Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Remove Cloud AV 2012 security disaster

Cloud AV 2012 is a rogue security solution. It is not only that the program is rogue because it is a fake. The main problem about the rogueware is that it is quite true when it harms computer system. The harm is partially intentional and partially a side-effect.
Where the harm is intentional, it is done to show he imaginary detections reported by the same imaginary scanner of the fake do exist, for immediate after-effects of their actions are available for observations shortly before or after relevant report is generated.
Damage done by the rogue as a side-effect is not meant to be specific to any purpose. It has a various nature ranging from installation conflicts to incorrect usage of system resources resulting in freezes and even forced reboots.
Removal of Cloud AV 2012 is already a reasonable thing to do just taking into account that the rogue is aimed at cheating its users. Furthermore, as explained above, it harms. Click here to get rid of Cloud AV 2012 devastating software product, as well as disclose and exterminate other infections detected by actual free scanner.
Note:  If Cloud AV 2012 blocks antivirus installation - try to rename removal tool file (SZSetupAV.exe) to explorer.exe and start it with new name or to install it in Safe Mode (press F8 before Windows starts).

CloudAV 2012 screenshot:









Manual removal guide:
Delete infected files:
%AppData%\ldr.ini
%AppData%\[random]\Cloud AV 2012.ico
%DesktopDir%\Cloud AV 2012.lnk
%Temp%\8.tmp
%Programs%\Cloud AV 2012\Cloud AV 2012.lnk

Registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\C0AB6693AB3202B4B9D95716​ED5CE4A6\SourceList

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