How to Remove Security Essentials 2010 Rogue Anti-Spyware?
# This article How to Remove Security Essentials 2010 Virus is an article in Spyware Removal Instructions, the original author is Security-Wire.com .You can read more information in the following:
Security Essentials 2010 Information:
Security Essentials 2010 is a bogus anti-spyware application that is promoted through the help of Trojans and other malicious software. It’s a clone of widely spread scareware called Internet Security 2010. When running, Security Essentials 2010 pretends to check your system, then it will report false scan results in order to trick you into buying Security Essentials 2010. At the same time, Security Essentials 2010 will display many fake security alerts claiming that your computer has many security problems. It wants to make to you think that your computer is seriously infected. In order to protect itself, Security Essentials 2010 will block legitimate anti-spyware and anti-virus software and display “Application cannot be executed” error message. What is more, Security Essentials 2010 will hijack Internet Explorer and your Desktop.But in reality, the only infection is Security Essentials 2010 itself. Don’t purchase this bogus software and remove it from your computer as soon as possible using either manual removal guide or an automatic removal tool for Security Essentials 2010.
Security Essentials 2010 Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Security Essentials 2010 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.
SE2010.exe, 41.exe, winlogon32.exe, smss32.exe
Step 2: The files you need to delete:
SE2010.exe, Security essentials 2010.lnk, 41.exe, helpers32.dll, smss32.exe, warnings.html, winlogon32.exe
Step 3: The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\buy-security-essentials.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\download-soft-package.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\download-software-package.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\get-key-se10.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\is-software-download.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SE2010
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\buy-security-essentials.com
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\get-key-se10.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallpaper” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer “NoActiveDesktopChanges” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer “NoSetActiveDesktop” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Security essentials 2010″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “smss32.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallpaper” = “1”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer “NoActiveDesktopChanges” = “1”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer “NoSetActiveDesktop” = “1”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “smss32.exe”
Step 4: The directories you need to delete:
C:\s
C:\Program Files\Securityessentials2010\
Step 5: Unregister DLLs:
helpers32.dll
Please, be aware that manual removal of Security Essentials 2010 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 Security Essentials 2010 Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Security Essentials 2010 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 Security Essentials 2010 Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Security Essentials 2010 Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Security Essentials 2010 Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Security Essentials 2010 Virus Remover, 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 Security Essentials 2010 Virus Remover 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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Fox on June 1st, 2010
Great site. A lot of useful information here. I’m sending it to some friends!