Home Safety Essentials is a new rogue of one of the oldest family of pretended security threats. The program is deemed to replace Anti-Malware Lab spyware which became too much notorious due to its annoying behaviors.
The new rogue does not contain a single new graphical interface compared to its predecessor. However, its scripts are totally different and might be updated in order to bewilder malware experts and security suites.
The adware is dedicated to Windows, of which its main popup informs directly says as it contains caption that reads as follows:
Windows Advanced Security Center
Get rid of Home Safety Essentials pretended Windows utility as it notifies you on fabricated virus detections and deliberately disorder your PC – all for the sake of persuading you by scaring and misleading tricks into exposing credit card data to hackers and spending your money on malicious software.
If you have become unfortunate to trust the concocted by rascals software, you need to notify your card issuer of the risk of your credentials theft by hackers and also claim the relevant transaction cancellation.
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Home Safety Essentials manual removal guide:
Delete infected files:
%AllUsersProfile%\\
%AllUsersProfile%\\14.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\3178.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\46.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\6113.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\HS2d7_231.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\\HSE.ico
%AllUsersProfile%\\HSESys
%AllUsersProfile%\\Quarantine Items
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE\HSLGILTOGE.cfg
%AppData%\Home Safety Essentials\
%AppData%\Home Safety Essentials\Instructions.ini
%AppData%\Home Safety Essentials\ScanDisk_.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CLSV.tmp
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\DBOLE.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\PE.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\SICKBOY.drv
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\SICKBOY.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\delfile.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\eb.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\eb.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\energy.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\gid.tmp
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\pal.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\ppal.drv
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\runddlkey.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\snl2w.drv
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
Delete infected registry entries:
HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\91\Shell\{5C4F28B5-F869-4E84-8E60-F11DB97C5CC7}\Vid {137E7700-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}
HKCU\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\URL http://findgala.com/?&uid=231&q={searchTerms}
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download\RunInvalidSignatures 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PRS http://127.0.0.1:27777/?inj=%ORIGINAL%
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\URL http://findgala.com/?&uid=231&q={searchTerms}
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform\89770803
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform\lib/5.00231
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\UID 231
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\0 msseces.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\1 MSASCui.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\10 avgscanx.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\11 avgcfgex.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\12 avgemc.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\13 avgchsvx.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\14 avgcmgr.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\15 avgwdsvc.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\2 ekrn.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\3 egui.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\4 avgnt.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\5 avcenter.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\6 avscan.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\7 avgfrw.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\8 avgui.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\9 avgtray.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Home Safety Essentials
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{3F2BBC05-40DF-11D2-9455-00104BC936FF}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\HS2d7_231.DocHostUIHandler
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download\CheckExeSignatures "no"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin "2"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorUser "2"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA "1"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AAWTray.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AVCare.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AVENGINE.EXE
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AVWEBGRD.EXE
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\About.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Ad-Aware.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AlphaAV
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AlphaAV.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AluSchedulerSvc.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\~1.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\~2.exe
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