subject: How to Get Rid of Security Master AV Antivirus? How to Remove Security Master AV Antivirus manually? How to remove Security Master AV Antivirus? [print this page] How to Get Rid of Security Master AV Antivirus? How to Remove Security Master AV Antivirus manually? How to remove Security Master AV Antivirus?
Security Master AV Antivirus is not a legitimate and Real Antispyware Program but itself a spyware, more precisely a new kind of rogue antispyware program from the same family of System Armor. The only difference being the core files are modified a little bit and the name is changed to hide it's detection by legitimate Antivirus programs installed on your PC.
This program is distributed with the help of trojans. When the trojan is started, it will automatically download and install Security Master AV Antivirus onto your computer without your consent and knowledge and configure it to run when you start Windows.
When Security Master AV Antivirus is started, it will imitate a system scan and detect a lot of various infections that will not be fixed unless you first purchase the program. Important to know, all of these reported infections are fake and don't actually exist on your computer! So you can safely ignore the scan results.
While Security Master AV Antivirus is running, it will block the ability to run any programs as a method to scare you into thinking that your computer is infected with malware.
The following warnings will be shown
Warning!
Identity theft attempt detected
Hidden Connection IP:
Security Risk: High
Target: Microsoft Corporation Keys
Warning! Virus detected
Threat Detected: Trojan-Spy.HTML.Citifraud
System alert
Suspicious software which may be malicious has been detected on your PC. Click here to remove this threat immediately using Security Master AV.
To help protect your computer, Windows web security have detected trojans and ready to remove them
How to remove Security Master AV antivirus manually?
Remove the following files and registry entries. If you do not have sufficient expertise in dealing with computer files, folders, processes, DLL files, services & registry entries, please take help from some one who can does this for you.
Click OK. This will being up the Windows Command Prompt.
NAVIGATE TO THE EXACT LOCATION OF DLL (On the command prompt window)
Like CD
Type "regsvr32 /u filename.dll to unregister.
Hit ENTER.
After you press ENTER, the confirmation window stating "DllUnregisterServer in (file name) succeeded" will be displayed.
As you can see, Security Master AV Antivirus is a scam that designed with one purpose to trick you into purchasing the so-called full version of the program. Do not fall for these virus creators bait into buying the Rogueware! and if you already have, you should contact your credit card company and dispute the charges.
And now coming back on How to Get Rid of Security Master AV Antivirus, you need a solid program to fix the damages, the rogue has caused. It alters files, folders,permissions and registry keys completely....to revive your PC from malicious trojans that may still reside and make your PC slow and to stop from getting re-infected.
When you try to fix this rogue, by running legitimate antivirus you encounter that app cannot be executed warning, task manager disabled, registry editing disabled etc..
Reimage works by comparing each and every OS system files with the correct files from a web repository of 25 million Windows components. (since Reimage works by comparing with correct file, it can easily find the hiding rootkit, infact this is what a rootkit remover dodumps a list of files from your hard disk drive and compares it with the list from the recovery console in order to find a hiding virus) This is the sole reason you can get a PC as good as new once you run Reimage, all other antivirus and antimalware programs just delete the virus.but they don't correct the damagewhich results in re-infection and slow performing PC.
Reimage first scans your computer thoroughly; all the files, folders, registry keys and values, drivers, softwares, stacks and then either repair or remove those stuffs that should be there. But it's not just that it does. They have an enormous web repository of application, drivers, system objects, etc. from where they compare your PC's files and if corrupted replace it with the healthy ones.