There’s been several queries on the term windows police pro virus today and based on its reported behaviors, the windows police pro protector may be a new form of rogue anti virus program. This article attempts to provide answers on the legitimacy of this Windows Police Protection software. It also provides information on how to remove windows police pro virus. Read on to learn more about windows police pro and windows police pro removal.
Windows Police Protection: What is Windows Police Pro?
If you do not remember installing an anti virus protection specifically the windows police pro software, yet your computer screen is flooded with windows police pro pop ups and alerts, what you have is not a legitimate windows police antivirus protection but a program now popularly being referred to as a scareware. A scareware projects itself as a program that scans your computer for computer threats and infections and bombards your PC screen with windows alerts so you will spend money on a fake antivirus security software. If the Windows Police Pro avg aka windows pro virus is present in your system and you do not remember installing it and it “scans” your computer without permission, what you have is the Windows Police Pro virus. So, how do I get rid of windows police pro?
Windows Police Pro Removal: How to get rid of window police pro
Note: you are advised not to purchase or download the windows police pro software advertised through pop ups and alerts because you risk yourself of getting scammed by the windows police virus developers. You do not have to spend money to if you do not know how to get rid of windows police pro manually. How do you get rid of windows police pro for free?
Updated September 22, 2009:
One of the key features of the windows police pro avg is it prevents infected users from running programs including Malwarebytes which is often used in removing rogue anti virus applications. Myantispyware.com provided a solution to this (see below). Note: Use this Windows Police Pro avg uninstall guide at your own risk. You can visit Myantispyware.com for a more detailed instruction on how to uninstall windows police pro virus: http://www.myantispyware.com/2009/08/31/remove-windows-police-pro-uninstall-instructions/.
Download OTM by Oldtimer: http://oldtimer.geekstogo.com/OTM.exe and rename before saving it to your desktop.
Run OTM, paste the text below in the “Paste Instructions for Items to be Moved” window and click the red Moveit! button.
:processes
svchasts.exe
windows Police Pro.exe:services
AntipPro2009_100:reg
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{76DC0B63-1533-4ba9-8BE8-D59EB676FA02}]:files
%windir%\system32\desote.exe
%windir%\system32\dddesot.dll
%windir%\svchasts.exe
%ProgramFiles%\Windows Police Pro
If you are asked to reboot the machine choose Yes.
In your start up menu, click run, type command and press Enter. Type notepad, press Enter and copy the text below into the notepad:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command]
@=”\”%1\” %*”
Save this file as fix.reg to your Desktop, double Click fix.reg, click YES for confirm and reboot your PC.
You can now download and run Malwarebytes. For information on how to use malwarebytes as a windows police pro remover, visit this link:
Malware bites
The adverts caused by this malware look like they are connected with Microsoft and thus, some people call this infection as the microsoft police virus. Getting rid of windows police pro is advised as soon as you recognize the symptoms of the rogue window police antivirus . For more information on how to get rid of police pro, you may want to read the following related posts on rogue anti virus protection programs:
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