Thursday, May 24, 2012

Remove Windows Safety Maintenance counterfeited security tool - reliable extermination method

Windows Safety Maintenance adware is a pretended antivirus, a counterfeit marketed by black hats. Its skins are not brand new GUI as the same images and graphics occur in the infections released earlier.
Online advertisement dedicated to the fake antivirus in question consist of misleading phony scanner and pages presented as vendor’s description of their product. Visiting those pages may automatically install the adware into computer system through browser vulnerabilities. However, the hackers chiefly reckon on scaring and enticing users into manual download and installation of the proposed adware.
Remove Windows Safety Maintenance infection as it burdens you with imaginary threats and slows down computer system, as well as restricts particular features of your machine. Free scanner available here is a validated Windows Safety Maintenance removal method. 




Windows Safety Maintenance may generate and show the following popup alerts:
Error
Software without a digital signature detected.
Your system files are at risk. We strongly advise you to activate your protection.

Error
Keylogger activity detected. System information security is at risk.
It is recommended to activate protection and run a full system scan.
Windows Safety Maintenance activation code (helps removal):
0W000-000B0-00T00-E0020
NOTE: "Activating" Windows Safety Maintenance is not enough. You need to remove related trojans \ rootkits using reliable malware removal solution.
It is important to fix Windows registry after Windows Safety Maintenance malware removal using safe registry cleaner software.

Windows Safety Maintenance manual removal guide:

Delete infected files:
%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll
%AppData%\Protector-[random 3 characters].exe
%AppData%\Protector-[random 4 characters].exe
%AppData%\W34r34mt5h21ef.dat
%AppData%\result.db
%CommonStartMenu%\Programs\Windows Safety Maintenance.lnk
%Desktop%\Windows Safety Maintenance.lnk
Delete Windows Safety Maintenance registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegistryTools” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “ConsentPromptBehaviorUser” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “EnableLUA” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Inspector”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings “net” = “2012-4-27_2″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings “UID” = “tovvhgxtud”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ASProtect
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\[random].exe

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