How to Remove Security Tool Rogue Anti-Spyware?

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Security Tool Rogue Anti-Spyware Information:

Security Tool is a rogue anti-spyware application that is promoted through the use of Trojans, fake online anti-malware scanners and other malicious software. It is installed along with Trojans FakeAV. Once active, SecurityTool will modify registry and configure to start with Windows. Then Security Tool will deliberately imitate system scan, give reports of fake system security threats on your computer and display fake security warnings to make you believe your PC is seriously infected with malware. Moreover, Security Tool will block legitimate security applications to protect itself. This misleading application is from the same family as Total security 2009 and System Security. Its main goal is to make you think you can’t remove those fake infections unless you purchase the program. But don’t purchase it. Instead, you should remove Security Tool at any sight according to the following guide.

Security Tool Rogue Anti-Spyware Screenshot:

Manual Removal


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

4946550101.exe

Step 2. Delete the following registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Security Tool

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “4946550101”

Step 3. Delete the following files:

4946550101.bat 4946550101.cfg 4946550101.exe Security Tool.lnk Security Tool.lnk

Step 4. Delete the following directories:

%UserProfile%\Application Data\4946550101

 

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

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

NOTE: If you have problem installing Security Tool 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 Security Tool 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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