How to remove Total Vista Security

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 5:51 am
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Total Vista Security description

Total Vista Security is a malware disguised as an oficial security tool for Windows Vista operating system. It’s basically the same fraud as XP Guardian and its clones.

Total VistaSecurity tricks people into purchasing the program by imitating system scan and security notifications. As the tool arrives secretly, it’s easy to mistake it for a Windows update. TotalVistaSecurity spreads with help of deceptive web sources and trojans. Once inside, it starts loading fabricated security alerts in order to deceive victims into thinking their computers are infected. Each counterfeit message invites buying TotalVista Security for deleting the imaginary threats. Don’t waste your money for such a scam and remove Total Vista Security with no hesitation.

Total Vista Security is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove Total Vista Security

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

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

Total Vista Security manual removal instructions

Stop and remove Total Vista Security processes:
av.exe Read more how to kill Total Vista Security processes

Locate and delete Total Vista Security registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\av.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\secfile\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\av.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\av.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\secfile\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\av.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\av.exe" /START "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\safemode\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\av.exe" /START "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -safe-mode
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\av.exe" /START "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center "AntiVirusOverride" = "1"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center "FirewallOverride" = "1"
Read more how to delete Total Vista Security registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Total Vista Security

Detect and delete other Total Vista Security files:
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\av.exe
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\REgth7834T
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\[Random]

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track Total Vista Security and automaticaly remove Total Vista Security processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.

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