ever capable of fixing. Steer well clear of the scam.
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