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Is your computer infected with Thinkpoint antivirus? Are you frustrated with trying a bundle of powerful antivirus program in vain? Here I will introduce an effective guide to help you completely remove Thinkpoint.
Thinkpoint is a typical rogue antivirus, which comes bundled with the notorious fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert scam. Thinkpoint pretends to be a genuine antivirus but itself is a rogue program responsible for all those messes on your computer. You might be confused about how you get in the trap, but the following are the hoaxes composed by Thinkpoint which you cannot be too familiar with:
1. Thinkpoint abruptly pup-up the moment you log in without your permission
2. Thinkpoint runs quickly scan and generate a report to tell you that your computer is infected with a mass of virus, Trojans, and spyware etc.
3. There are indicates misleading you to buy a licensed Thinkpoint to fix the chaos.
4. Whenever you try to open any program, it says infected
5. You are not able to navigate the internet because Thinkpoint purchase site redirects always.
6. Thinkpoint cause your computer slowing down and even crashing from time to time
In order to get off this nightmare, you will need to delete ThinkPoint as soon as possible to prevent severer problem. Bundles of removal guides online on how to remove Thinkpoint with ease on the internet finally lead you to use programs to remove it. However hard you try, the virus still runs wild in your computer. Those antivirus programs like Spyware Doctor, Spy Hunter, PC Tools that claim can remove Thinkpoint completely can't even get a trace of it, and Malwarebyte Anti-malware might be able to scan some of the infected files but can't do anything with them. Usually most of the rogue programs can escape antivirus with reputation.
But what do we do to remove Thinkpoint? Before running a full scan with Malwarebyte Anti-malware, we need to go through the manual guide following:
1. Reboot your computer in safe mode with networking
2. Stop Thinkpoint progresses in task manager:
hotfix.exe
thinkpoint.exe
3. Open the Registry Editor, search for the Thinkpoint registry keys listed below and delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon "Shell" = "%Documents and Settings%[UserName]Application Datahotfix.exe"
4.The Thinkpoint associated files to be deleted are as follow:
%UserProfile%Application Datahotfix.exe
%UserProfile%Application Datahinkpoint.exe
%UserProfile%Application Datainstall
The manual removal of Thinkpoint requires sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes,.dll files and registry entries, please be careful when you try to Thinkpoint fake antivirus and com to http://www.teesupport.com/services/ for further instruction.
