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How to Remove Data Protection Rogue Anti-Spyware?

Data Protection Information:

Data Protection is a rogue anti-spyware application, a clone of Digital Protection. Data Protection is the successor of Digital Protection. Data Protection is speading by employing trojan viruses. Once installed, Data Protection tends to uninstall the known security programs running on your computer. Also, Data Protection configures itself to run with system reboot by forcily modifying Windows registry. Data Protection scares you both by loads of threats displayed by Data Protection scanner and its constant security alert popups. This sort of routine is being used in order to mislead you into thinking you badly need Data Protection full version to protect your computer. The scan results are false so you may safely ignore them. What’s more, Data Protection may repeatedly redirect your Internet Explorer destination to a website that serves for payment processing purposes. This is only one part of Data Protection. This scareware will also bring some apparent damage to your system. This program takes up the processing resources of your computer, thus some system performance deterioration and your machine may even freeze sometimes. All the above-listed negative effects of Data Protection being inside your computer must be eliminated at its first stage. You can remove Data Protection malware with the guide below.

Data Protection Screenshot:

Manual Removal

Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Data Protection Rogue Anti-Spyware. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files.

Step 1: End its process by opening Task Manager.

datprot.exe

Step 2: The files you need to delete:

About.lnk, Activate.lnk, Buy.lnk, Data Protection Support.lnk, Data Protection.lnk, Scan.lnk, Settings.lnk, Update.lnk, about.ico, activate.ico, buy.ico, dig.db, digext.dll, dighook.dll, datprot.exe, help.ico, scan.ico, settings.ico, splash.mp3, Uninstall.exe, update.ico, virus.mp3

Step 3: The registry entries you need to delete:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{5E2121EE-0300-11D4-8D3B-444553540000}

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTFoldershellexContextMenuHandlersSimpleShlExt

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREData Protection

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallData Protection

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystem “DisableTaskMgr” = “1”

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun “Data Protection”

Please, be aware that manual removal of Data Protection Rogue Anti-Spyware is a cumbersome task and can not always ensure complete removal of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why it’s strongly recommended automatic removal of Data Protection Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

Automatic Data Protection Rogue Anti-Spyware Removal:

1. Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 Key before Windows launches. Use the arrow keys to select the “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then hit ENTER Key to continue.

2. Download Spyware Cease (Spyware Cease review), install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Spyware Cease fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Spyware Cease can detect all potential malware in your system.

NOTE: If you have problem installing Spyware Cease, you can download this correction script, unzip it and then double click to run it. It will correct your registry settings that the virus has modified. Then double click the program and finish the installation.

3. After the Online Scan finishes, click “Details” for the malware detected to make sure that your important data are not infected and removed. Ignore or select the scan result and click “Remove” to remove the threats. Reboot your computer and let Spyware Cease delete all detected virus.

4. Click to repair your corrupted registry

Why should you need to repair the registry?

As we all know, virus and Trojans modify and destroy system registry and make the computer malfunction so that the computer will not perform normally. Even if the virus and Trojans are removed, the registry is still destroyed or modified, so the computer still has problems. That’s the very reason why you need to repair the registry. At the meanwhile, some virus and Trojans leave some DLL files in the registry and this will cause strange DLL errors and affect the computer performance.

To make your computer run as perfectly as before or much faster than before:
1. Download and install Multi-Awarded Registry Tool.
2. Run a full scan of your registry.
3. Click “Repair Problems” and repair all errors detected.

After these 3 easy steps, your computer will run much faster than before within minutes!

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