How to remove Vista Defender Pro

Friday, March 19th, 2010 at 5:47 am
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Vista Defender Pro description

Creators of XP Defender Pro and Win 7 Defender Pro present Vista Defender Pro. The scam is identical to XPDefender Pro; the only difference is the name in the title. VistaDefender Pro makes it difficult to use a computer and requires paying for fixing the problem. Don’t purchase VistaDefenderPro for deleting infections it reports! The program itself is a malware. The alerts and scan results loaded by Vista Defender Pro are counterfeit.
Besides displaying enormous amounts of pop-ups, Vista Defender Pro also may hijack web browser and disable regular security tools.

Vista Defender Pro is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove Vista Defender Pro

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

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

Vista Defender Pro manual removal instructions

Stop and remove Vista Defender Pro processes:
av.exe
ave.exe
Read more how to kill Vista Defender Pro processes

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

Detect and delete other Vista Defender Pro files:
C:\ProgramData\QJyrk5wvCU1
C:\Users\All Users\QJyrk5wvCU1
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\av.exe
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\ave.exe
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\QJyrk5wvCU1
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\WRblt8464P
%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Temp\QJyrk5wvCU1
%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\QJyrk5wvCU1

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

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