Trojan-Spy.HTML.Visafraud.a

Despite the extended efforts of the very industry geared towards helping consumers maintain the health and privacy of their computer systems, developers of rogue security tools still achieve immense success in frightening consumers into paying for worthless software. Part of the reason for their success is for the dramatic, yet completely fabricated security notifications employed by these criminals in order to panic consumers. One such example is Trojan-Spy.HTML.Visafraud.a, a bogus threat referred to in a Security Essentials 2011 popup security message.

Security Essentials 2011 has become synonymous with harmful rogueware out to mislead and extort consumers. Making use of various scare tactics, including imitating infection symptoms on its victims’ PCs while blaming it on “legitimate” infections and to bombarding users with relentless fake security messages which informs them of dire threats and infections on their systems. The Trojan-Spy.HTML.Visafraud.a is only one such fakely referred to threat in a long line of bogus notifications aimed at scaring consumers into parting with their money.

The complete security notification in question reads as follows:

“Critical Warning!
Critical System Warning! Your system is probably infected with a version of Trojan-Spy.HTML.Visafraud.a. This may result in website access passwords being stolen from Interner Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Outlook etc. Click Yes to scan and remove threats. (recommended)”

There just really isn’t any middle ground. Do not believe this fake security message, take steps to remove Trojan-Spy.HTML.Visafraud.a and any other symptoms and infections of Security Essentials from your PC in order to limit the damage.