How to Remove Virus Cure Rogue Anti-Spyware?

Virus Cure Information:

Virus Cure (also referred as VirusCure) is a rogue security application designed for Korean market. Just like its relatives EzPrivacy or VaccineTree, Virus Cure employs the same tactics to promote its license. In order to persuade computer users to buy its license, Virus Cure imitates a system scan and then “catch” some harmful malware. Its fake scanner runs automatically whenever you turn on your computer. And Virus Cure promises to help remove all viruses but users have to first purchase its license. The reality is that all detected items are your system files and your computer will be impossible to use if you remove them. As soon as you see any alert or scanner of Virus Cure, please use the removal guide below and remove Virus Cure out of your PC.

Manual Removal

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

Uninstall.exe

avSubEngine.exe

vcReg.exe

viruscure_setup.exe

avsrvc.exe

vcMon.exe

VirusCure.exe

VCAutoUpdate.exe

avsrv.exe

VCreport.exe

Step 2: Registry entries you need to delete:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\viruscuremain

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\VirusCureMain

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VirusCure

Step 3: The DLL files you need to unregister:

inter.dll

filter.dll

Step 4: The files you need to delete:

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\Uninstall.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\db\inter.dll

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\etc\avSubEngine.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\etc\vcReg.exe

C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Desktop\viruscure_setup.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\db\filter.dll

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\etc\avsrvc.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\etc\vcMon.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\VirusCure.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\VCAutoUpdate.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\etc\avsrv.exe

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\etc\VCFilterDriver.SYS

C:\Program Files\VirusCure\etc\VCreport.exe

 

Please, be aware that manual removal of Virus Cure 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 Virus Cure Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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

NOTE: If you have problem installing Virus Cure 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 Virus Cure 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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