Friday, July 29, 2011

Remove McAffee Enhanced Protection Mode that abuses name of credible product

McAffee Enhanced Protection Mode is a title of misleading alert aimed at cheating users. The trickery abuses not only credit of users as name of renowned and fair product is engaged into the marketing of imaginary update or feature.
That is, concealing the malicious intent under the name of trustworthy product  the hackers literary try to rob users of their money as the alert, on notifying of critical virus detection, is followed by the payment request.
The entire affair is managed by single trojan  which is typically manually installed by users.  It is understandable that a user would not download the trojan, if the content was fairly declared, but, of course, the trojan was introduced as another content. Typical guise used to conceal the trojan is a Flash player update. 
Besides removal of  McAffee Enhanced Protection Mode deceptive alert, there is another popup to get rid of. It is shown at the desktop tray area and reads that system is protected. It pretends to indicate the last date of AV database update.
Click here to run free scan and get rid of McAffee Enhanced Protection Mode related trojan to kill all of the misleading alerts it generates.

McAffee Enhanced Protection Mode snapshot:



Manual removal guide:
Delete infected files:
%WINDOWS%\ddh_iplist.txt
%WINDOWS\front_ip_list.txt
%WINDOWS\geoiplist
%WINDOWS\iecheck_iplist.txt
%WINDOWS\info1
%WINDOWS\iplist.txt
%WINDOWS\l1rezerv.exe
%WINDOWS\phoenix
%WINDOWS\phoenix.rar
%WINDOWS\proc_list1.log
%WINDOWS\rpcminer.rar
%WINDOWS\services32.exe
%WINDOWS\sysdriver32.exe
%WINDOWS\sysdriver32_.exe
%WINDOWS\systemup.exe
%WINDOWS\ufa
%WINDOWS\ufa.rar
%WINDOWS\unrar.exe
%WINDOWS\update.1
%WINDOWS\update.2
%WINDOWS\update.5.0
%Temp%\[random].exe
Delete infected registry entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Avira AntiVir Enhanced Protection Mode
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Comodo Enhanced Protection Mode”

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