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How to Remove XP Home Security 2011 Rogue Anti-Spyware?

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XP Home Security 2011 Information:

XP Home Security 2011 is a fake anti-spyware application that represents itself to be legitimate. This piece of malicious code is very interesting, because it can change its name according to the infected Operating System, such as Win 7 Home Security 2011 and Vista Home Security 2011. The pattern of XP Home Security 2011′s activity on your computer has no relationship with security defense. But it imitates the legitimate security software and swindles your money. This rogueware stealthily creeps into your machine with the help of Trojans bypassing your approval. Then it modifies your registry to make its processes load whenever your system boots up, which will lead to severe consequences. XP Home Security 2011 runs its fabricated security scanner and displays many harmful computer parasites on your Operating System. Meanwhile, this malware is able to generate loads of system tray notifications telling about all kinds of computer viruses in order to make you scared. The designers of this malware are good at taking advantage of gullibility of computer users and expect you to believe in those false positives and thus purchase its full version. You should be smarter than them. Never trust XP Home Security 2011 scamware. The right thing to do is to stick to the listed removal guide and remove XP Home Security 2011 for good.

XP Home Security 2011 Screenshot:

Manual Removal

Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing XP Home Security 2011 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: Processes you need to end:

[random].exe

Step 2: Registry entries you need to delete:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe “(Default)” = ‘exefile’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe “Content Type” = ‘application/x-msdownload’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\DefaultIcon “(Default)” = ‘%1′ = ‘”%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random 3 letters].exe” /START “%1″ %*’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command “IsolatedCommand” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\runas\command “(Default)” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\runas\command “IsolatedCommand” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile “(Default)” = ‘Application’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile “Content Type” = ‘application/x-msdownload’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile\DefaultIcon “(Default)” = ‘%1′

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile\shell\open\command “(Default)” = ‘”%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random 3 letters].exe” /START “%1″ %*’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile\shell\open\command “IsolatedCommand” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile\shell\runas\command “(Default)” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile\shell\runas\command “IsolatedCommand” – ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\DefaultIcon “(Default)” = ‘%1′

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command “(Default)” = ‘”%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random 3 letters].exe” /START “%1″ %*’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command “IsolatedCommand” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\runas\command “(Default)” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\runas\command “IsolatedCommand” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile “Content Type” = ‘application/x-msdownload’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command “IsolatedCommand” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\runas\command “IsolatedCommand” = ‘”%1″ %*’

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command “(Default)” = ‘”%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random 3 letters].exe” /START “%1″ %*’

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command “(Default)” = ‘”%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random 3 letters].exe” /START “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”‘

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\safemode\command “(Default)” = ‘”%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random 3 letters].exe” /START “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -safe-mode’

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command “(Default)” = ‘”%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[random 3 letters].exe” /START “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”‘

Step 3: Files you need to delete:

%AllUsersProfile%\t3e0ilfioi3684m2nt3ps2b6lru

%AppData%\Local\[random].exe (look for 3-letter names)

%AppData%\Local\t3e0ilfioi3684m2nt3ps2b6lru

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\t3e0ilfioi3684m2nt3ps2b6lru

%Temp%\t3e0ilfioi3684m2nt3ps2b6lru

Please, be aware that manual removal of XP Home Security 2011 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 XP Home Security 2011 Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

Automatic XP Home Security 2011 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 XP Home Security 2011 Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make XP Home Security 2011 Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that XP Home Security 2011 Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.

NOTE: If you have problem installing XP Home Security 2011 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 XP Home Security 2011 Remover 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!