Advanced PC Shield 2012
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Whats is Advanced PC Shield 2012?
Recent discovery of rogue software called Advanced PC Shield 2012 makes the web an unsafe place once more. Advanced PC Shield 2012 may appear as a useful program, but what lies behind it is a selfish motive of the author. This software is malicious. Its intention is to steal money from victims by disguising as legitimate security application. Once it is installed on the system, Advanced PC Shield 2012 will engage self in protecting your PC from virus attacks. It constantly present a number of security warnings like this:
Virus infection!
System security was found to be compromised. Your computer is now infected. Attention, irreversible changes may occur. Private data may be stolen.
Click here now for an instant anti-virus scan.
The above may look like a real alert showing concerns over your security but it discreetly misleading you toward its objective. You’ll only realize its danger when it starts to intensify its presence with repetitive display of identical alerts. Advanced PC Shield 2012 also makes your installed anti-virus application to stop on responding. Any software on your PC will remain useless until you purchase the registration key for Advanced PC Shield 2012.
Direct contact with Advanced PC Shield 2012 can be cause by a Trojan infection. Additionally, this rogue program is likely to get inside the system by visiting web site put-up by its own developer. The web site purpose is to infect visitors through a drive-by-download method. Being aware of this propagation method helps you avoid the Advanced PC Shield 2012 virus.
| Type | Rogue |
| Sub-Type | FakeAV |
| Aliases | System Tool |
| OS Affected | Windows |
What are the Symptoms of Advanced PC Shield 2012 Infection?
This potentially unwanted application will perform a virus scan even without user’s intervention. Dozens of infection is detected. To remove these threats, users must register the program first.
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Technical Information
The malware will run with the process:
(random).exe
Malicious files created by Advanced PC Shield 2012 are the following:
%LocalAppData%\(random).exe
%StartMenu%\Programs\Advanced PC Shield 2012\
%StartMenu%\Programs\Advanced PC Shield 2012\Buy Advanced PC Shield 2012.lnk
%StartMenu%\Programs\Advanced PC Shield 2012\Launch Advanced PC Shield 2012.lnk
%System%\drivers\(random).sys
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Buy Advanced PC Shield 2012.lnk
Advanced PC Shield 2012 will create the following registry entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\(random)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Ranges\Range1 “*” = ’1′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Ranges\Range1 “:Range” = ’127.0.0.1′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “(random).exe”
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How to Remove Advanced PC Shield 2012
Instructions
[donotprint]It would be a little comfortable if you will [print_link] as we need to restart the computer during the cleaning process.[/donotprint]
Tools Required To Remove Advanced PC Shield 2012
- MalwareBytes Anti-Malware (go to Download Protection tab)
- Norton Power Eraser (go to Download Protection tab)
You need to download the tool from specified link. Save the file to a convenient location on your hard drive or USB drive. If Advanced PC Shield 2012 obstruct the download process, you need to obtain the needed files using another computer. Alternatively, you can proceed to Troubleshoooting tab on this area and proceed with the Internet Connection fix first.
If in case it blocks the execution of the downloaded files, please rename it before running on the affected computer.
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