How to remove MaCatte Antivirus 2009

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 1:37 am

MaCatte Antivirus 2009 description

MaCatte Antivirus 2009 is a hoax trying to mimic design of McAfee program in order to trick people into buying the app. Don’t mistake McAfee for MaCatte Antivirus or the other way around. McAfee is pretty reputable security tool while MaCatte Anti virus 2009 is pure fraud.

MaCatteAntivirus2009

MaCatteAntivirus2009 generates large numbers of infection alerts and demands $99.99 for deleting the imaginary threats. The pop-ups are not only annoying; they also interrupt regular programs and web browsing. MaCatteAntivirus 2009 may hijack web browser.

MaCatte Antivirus2009 infects computers upon visiting malicious web sources, those usually are adult websites. It also spreads with help of trojans.

Get rid of MaCatte Antivirus 2009

MaCatte Antivirus 2009 is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove MaCatte Antivirus 2009

To remove MaCatte Antivirus 2009 spyware you must block MaCatte Antivirus 2009 sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other MaCatte Antivirus 2009 files and registry utility. Follow the MaCatte Antivirus 2009 detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove MaCatte Antivirus 2009 by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden MaCatte Antivirus 2009 files, running processes and registries in your computer, so MaCatte Antivirus 2009 may recreate all other files after reboot.

MaCatte Antivirus 2009 manual removal instructions

Block MaCatte Antivirus 2009 sites:
macatte.com Read more how to block MaCatte Antivirus 2009 sites

Stop and remove MaCatte Antivirus 2009 processes:
mcull.exe
msc.exe
msc.exe
mstdl.exe
Read more how to kill MaCatte Antivirus 2009 processes

Locate and delete MaCatte Antivirus 2009 registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\msca
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{459b6bf8-5320-4c41-8833-85baedf31086}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{A73890FC-177F-4198-AE3D-C64F7D9E69D8}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ControlPanel\NameSpace\{459b6bf8-5320-4c41-8833-85baedf31086}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{459b6bf8-5320-4c41-8833-85baedf31086}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{459b6bf8-5320-4c41-8833-85baedf31086}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\NetworkNeighborhood\NameSpace\{459b6bf8-5320-4c41-8833-85baedf31086}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce "msca"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "wsc"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "msc"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\msca
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WarnOnPost "0"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WarnOnPostRedirect "0"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\WarnonBadCertRecving "0"
Read more how to delete MaCatte Antivirus 2009 registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by MaCatte Antivirus 2009

Search and unregister MaCatte Antivirus 2009 DLL libraries:
WPtect.dll Read more how to unregister MaCatte Antivirus 2009 DLL files

Detect and delete other MaCatte Antivirus 2009 files:
C:\Program Files\msca\
C:\Program Files\msca\msc.exe
C:\Program Files\msca\msca.ico
C:\Program Files\msca\mstdl.exe
C:\Program Files\msca\Viruses.dat
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\msca
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\msca\msca.ico
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\msca\mcull.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\msca\msc.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\msca\Viruses.dat
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media\WPtect.dll
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\msca.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\msca
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\msca\msca.lnk
mcull.exe.old
msc.exe.old

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track MaCatte Antivirus 2009 and automaticaly remove MaCatte Antivirus 2009 processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.


Tags: , , , ,

Posted in Rogue Antispyware

Leave a Reply