Monday, January 17, 2011

ProProtect Removal Guide

ProProtect Removal Guide
ProProtect is a fake antivirus program try to cheat the money from the user by urge them to purchase the full version of ProProtect which can do nothing on the computer. ProProtect cannot detect and remove any kind of virus, malware or trojan. However, ProProtect will repeatedly show pop ups that the computer is infected by a lot of malware or trojans. ProProtect will convince the user that all of the detected malwares or trojans can be removed if the user purchase the full version of ProProtect which cannot remove malware or trojan actually.

ProProtect can be removed by stopping and killing all the the processes by using Emsisoft HiJackFree. The user also has to restore all the registry entries added or modified by ProProtect by using Registry Editor. Finally, all the related files of ProProtect must be deleted from the hard drive. All of them are shown in the removal guide below.

ProProtect should be removed immediately!

ProProtect Removal Guide
Kill Process
(How to kill a process effectively?)
uninst_proprotect.exe
ProProtect.exe

Delete Registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ProProtect
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random].exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random]"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "ProProtect"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\proprotect
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\proprotect

Remove Folders and Files
Remove all temporary internet files
%programfiles%\ProProtect
%windir%\system32\uninst_ProProtect.exe

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