Antimalware PC Safety

What is Antimalware PC Safety?

Antimalware PC Safety is a fake antivirus program derived from the same family of rogue security scanners as Smart Antimalware Protection, AV Security Essentials, and many others. Like its previous versions, Antimalware PC Safety imitates a legitimate security program called Microsoft Security Essentials.

Whilst Microsoft's program is free, however, Antimalware PC Safety encourages you to purchase a license to remove the 'detected' threats.

Antimalware PC Safety is a useless program that attempts to imitate a legitimate security program. It does not hold a virus definition database or scanning engine, and the processes that this program displays are fake.

When installed on your computer, Antimalware PC Safety generates multiple harmless files, and after imitating a security scan, reports that these files are high risk infections, which should be removed from your PC. When you click the 'Remove All' button, you are asked to purchase a license before it can supposedly remove the detected security threats.

Do not buy Antimalware PC Safety - it is a scam. The sole purpose of this fake program is to steal money from your credit card account.

Do not trust any security scans or warning messages displayed by Antimalware PC Safety, as they are designed to scare you into believing that your PC is highly infected with spyware/malware with the intention of selling you a license for a useless program.

Like its predecessors, Antimalware PC Safety is distributed by Cyber criminals who use various misleading methods to install rogue programs on users' computers.

This fake program is installed on computers without permission and violates users' privacy. Remove Antimalware PC Safety as soon as you notice it on your computer and using the removal guide provided.

The following fake security warning pop-up messages are generated by Antimalware PC Safety:

"System Alert malicious applications, which may contain Trojans, were found on your computer and can be removed immediately. Click here to remove these potentially harmful items using Antimalware PC Safety."

"Warning! Access conflict detected! An unidentified program is trying to access system process address space. Process Name: AllowedForm Location: C:\Windows\...\taskmgr.exe"

"Warning! Identity theft attempt detected."

"Warning! Virus detected Threat Detected: Trojan-PSW.VBS.Half Description: This is a VBScript-virus. It steals user's passwords."

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Quick menu:

• What is Antimalware PC Safety?
• STEP 1. Remove Antimalware PC Safety using a registration key.
• STEP 2. Remove Antimalware PC Safety using Safe Mode with Networking.
• STEP 3. Remove Antimalware PC Safety manually by deleting files and registry entries.

Antimalware PC Safety virus removal:

Before downloading, enter the Antimalware PC Safety registration key in the registration window. Click the Help icon (at the top right corner of the main window of Antimalware PC Safety), then click Register Now.

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If you cannot download or run the spyware remover, try running the registry fix (link below). It enables execution of programs. Download the registryfix.reg file, double click it, click YES, and then OK.

Antimalware PC Safety virus 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 the F8 key on your keyboard multiple times until you see the Windows Advanced Option menu, then select Safe Mode with Networking from the list.

Here is a video demonstrating how to start Windows in "Safe Mode with Networking":

Windows XP users:

Windows Vista / 7 users:

Windows 8 users:

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

 4. Download HijackThis and save it to 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 iexplore.exe and only then click the Save button.

After saving the file to your desktop, double click it. In the main HijackThis window click the “Do a system scan only” button. Select the following entry (place a tick at the left of the entry):

O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [Antimalware PC Safety] “%AllUsersProfile%\\_.exe” /s /d

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

5. Download legitimate anti-spyware software to fully remove Antimalware PC Safety from your computer.

6. After removing Antimalware PC, Safety reset your Hosts file. Do not skip this step, since this malware modifies your Hosts file and you will encounter browser redirect problems.

The Hosts file is used to resolve canonical names of websites to IP addresses. When it is changed, the user may be redirected to malicious websites, despite observing legitimate URLs in address bar.

It is difficult to determine if a site is genuine when the Hosts file is modified. To fix this, please download the Microsoft FixIt tool that restores your Hosts file to the Windows default.

Run this tool when downloaded and follow the on-screen instructions. Download link below:

Other tools known to remove Antimalware PC Safety:

• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

If you are unable to remove Antimalware PC Safety, you can use these manual removal instructions. Use them at your own risk, since if you do not have strong computer knowledge, you could harm your operating system.

Use them only if you are an experienced computer user. (Instructions on how to end processes, remove registry entries...)

End these Antimalware PC Safety processes:

random.exe

Remove these Antimalware PC Safety registry entries:

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

Delete these Antimalware PC Safety files:

%AllUsersProfile%\\
%AllUsersProfile%\\14.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\3178.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\46.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\6113.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\\HS2d7_231.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\\HSE.ico
%AllUsersProfile%\\HSESys
%AllUsersProfile%\\Quarantine Items
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE\HSLGILTOGE.cfg
%AppData%\Antimalware PC Safety\
%AppData%\Antimalware PC Safety\Instructions.ini
%AppData%\Antimalware PC Safety\ScanDisk_.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Antimalware PC Safety.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\Antimalware PC Safety.lnk
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Antimalware PC Safety.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Antimalware PC Safety.lnk

Antimalware PC Safety is a fake antivirus program derived from a family of similar rogues called FakeVimes. These are mostly proliferated using fake online security scanner pop-ups.

These fake pop-ups imitate security scans and detection of various security infections. After this process, you are advised to download and install Antimalware PC Safety to remove them.

Always carry out research before purchasing a security program for your computer, since the Internet is flooded with fake ones such as Antimalware PC Safety. Use the provided removal guide to remove this bogus program.

Summary:

The fake antivirus programs (also known as "rogue antivirus programs" or "scareware") are applications that tries to lure computer users into paying for their non-existent full versions to remove the supposedly detected security infections (although the computer is actually clean). These bogus programs are created by cyber criminals who design them to look as legitimate antivirus software. Most commonly rogue antivirus programs infiltrate user's computer using poop-up windows or alerts which appear when users surf the Internet. These deceptive messages trick users into downloading a rogue antivirus program on their computers. Other known tactics used to spread scareware include exploit kits, infected email messages, online ad networks, drive-by downloads, or even direct calls to user's offering free support.

A computer that is infected with a fake antivirus program might also have other malware installed on it as rogue antivirus programs often are bundled with Trojans and exploit kits. Noteworthy that additional malware that infiltrates user's operating system remains on victim's computer regardless of whether a payment for a non-existent full version of a fake antivirus program is made. Here are some examples of fake security warning messages that are used in fake antivirus distribution:

Computer users who are dealing with a rogue security software shouldn't buy it's full version. By paying for a license key of a fake antivirus program users would send their money and banking information to cyber criminals. Users who have already entered their credit card number (or other sensitive information) when asked by such bogus software should inform their credit card company that they have been tricked into buying a rogue security software. Screenshot of a web page used to lure computer users into paying for a non-existent full version of antimalware pc safety rogue and other rogue antivirus programs:

To protect your computer from antimalware pc safety rogue and other rogue antivirus programs users should:

• Keep their operating system and all of the installed programs up-to-date.
• Use legitimate antivirus and anti-spyware programs.
• Use caution when clicking on links in social networking websites and email messages.
• Don't trust online pop-up messages which state that your computer is infected and offers you to download security software.

Symptoms indicating that your operating system is infected with a fake antivirus program:

• Intrusive security warning pop-up messages.
• Alerts asking to upgrade to a paid version of a program to remove the supposedly detected malware.
• Slow computer performance.
• Disabled Windows updates.
• Blocked Task Manager.
• Blocked Internet browsers or inability to visit legitimate antivirus vendor websites.

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