Besttechie Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Security Mechanic is a rogue security program. Security Mechanic is promoted through the use of advertisements that pretend to be online anti-malware scanners. The advertisement will pretend to scan and when it is finished it will then state that your computer is infected and that you should download and install Security Mechanic to protect your computer. What you are seeing is just an advertisement and it has absolutely no way of knowing what is running on your computer - it's just a ploy to get you to install the software. In order to remove Security Mechanic from your system, please follow the directions below:Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect and remove this rogue application for free. Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to your desktop.Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to the following: Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware[*]Then click Finish.[*]If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.[*]Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.[*]When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.[*]Be sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected.[*]When completed, a log will open in Notepad. The rogue application should now be gone.We hope our application has helped you eradicate this malicious software. If your current anti-virus solution let this infection through please consider purchasing the PRO version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware for additional protection.Thanks to Bleeping Computer for the screenshot. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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