Wait a minute! This is important – we check your device
Wait a minute! This is important – we check your device is a fake pop-up Security Tool alert that attempts to deceive users with fake virus scan results. You may notice that it will look like a Windows Explorer interface but it was actually a web page designed to look like one. Legitimate Windows Explorer does not have any functionalities to perform a virus scan. This misleading tactics is being implemented by rogue developers to scare its victims.
| Type | Popup |
| Sub-Type | FakeAV |
| Aliases | |
| OS Affected | Windows |
| Detected By | MalwareBytes |
What are the Symptoms of ”Wait a minute! This is important” Infection?
A screen shot image shows that the window “Wait a minute! This is important – we check your device” will produce detected threats on each drive of the affected computer.
It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Security Tool
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “4946550101″
The threat will drop the following malicious files:
- %UserProfile%\Application Data\4946550101
- %UserProfile%\Application Data\4946550101\4946550101.bat
- %UserProfile%\Application Data\4946550101\4946550101.cfg
- %UserProfile%\Application Data\4946550101\4946550101.exe
- %UserProfile%\Desktop\Security Tool.lnk
- %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Security Tool.lnk
How to Remove ”Wait a minute! This is important” Manually
1. Restart your computer in SafeMode
- After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
- From the selections, Select SafeMode
2. Remove Registry entries that the threat added. You MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
- Click Start > Run
- Type in the field, regedit
- Navigate and look for the registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary
3. Delete malicious files that the threat added:
- Base on the given location above, browse and delete the file
- If no location is given, click Start>Search> and search for the files.
- If cannot be deleted, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access Task Manager, see if the file is running in the process. If it is, select the file and click End Process. Perform file delete again.
4. Scan computer with Antivirus Program
- Update antivirus program
- Scan computer and delete all detected threats.
How to Easily Remove “Wait a minute! This is important”
1. Download and run Removal Tool to remove this threat.
I can’t find these registry files on my computer. Have tried everything to remove this virus. MalwareBytes, Avira and Ad-Aware all say my computer is fine and 0 problems to worry about, but the re-directing continues. I’ve even installed a website blocker add-on for Firefox and have been adding the sites the pop up after I get re-directed, but since these sites have new addresses all the time, I could be adding new sites to the blocker for ever. Any ideas?
Check your DNS settings. I think it got partially installed and it now queries their “bad” DNS whenever you do web browsing. Usually it should be set to some automatic setting, unless your ISP has specific settings they’d like you to put in. That’s what it was with my wife’s computer: I saw entries in under the DNS server that I didn’t put in.
I tried this safe mode thing I’m I suppose to delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Security tool and all of the other HKEY’s, because that’s all that came up?