How to Remove the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert?

fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Information:

Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert is nothing but a malicious Trojan that fabricates the well-known Microsoft Security Essentials Alert in an attempt to promote rogue security applications. This fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert will recommend 35 different security software among of which 5 are rogue ones: AntiSpy Safeguard,Major Defense Kit, Peak Protection 2010, Pest Detector 4.1 and Red Cross Antivirus. Once this Trojan enters into your computer, it starts to popup its fake alert which look similar to the reputable Windows Microsoft Security Essentials software and reports a Trojan infection. If you click on “Clean computer” or “Apply action” option on the Alert message, you will be recommended by this fake Alert to download and install the above mentioned rogue applications. Please remember that none of them are helpful to remove any virus. They are designed to make their authors rich. To stop fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert popups, please follow the listed removal guide and remove Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert virus as soon as possible.

fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Screenshot:

Manual Removal

Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Virus. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files. In case you can’t surf the Internet, open Internet Explorer, go to “Tools”, choose “Internet options” and hit “Connections” tab. Click “LAN settings” and untick the option “Use a proxy server for your LAN”. Save all these changes. Now, you will be able to go to our website and download our removal tool to have the virus expelled for good.

Step 1. End the following processes via Task Manager

antispy.exe

defender.exe

tmp.exe

Step 2. Delete the following registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PAV

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = “0?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnOnPostRedirect” = “0?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “tmp”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce “SelfdelNT”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” = “%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe”

Step 3. Delete the following files:

%UserProfile%\Application Data\PAV\

%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe

%UserProfile%\Application Data\defender.exe

%UserProfile%\Application Data\tmp.exe

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\kjkkklklj.bat

 

Please, be aware that manual removal of fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert virus 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 fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert virus, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

Automatic fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert virus 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 the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.

NOTE: If you have problem installing the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert 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 the fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert 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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