LinkSafeness has a very “safe” sounding moniker, but the fact is it is a rogue security application that does not protect computers at all.  In fact, it is only installed so that the creator can market of additional software.  This fake product attempts to scare a computer user into believing that his or her machine is under attack, and then tries to get them to purchase the products it hawks.

LinkSafeness has been known to enter a computer through Trojan files on the Internet, and as soon as this happens, the user will note fabricated security alerts, pop-up marketing, faked Windows Security Center messages, and other symptoms like scanning the computer but actually doing nothing.

No user should trust security information that comes from the LinkSafeness program!  The only responsible thing for a computer user to do in this case is to purge it from the hard drive at the first opportunity.
Type:
Rogue Security Application

Related file contents:
LinkSafeness.exe
Uninstall.exe
[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
10955mqa59m1.exe
10915zbot9z5.exe
[RANDOM CHARACTERS].ocx
10796bot9d-virza5f9.ocx
f5mld9az.exe
LinkSafeness.lnk
1 LinkSafeness.lnk
2 Homepage.lnk
3 Uninstall.lnk

Also Known As:
Link Safeness

Manual Removal Instructions:
A computer user who knows what he or she is doing may wish to delete the LinkSafeness program manually.

This can be achieved by deleting the following processes completely:
LinkSafeness.exe
[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
10955mqa59m1.exe
10915zbot9z5.exe
f5mld9az.exe
uninstall.exe

Then be sure to delete these registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LinkSafeness
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LinkSafeness
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\LinkSafeness
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “LinkSafeness”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “f5mld9az.exe”

After that, delete the following files:
LinkSafeness.exe
uninstall.exe
[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
10955mqa59m1.exe
10915zbot9z5.exe
[RANDOM CHARACTERS].ocx
10796bot9d-virza5f9.ocx
f5mld9az.exe
LinkSafeness.lnk
1 LinkSafeness.lnk
2 Homepage.lnk
3 Uninstall.lnk

And finally, do not forget to delete these directories:
C:\Program Files\LinkSafeness Software
C:\Program Files\LinkSafeness Software\LinkSafeness
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\LinkSafeness
%Temp%\

These manual instructions will delete the program itself, but remember that there could be further problems with a recurrence or with other spyware that accompanied LinkSafeness on its way into the computer.  Because this is the case, many professionals will advise computer owners to select a good antispyware program.  This allows them to complete the removal job more thoroughly and permanently.

Blue Penguin software company has a remarkably successful anti-spyware program called ZookaWare PC Cleaner, which includes a 100% spyware removal guarantee.  The company has created a program to consistently seek out, identify, and remove all kinds of spyware problems.  With ZookaWare PC Cleaner, spyware problems like LinkSafeness can be reliably removed with little time and effort.