www.registryupdate.com
For all of its promises of system stability, performance boost and faster start-ups, the software at WWW.REGISTRYUPDATE.COM is to be steered well clear of.
It should be avoided on the principle that the utility will cause you more harm than good, and will try to nudge you towards wasting your money by the most underhand means possible. Upon downloading the package, you will begin to receive desktop pop-ups from what’s known as the Windows Messaging Service.
Don’t be misled by the title. The Windows Messaging Service has absolutely nothing to do with the instant messaging applications that you might be using. It isn’t related to MSN or AIM. Its actual purpose is to serve up small pop-ups, which come from the operating system itself.
This can be extremely confusing for the non-informed consumer, especially when the alerts are highlighting critical errors and system threats which don’t exist. The only corruption on the system is coming from the utility which springs the pop-ups in the first place!
Devised by developers who are essentially third party scammers, you will be asked to stump up cash for a standard Microsoft patch, when it’s freely available through the Microsoft website. And this is just to fix the problem that downloading the utility caused in the first place, without even touching on the errors that inspired you to search for a registry cleaning application.
The pop-ups will generally consist of a dire warning about your system’s security, a note of what could happen if it remains unfixed, and a link to one of the many scam sites which will take away with your hard earned money for providing what is essentially a free fix to their own infection. It’s far from the respectable free utility that the website would have you believe.
In fact, if we look a little deeper in to the past of the RegistryUpdate owners, it’s apparent that the scammers are under investigation for the distribution of child pornography. Now there’s something they don’t include in the testimonials.
There is a simple way of disabling the Messaging System alerts, although it is not a fix for the infection itself.
Go to Start, and open the Run box.
Type “services msc” and the Windows Service menu will open up.
Disable the Windows Messenger Service and the alerts will disappear. This will go a long way to soothing your temper, but it is only hiding the real problem.
If you wish to get rid of both the alerts AND the RegistryUpdate malware, it is necessary to run a thorough scan of the system – and not a scan from a shady third party like the business in question! Use your anti-virus suite of choice or download a reputable scanning application to remove the malware, and this should clear up the infection.
It has also been reported that upgrading to Windows XP Service Pack 2 will remove the pop-ups from the desktop, although similarly to disabling the process manually, there will still be traces of the malware on the system. This makes the computer more vulnerable to attacks, so it’s important that you act to remove all traces of the infection.
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