subject: Best protect spy 2012 Virus Removal Instructions - How to manually remove protect spy 2012? [print this page] Best protect spy 2012 Virus Removal Instructions - How to manually remove protect spy 2012?
What is protect spy 2012 virus?
protect spy 2012 is a fake program which has been designed to extract money online. protect spy 2012 is similar to other rogue anti-spyware programs. It only attacks on computers that use XP operating system. It is not only dangerous for system performance but also for system security. This fake anti-virus program gets into user's computer without any privileges and performs several malicious actions to harm system security and performance.
This fake program can steal personal information from user's computer that is further used by author of this program for malicious purpose. It advertises commercial messages and reports fake security alert messages. It appears as pop-up on screen of infected system and mislead user's to purchase full version of it to remove virus from your system. But this claim is not true and it doesn't perform any positive action for user.
protect spy 2012 will also show a lot of alerts and notifications warning you about system errors and hardware failure. The alert may look like this:
Warning!
Name: firefox.exe
Name: c:program filesfirefoxfirefox.exe
Application that seems to be a key-logger is detected. System information security is at risk. It is recommended to enable the security mode and run total System scanning.
How to remove protect spy 2012 virus?
Now there are two methods for removal. Firstly you can use a trusted spyware removal tool or secondly you can remove it manually which may get a little tricky and isn't really recommended because the program may simply reinstall itself after you restart your PC, However here's the method below:
%Documents and Settings%[User_Name]Desktopprotect spy 2012.lnk
%Documents and Settings%[User_Name]Start MenuProgramsprotect spy 2012
%Documents and Settings%[User_Name]Start MenuProgramsprotect spy 2012protect spy 2012.lnk
%Documents and Settings%[User_Name]Start MenuProgramsprotect spy 2012Uninstall protect spy 2012.lnk
To remove protect spy 2012 and to remove rogue antivirus from your computer, get one of these antispyware programs to get rid of those annoying malwares.