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How to Remove User Account Control Rogue Anti-Spyware?

User Account Control Information:

User Account Control is a fake security program distributed by Trojans. User Account Control secretly invades computer systems via other malware without your knowledge. Once installed, User Account Control configures system registry and makes its executables run with Windows Startup. Then User Account Control starts to scan infected computers for viruses with its fabricated system scanners and display bogus results of an alarming amount of malware on the system. The infection warnings and scan reports and other messages loaded by User Account Control are all made up. Its main goal is to ask you to pay for the program. What’s more, it may block real security applications and it may hijack web browser. So User Account Control should be removed as soon as possible.

Manual Removal

Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing User Account Control 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.

LiveSS.exe

unins000.exe

services.exe

Step 2: The registry entries you need to delete:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent “URLSS[2.0.3.0]”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center “AVPath” = “\\.\root\SecurityCenter:AntiVirusProduct.instanceGuid=”{653E64F8-62B6-4F96-B22D-4FFC6E44130E}””

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “User Account Control”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer “uniname” = “User Account Control_is1″

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\FTP “SearchDir” = “%Program Files%\User Account Control\”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\taskmgr.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\User Account Control_is1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\User Account Control

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\User Account Control

Step 3: Unregister DLL files:

WMILib.dll

Step 4: Files you need to delete:

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\services.exe

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\pguard.ini

%UserProfile%\Desktop\LiveSS.exe.txt

%UserProfile%\Desktop\User Account Control.lnk

%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Account Control.lnk

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\db\Urls.inf

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\db\Timeout.inf

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\db\config.cfg

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\db

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\Uninstall User Account Control.lnk

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\unins000.exe

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\uill.ini

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control\settings.ini

%UserProfile%\Application Data\User Account Control

%Program Files%\User Account Control\Languages

%Program Files%\User Account Control\db\WMILib.dll

%Program Files%\User Account Control\db\lists.ini

%Program Files%\User Account Control\db\ia080614.db

%Program Files%\User Account Control\db\DBInfo.ver

%Program Files%\User Account Control\LiveSS.exe

%Program Files%\User Account Control

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\User Account Control\Purchase Licence.lnk

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\User Account Control\User Account Control.lnk

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\User Account Control\User Account Control Home Page.lnk

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\User Account Control

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\User Account Control.lnk

Please, be aware that manual removal of User Account Control 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, lack of the required skills and even the slightest deviation from the instructions may lead to irreparable system damage. That’s why it’s strongly recommended automatic removal of User Account Control Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

Automatic User Account Control 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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