Warning Your Computer is In Danger

"Windows Security Center has detected spyware/adware infection! It is strongly recommended to use special antispyware tools to prevent data lass. Click here to install the latest protection tools!"

This message means that your system has been compromised due to lack of security. The "Windows Security Center has detected" portion of the message makes it seem as if the message is some type of alert generated from the Windows operation system. The message comes from a virus, trojan or worm (collectively known as malware). If you have the "warning your computer is in danger" message you will likely have a combination of trojan files and emailers, worm applications and virus' on your system.

Is your computer in danger?

This message makes it sound as if your computer were going to explode or shut down permenently. With this particular message this is more than likely not the case. However, I would say your personal data is in danger. The data on your computer could be in danger of being seen by malicious hackers and possibly sold on the Internet to the highest bidder.

If you are getting the "warning your computer is in danger " message, do a "netstat"

You will see that some information from your computer is being sent to email addresses on the Internet.

How to remove warning your computer is in danger Message:

This message and others like it come from the actual virus, trojans, malware they are warning you about. There is a trend of blackmail and false anti-spyware on the Internet. If you find sudden "warning!" "beware" "danger" "click here to load this" type messages in your system tray and you know you did not purposely load any applications to protect your system then you may have malware on your system.

Here are methods to remove it:

1) Use Spybot Search and Destroy & Adaware instructions

2) "Hijack this warning your computer is in danger"

HiJackthis is one application that can help you clear this message. MajorGeeks has detail on how to get rid of "warning your computer is in danger" using hijack this

3) System Restore

Some might argue that it is an overkill to remove the "warning your computer is in danger" message and associated malware from your system using System Restore, but if you haven't done any major upgrades such as Service Packs or other major modifications to the Windows Registry since the messages appeared you shouldn't have any issues using System Restore.

The first step is to reboot the system in Safemode: