How to Remove Software Protector Rogue Anti-Spyware?
Software Protector information:
Software Protector (also referred to as SW Protector) is a new harmful application from the same family as another rogue anti-spyware program called Virus Protector. Software Protector invades into your computer using intricate methods such as trojan-based blackhat SEO and social engineering without your authorization. Once active, Software Protector simulates system scans and state that your computer is infected with Trojans, spyware adware and other malware. Software Protector will also display numerous warnings about potential threats from the Internet and serious infections on your computer. These fake items state that your computer is not safe because of the great number of infections found inside it. Software Protector may also block legitimate anti-spyware programs and disable Windows system tools such as Task Manager and Registry Editor. According to Software Protector, your system can’t be fixed unless you go ahead and purchase its commercial version. Software Protector is nothing but a scam. Please don’t purchase it! You may have to manually remove Software Protector or use an automatic removal solution below.
Software Protector Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Software Protector Rogue Anti-Spyware. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files.
The files you need to delete:
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\[random].exe
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\[random].dll
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Temp\[random].exe
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Temp\[random].dll
%Program Files%\Internet Explorer\[random].exe
%Program Files%\Internet Explorer\[random].dll
%WINDOWS%\[random].exe
%WINDOWS%\[random].dll
%WINDOWS%\system32\[random].exe
%WINDOWS%\system32\[random].dll
%WINDOWS%\system32\drivers\[random].exe
%WINDOWS%\system32\drivers\[random].dll
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Software Protector”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows “LoadAppInit_DLLs” = “1″
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows “AppInit_DLLs” = “[random].dll”
Please, be aware that manual removal of Software Protector 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 Software Protector Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Software Protector 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. Download and install RegTweaker (RegTweaker review) to repair your corrupted registry.
Why should you need RegTweaker?
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 RegTweaker.
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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