How to Remove Fake Windows Security Center Virus

What is Windows Security Center? Is it a real anti-virus program that can help you fix your computer problem? Is it real that this program can protect your computer from the viruses and Trojans? How can you remove this fake anti-virus completely from your computer?

What is the Windows Security Center Virus?

Windows Security Center is a fake anti-virus program that acts as the real anti-virus program to cheat and scare you. If you regard it as the real anti-virus program, you will bring your infected computer to a very dangerous place. This fake anti-virus program can infect some program first, when you download the infected program, it will install itself without your permission. Another fake program like Win Server Defender can do the similar damage to your computer just as Windows Security Center. This fake program can create a lot of nonexistent System vulnerability and Viruses to scare you. And it will claim that it can help you fix your computer before you activate it. If you choose to activate this program. Your infected computer may have a further damage caused by this anti-virus program.

Windows Security Center is a fake anti-virus program. They can infect some websites, links or free programs, when you click on the infected website or links, this virus will start to download itself to your computer. When the infection is done, this fake program will install to your computer without your permission. This fake anti-virus program will create lots of System vulnerabilities and Viruses and show on your computer. It will claim that your computer has a “Very high” risk of being attacked by the virus or spyware. And this program will say that you can remove all the threatens before you activating this program. Please remember, that is the way virus maker collects money from the victims. Then you will see the window that you need to activate this program by paying to them. If you choose to pay them, you will see that this fake program “fix” all the problems in your infected computer and your computer is back to healthy. Do not fooled by this big virus, actually this fake program does not fix your computer at all, what it does is just to scare you and cheat your money.

Windows Security Center cheats you by showing a lot of fake warning in your infected computer, It will scare you so that you choose to trust it can help your computer get out of this “terrible” situation. If you want to fix all the problems in your computer, you need to activate this fake program so that it can work completely. When you choose to pay to activate it, this virus will start to do damage to your system completely. Firstly, It will start to download viruses and Trojans to your infected computer from the Virus’ webpage, then you will find that your computer is running slowly than before, this virus will slow down the speed of your computer and even can forbidden Anti-virus program. Secondly, this fake program can track your action on this computer to get your information and data, such as the password of the important account. Sometimes this virus may mess up your system data and files and stop some functions in your infected computer. Thirdly, this virus can download Ransomware to lock your computer. If you just let it stay in your infected computer, it may freeze your system at all. So next time when you find this fake anti-virus program in your computer, do not hesitate, remove this virus completely from your infected computer.

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

The Screen Shot of the Windows Security Center Virus

fake-windows-security-center-virus

Steps to Manually Windows Security Center Virus

1. Reboot your infected computer and keep pressing F8 key on your keyboard and next use the arrow keys to select “Safe Mode with Networking” and press E/Enter;

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the same time or right click on the Task Bar to open the Windows Task Manager; then scroll down to End processes related to [Windows Security Center].exe;

3. Open Control Panel from Start menu; then find Folder Options and under View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then click OK;

4. Press Windows+R keys to open the Run window and then type in regedit to open Registry Editor.

5: Find out and delete all these associating files and registry entries as below:

Go to %userprofile%\appdata\local\temp

The virus can have names other than “random.exe” but it should look like it doesn’t belong and should have a create date/time the same as a .class file if you sort by file mod/create time you’ll find it.
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[rnd].exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings “net

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In a word, Windows Security Center is a fake anti-virus program that you can not trust it at all. It looks like the real anti-virus program, if your computer in infected by this virus, and you choose to make a scan by this fake program. You will find a lot of system error and bugs shown on this fake program. Please do not believe what it says, you should know that these messages are created by this fake program to cheat you so that you will believe it is a real anti-virus program, which can protect your computer from the virus and system vulnerability. In fact these kinds of viruses or Trojans do not exist in your computer at all. If you choose to believe this fake program and activate it, you will become one of the victims like many people choose this fake program. It will start to download viruses and Trojans from the infected website when you activate this program, it even can bring malware to your infected computer. And this virus will track your actions online and steal your personal information such as account number and password then send it to the virus maker. This is a big virus that you can not trust it at all. When your computer is infected by this virus, do not fooled by this fake program. Never activate it, or your computer will face a further damage. Next time when you see it on your computer, do not just let is be, please remove it completely from your infected computer.

This is a tricky virus that you need to remove it completely from your computer. If you’re not sure how to delete this nasty virus, please start a live chat with YooCare experts now.

Published by on January 4, 2013 5:19 am, last updated on June 5, 2013 2:43 pm

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