How to remove Vista Antispyware

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Vista Antispyware description

Vista Antispyware is a fake security application that may also appear as XP Antispyware or Win 7 Antispyware. The fraud adjusts its name to victims’ operating systems in order to appear a real and legitimate application.

Vista Antispyware presents itself as a security application. It delivers lots of infections alerts and system scan reports that usually interrupt functions of other programs. VistaAntispyware warnings may look real as they are designed to mimic Windows notifications. However, none of the pop-ups delivered by Vista Anti Spyware bring real information. Vista Antispyware fabricates the alerts in order to intimidate people into buying the program.

Vista Antispyware is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove Vista Antispyware

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

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

Vista Antispyware manual removal instructions

Stop and remove Vista Antispyware processes:
pw.exe
MSASCui.exe
Read more how to kill Vista Antispyware processes

Locate and delete Vista Antispyware registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\pezfile
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\pezfile
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\pw.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\pezfile\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\pw.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\pw.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\pezfile\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\pw.exe" /START "%1" %*
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\pw.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\pw.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\pw.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 Vista Antispyware registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Vista Antispyware

Detect and delete other Vista Antispyware files:
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\opRSK
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\pw.exe
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\MSASCui.exe
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\opRSK
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\pw.exe
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\MSASCui.exe

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

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