Remove Home Malware Cleaner - uninstall instructions

Home Malware Cleaner - how to eliminate?

Home Malware Cleaner is a recently discovered fake antivirus program similar to it's previous versions Antivirus Smart Protection, AV Security Essentials etc. The main reason why Home Malware Cleaner is distributed through various Internet sources is stealing money from the credit card accounts of unsuspecting computer users. Internet criminals tried to make Home Malware Cleaner as real as possible by using an interface of a legitimate antivirus program called Microsoft Security Essentials - you shouldn't mistake these two programs. The security suite from Microsoft is free and legitimate white Home Malware Cleaner tries to sell it's licence and is totally useless.

Screenshot of Home Malware Cleaner:

You should always do some research and gather information before you decide to buy a security program to protect your PC because you could easily end up in buying a fake one like Home Malware Cleaner. When this program installs itself on your computer without your permission, it will immediately start a security scan. This process will end up in detection of a massive amount sf spyware, malware, Trojans etc. in your computer. Home Malware Cleaner is imitating this process of security scan to scare you into thinking that your PC and all the stored data is at risk. Immediately after a scan Home Malware Cleaner will offer you to purchase it's licence in order to remove the detected security issues, don't fall for this cleverly designed trick - Home Malware Cleaner is nothing else but a scam. Purchasing a licence for Home Malware Cleaner will put your banking information at risk and your PC will still be infected with this fake antivirus program. The name of this program says that it will clean malware from your computer while in fact Home Malware Cleaner is a malware itself.  You should ignore the security scans and warning messages generated by Home Malware Cleaner and remove it from your PC.

Home Malware Cleaner removal:

remover for Home Malware Cleaner

Before downloading, enter Home Malware Cleaner registration key in the registration window. Click Help icon (at the top right corner of the main window of Home Malware Cleaner), then click Register Now and enter one of these keys.

U2FD-S2LA-H4KA-UEPB
K7LY-R5GU-SI9D-EVFB
K7LY-H4KA-SI9D-U2FD

If you can't download or run spyware remover try running registry fix (link below). It enables execution of programs. download registryfix.reg file, double click it, click YES and then OK.
{wd file=registryfix.reg name='DOWNLOAD registryfix.reg'}

Home Malware Cleaner removal instructions (on infected computer):

1. Start your computer in safe mode. Click Start, click Shut down, click Restart, click OK. During your computer starting process press F8 key on your keyboard multiple times until you see Windows Advanced Option menu, then select Safe mode with networking from the list.

2. Open Internet explorer, click Tools and select Internet Options. Select "Connections".

3.Click LAN settings, if a Use a proxy server for your LAN is checked, uncheck it and press OK.

4. Download HijackThis and save it on your desktop. Some malicious programs are able to block HijackThis so when you click the download link, in the Save dialog rename HijackThis.exe to iexplorer.exe and only then click the Save button. After saving the file on your desktop, double click it. In the main HijackThis window click “Do a system scan only” button. Select these entries (place a tick at the left of the entry):

O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [Home Malware Cleaner] “%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\<random characters>_<random numbers>.exe” /s /d

After selecting required entries, click "Fix Checked". After this procedure you can close HijackThis and proceed to the next removal step.

5. Download a legitimate anti-spyware software to fully remove Home Malware Cleaner from your computer.

remover for Home Malware Cleaner

6. After removing Home Malware Cleaner reset your Hosts files. Don't skip this step, this malware modifies your Hosts files, and you will encounter browser redirect problems.

Hosts file is used to resolve some canonical names of websites to ip addresses. When it is changed, the user may be redirected to malicious site still seeing good URL in address bar. It is very hard to find out if the site is genuine or not, when hosts file is modified. To fix this, please download Microsoft FixIt tool, that restores your hosts file to windows default. Run this tool when downloaded and follow the on-screen instructions. Download link below:

{wd file=MicrosoftFixit.msi name='Download MicrosoftFixit.msi'}

Other tools known to remove Home Malware Cleaner:

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Additional information:

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Some malicious software modifies browser settings and disables downloads of spyware and virus removing software. If you have problems downloading anti-spyware software with Internet Explorer, try downloading with Chrome, FireFox, Opera, etc.

If you can't access Internet:

Load your computer in safe mode. Click Start, click Shut down, click Restart, click OK. During your computer starting process press F8 key on your keyboard multiple times until you see Windows Advanced Option menu, then select Safe mode with networking from the list.

Start Task manager. Press ctrl+alt+del (or ctrl+shift+esc) and end task the processes of rogue program. ( if after this procedure you can't access any programs press ctrl+alt+del, click File, select New Task, and type explorer.exe then press OK.

Open Internet explorer, click Tools and select Internet Options. Select Connections, then click LAN settings, if a Use a proxy server for your LAN is checked, uncheck it and press OK.

After this procedure you should be able to access Internet. Now you can download anti-spyware software from our "Top spyware removers" section and run a full scan. Download, install and don't forget to update your selected anti-spyware program. Then run a full system scan.

If you are unable to remove Home Malware Cleaner, you can use this manual removal instruction. Use it at your own risk. If you don't have strong computer knowledge you could harm your operating system. Use it only if you are an experienced computer user. (Instructions on how to end processes, remove registry entries...)

End these Home Malware Cleaner processes:

random.exe

Remove these Home Malware Cleaner registry entries:

HKCU\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\URL

Delete these Home Malware Cleaner files:

%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\14.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\3178.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\46.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\6113.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\HS2d7_231.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\HSE.ico
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\HSESys
%AllUsersProfile%\<random characters>\Quarantine Items
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE\HSLGILTOGE.cfg
%AppData%\Home Malware Cleaner\
%AppData%\Home Malware Cleaner\Instructions.ini
%AppData%\Home Malware Cleaner\ScanDisk_.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Home Malware Cleaner.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 Malware Cleaner.lnk
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Home Malware Cleaner.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Home Malware Cleaner.lnk

General tips on removing Home Malware Cleaner:

*If you can't download anti-spyware software: Click on the download link, when the save dialog opens change the file name (example: when downloading mbam-setup.exe rename it to iexplore.exe).
*If you have installed anti-spyware program but you can't run it: Click Run, type %ProgramFiles% and press Enter. Open folder of your anti-spyware program, search for executable file and rename it. (example: Open Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware folder, right-click on the main executable file (mbam.exe) then click rename. Rename the mbam.exe file to iexplore.exe, winlogon.exe firefox.exe ...
*If you can't access your anti-spyware software, try creating a new user account:
Click Start -> Settings -> Control panel.
Click User Accounts and create a new account.
Reboot your computer and login using a newly created user account.
*After this procedure you should be able to access your anti-spyware programs. Update and run a full system scan.