How to Remove Advanced Security Tool 2010 Rogue Anti-Spyware?
Advanced Security Tool 2010 Information:
Advanced Security Tool 2010 is a new rogue application designed to rip computer users off. Besides the same Graphical User Interface as Security Central rogue antivirus, Advanced Security Tool 2010 also enters into the vulnerable system via Trojans. Once inside, Advanced Security Tool 2010 uses annoying popup alerts and false scan report to scare you into thinking your computer got many dangerous Trojans, worms and adware etc. After a sufficient brainwash, Advanced Security Tool 2010 will suggest you to buy its full version and protect your computer. Before your purchase, you should know that Advanced Security Tool 2010 secretly installs on your system without getting your perssmion or knowledge and it intentionally reports fake malware infection in an attempt to mislead you. Therefore, there is no reason for you to take its advice and purchase its alleged license. Of course, you can’t uninstall it from Add/Remove Programs, for it’s a virus instead of a system application. Please follow the listed removal guide and remove Advanced Security Tool 2010 virus as soon as you notice it on your PC.
Advanced Security Tool 2010 Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Advanced Security Tool 2010 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. Delete the following registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Advanced Security
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BrcWizApp.BrcWiz
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\BrcWizApp.BrcWiz.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{80c10400-59cb-4c79-97ce-cc693103afca}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{4B66E1DF-4DE3-4CDA-83B5-11673EADAB0B}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{9692BE2F-EB8F-49D9-A11C-C24C1EF734D5}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{58B4E0F5-F122-4C02-B038-C482D998486A}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{80c10400-59cb-4c79-97ce-cc693103afca}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft “adver_id” = “29″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” = “.exe;”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “AdvSecTool”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “rundll32″ = “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” = “%UserProfile%\Application Data\asectool.exe” /sn”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “EnableLUA” = “0″
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “rundll32″ = “”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” = “explorer.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntload.exe”
Step 2. Delete the following files:
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\asr.dat
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Application Data\1tmp.bat
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Application Data\asectool.exe
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Application Data\scan.dll
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Application Data\secmof.tmp
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Desktop\Advanced Security Tool 2010.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Start Menu\Advanced Security Tool 2010.lnk
Please, be aware that manual removal of Advanced Security Tool 2010 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 Advanced Security Tool 2010 Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Advanced Security Tool 2010 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 Advanced Security Tool 2010 Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Advanced Security Tool 2010 Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Advanced Security Tool 2010 Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Advanced Security Tool 2010 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 Advanced Security Tool 2010 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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