Aug 3, 2013

How to Remove/Uninstall Live Security Professional Virus?

Fake Live Security Professional virus is taking over your computer? This is a newly-released rogue program that recently attacks PC users. It comes from the same Rogue family like Live Security Platinum virus. When users have this fake antivirus program installed, an immediate removal is needed since this useless product is only designed to rip you off. Read more from the following post and find an effective way to delete this rogue program as soon as possible.

Live Security Professional Description:

Live Security Professional is another threat that as same as its previous representative known as Live Security Platinum and System Progressive Protection. They have the similar GUI and can do the same evil actions on the infected computers. It will normally use Trojan viruses to be installed into your computer without your approval while you are browsing on the internet. Once a user accepts this rogue software and allows it to enter the system it will cause all types of havoc in your system. There are many reasons can make users get this virus installed  such as downing free programs, opening unknown attachments or clicking malicious sites. When it is installed, a disaster will begin soon.

At the first beginning, this rogue program will use malicious Registry entries to launch itself every time you start Windows. No matter how trusty it looks like as a real antispyware, you should bear in mind that this hoax doesn’t possess with the ability to detect and remove real threats. It will mimic the process of cleaning and healing your system from all kinds of fake malware. All it wants is to lure you into paying the so called full version. “When I start my computer, I hear 3 dings and a woman’s voice stating “Threat has been detected”. Three pop up boxes appear. One is titled Live Security Professional and it states “Virus Detected. A tool used to remotely attack hackers computers and steal personal information. Therefore, it is recommended to remove it” and it will state the names of different viruses that it says I have: Svchost.stealth.keyloger, packed generic.368, w32.silly-FDC.BDQ, TrojanExprez, etc….and it seems to give a new name every time I turn my computer on. It asks if I want to Continue Unprotected or Remove Threat,” said one of the victims. As we can see, your computer will be absolutely bombarded with a bunch of fake alerts like “Warning Application cannot be executed. The file ctfmon.exe is infected. Please activate your antivirus software.” Furthermore, this pest will prevent you from running your current Antivirus and make sure it can stay your computer and make chaos. If you are facing such nasty Live Security Professional thing, you should take immediate action to uninstall it from your machine timely.

The following instructions require certain levels of computer skills. If you’re not sure how to delete this harmful rogue program , you can start a live chat with YooCare experts now.

Screenshots of this rogue program:

New Live Security Professional – Unregistered Version

Live-Security-Professional-unregistered-version-A

Live-Security-Profession al-unregistered version B

Distribution:

There are so many ways can lead this malware to get inside the computer, but most of the time it is beyond your knowledge.

1> It can be downloaded via malicious drive-by-download scripts from corrupted porn and shareware / freeware websites.

2> It may be installed through spam email attachments, media downloads and social networks.

3> It can get into your system if you have ever clicked some malicious ads or visited some malicious sites, as well as opened unknown downloaded files.

Step-By-Step Manual Removal Guide:

1. Reboot your computer to safe mode with networking. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8” key constantly.

2. Show hidden files and folders.

Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

3. Open Registry entries. Find out the malicious files and entries and then delete all.

Attention: Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

a. Press the “Start” button and then choose the option “Run”. In the “Open” field, type “regedit” and click the “OK” button.

b. All malicious files and registry entries that should be deleted:

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Inspector’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\protector.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Win 7 Antispyware 2013
HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System ‘DisableTaskMgr’ = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Live Security Professional

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Malicious as Live Security Professional Virus, it generates fake warning to mislead users into thinking PC is at risk and needs to be repaired by paying the so called full version. However, users must know that its foremost goal is to gain access to your credit card information and linked finances. It can perform the following bad activities on your computer once downloaded: 1) It generates automatic system scan and fake security report without any permission. 2) It may cause browser redirection or even disable internet access as a result. 3) It blocks task manager and registry editor to prevent users from removing it manually. 4) It disables your current antivirus to avoid the deletion and keeps making chaos on the infected computer. For saving your computer, it is no doubt to remove Live Security Professional timely.

Spending a lot of time removing this virus but still with no luck? Live chat with YooCare experts now to save your computer and remove the virus safely and completely.

Published by & last updated on August 3, 2013 1:35 am

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