Virus Remover Professional is a bogus security application, fake spyware remover and rogue antivirus. It was tagged rogue because of misleading warning messages it will display on victims computer to be able to fool them in buying the said program. Virus Remover Professional and all its files must be removed immediately from computer.
What Virus Remover Professional Does?
It will display pop-up alerts, warning messages and run virus scan.
It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LastSun Ltd.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Uninstall\Virus Remover Professional_is1
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run “Virus Remover Profesional”
The threat will drop the following malicious files and directories:
- virusremover.exe
- unins000.exe
- Order Full Version NOW!.lnk
- Virus Remover Professional.lnk
- Visit Virus Remover Professional Homepage.lnk
- virusremover.exe
- Virus Remover Pro.lnk
- hp.url
- license.rtf
- order.url
- unins000.dat
- unins000.exe
- c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Virus Remover Professional
- c:\Documents and Settings\Bleeping\Application Data\LastSun Ltd
- c:\Documents and Settings\Bleeping\Application Data\LastSun Ltd\Virus Remover Profesional
- c:\Program Files\Virus Remover Professional
How to Remove Virus Remover Professional Manually
1. Restart your computer in SafeMode
– After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
– From the selections, Select SafeMode
2. Remove Registry entries that the threat added. You MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
– Click Start > Run
– Type in the field, regedit
– Navigate and look for the registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary
3. Delete malicious files that the threat added:
– Base on the given location above, browse and delete the file
– If no location is given, click Start>Search> and search for the file.
– If cannot be deleted, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access Task Manager, see if the file is running in the process. If it is, select the file and click End Process. Perform file delete again.
How to Easily Remove Virus Remover Professional
1. Print this procedure as we need to close all programs running later.
2. Download AntiMalware Application here and save it to your Desktop.
3. Close all open applications.
4. Double-Click on the downloaded mbam-setup.exe to start the installation. If unable to execute, infections on computer is preventing it from running, rename the file mbam-setup.exe to anything (like myfile.exe)
5. Run the installation on the default settings. No changes are necessary.
6. Just before completing the installation, make sure that the following are marked check.
– Update the program
– Launch the program
7. The tool will run and update itself after installation. Close it after the update.
8. Restart your computer in SafeMode
– After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
– From the selections, Select SafeMode
9. Click on the icon and start to Perform Full Scan to begin scanning your computer for Virus Remover Professional related files.
10. After scanning, a message will appear stating that the scan is completed successfully. Click OK.
11. Click Show Results and detected threats will be displayed.
12. Make sure that all threats are marked check, then click Remove Selected to begin removal of the malicious files.
13. Exit AntiMalware Apps and restart your computer.
14. Virus Remover Professional and all its files are now removed from your computer. To guard your computer from this threat and avoid future infections, you may want real-time protection from a full version of anti-malware program..
