Remove Rogue Win 7 Antivirus 2012

Remove Rogue Win 7 Antivirus 2012

What this infection does:

Win 7 Antispyware 2012, Vista Antivirus 2012, and XP Security 2012 are all names for the same rogue anti-spyware program. This family of rogues is promoted in two ways. The first is through the use of fake online antivirus scanners that state that your computer is infected and then prompt you to download a file that will install the infection. The other method are hacked web sites that attempt to exploit vulnerabilities in programs that you are running on your computer to install the infection without your knowledge or permission. Regardless of how it is installed, once it is running on your computer it will install itself as a variety of different program names and graphical user interfaces depending on the version of Windows that is running. Regardless of the name, though, they are all ultimately the same program with just a different skin on it. This rogue goes by different program names, which I have listed below based upon the version of Windows that it is installed on:

When installed, this rogue pretends to be a security update for Windows installed via Automatic Updates. It will then install itself as a single executable that has a random consisting of three characters, such as kdn.exe, that uses very aggressive techniques to make it so that you cannot remove it. First, it makes it so that if you launch any executable it instead launches Vista Home Security 2012, XP Internet Security 2012, Win 7 Security 2012, or any of the other names it goes under. If the original program that you wanted to launch is deemed safe by the rogue, it will then launch it as well. This allows the rogue to determine what executables it wants to allow you to run in order to protect itself. It will also modify certain keys so that when you launch FireFox or Internet Explorer from the Window Start Menu it will launch the rogue instead and display a fake firewall warning stating that the program is infected.

Fix Shell:

https://briteccomputers.co.uk/downloads/FixRegistryNCR.reg

Rogue killer:

https://tigzy.geekstogo.com/Tools/RogueKiller.exe

HiJackfree:

https://download3.emsisoft.com/a2HiJackFree.exe

Rkill:

https://download.bleepingcomputer.com/grinler/iExplore.exe

Malwarebytes:

https://store.malwarebytes.org/342/cookie?affiliate=1878&redirectto=http%3a%2f%2fdownload.bleepingcomputer.com%2fmalwarebytes%2fmbam-setup.exe&product=29945

Full removal guide by

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can be found here:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-win-7-antispyware-2012

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