How to remove Red Cross Antivirus

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at 10:37 am
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Red Cross Antivirus description

Red Cross Antivirus is one of the rogue programs promoted by the Fake Microsoft Security Essentials. The security center is actually a smartly masked trojan which delivers malicious software. Red Cross Antivirus is identical to other fake tools delivered by the trojan: Peak Protection 2010, Pest Detector 4.1, Major Defense Kit and AntiSpySafeguard. Do not fall for the tricks of Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert and do not install Red Cross Anti Virus!

Red Cross Antivirus reboots a computer and launches itself before a desktop is loaded. It generates counterfeit security alerts about potential threats. Red Cross Antivirus offers deleting the imaginary infections after the purchasing of the paid version. The full version is another hoax as it doesn’t exist, but the scammers will charge you for it anyway. Remove Red Cross Antivirus as soon as possible and do not waste your money for such a scam.

Red Cross Antivirus blocks regular applications. It loads the following message instead of a program:

The application [program name].exe was launched successfully but it was forced to shut down due to security reasons.
This happened because the application was infected by a malicious program which might pose a threat for the OS.
It is highly recommended to install the necessary heuristic module and perform a full scan of your computer to exterminate malicious programs from it.

Red Cross Antivirus is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove Red Cross Antivirus

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

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

Red Cross Antivirus manual removal instructions

Stop and remove Red Cross Antivirus processes:
antispy.exe
defender.exe
tmp.exe
exe.exe Read more how to kill Red Cross Antivirus processes

Locate and delete Red Cross Antivirus registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PAV
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnonBadCertRecving" = "0"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnPostRedirect" = "0"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "tmp"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce "SelfdelNT"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” = "%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe" Read more how to delete Red Cross Antivirus registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Red Cross Antivirus

Detect and delete other Red Cross Antivirus files:
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PAV\
%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\defender.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\tmp.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\exe.exe

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

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11 Responses to

Red Cross Antivirus

  1. Bill Osborn
    September 6th, 2010 at 10:07 pm

    red cross antivirus has shut down my laptop computer how do i go about getting it back on and how do i remove red cross antivirus software without loosing everything on my computer

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    Steven Reply:
    September 22nd, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    When I had it, every time I clicked “Hide” or closed the program with task manager, it would automatically open Windows Explorer… From there you can get access to the control panel (search for it if you can’t find it).

    I started a new profile on my computer, which I set as an administrator. Red Cross didn’t seem to affect this new profile, and setting it as an admin gave me access to my original.
    Hope this helps you.

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  2. Chris Brady
    September 26th, 2010 at 12:05 pm

    I was able to remove it after some work. Booting up the PC loads the ’scanner’ first which only lets you click on ’safe start’. This starts the fake scan. While it was ’scanning’, I was able to open the task manager via ctrl/alt/dlt and kill the application. The PC would not finish booting from there, but I ran a manual task: “explorer” which finished the boot up without the virus running and then let me get on the net. I hope this helps you.

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    Mike Comer Reply:
    October 5th, 2010 at 7:45 pm

    Thank’s Chris , didn’t think about “explorer”. Thank’s again for the help!

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  3. anton
    October 7th, 2010 at 4:28 pm

    i get into system through safe mode with internet.
    and find your side. red cross f..ing *) program.
    it s allowed even open any inter. program
    trying to kill by your free scaner.

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  4. Tony
    October 10th, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    How do you do a manual Task ” explorer”

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