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Security Protection - Harry Waldron (CS)

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ThinkPoint - Fake Trojan Removal kit

A new security rogue with limited coverage has emerged that even creates fake BSODs along with false alerting to trick users into paying for cleaning capabilities. 

ThinkPoint - Fake Trojan Removal kit
http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/fake-trojan-removal-kit-serves-up.html

QUOTE: You might want to steer clear of the following fake security program, being promoted as a “Windows Trojan Removal Kit” but actually hijacking your PC in the form of the ThinkPoint rogue.  Installing the executable can potentially give you a bit of a headache, with what would appear to the average user to be fake “Blue Screens of Death” and payment nag screens. See here for details on how to get around the supposedly locked up desktop, and check here for some of the many variations on this theme.