“System Protection Tools” is a malicious self installed program hailing from family of rogue virus. If your computer is infected with System Protection Tools malware, it must be acting to be a legitimate security software to help you protect your PC from viruses and spywares. Please remember, System Protection Tools is a fake program that should be treated as a virus and it should be uninstalled immediately from infected computer.
As i said it is a self installed malware, this means you did`nt install this program but it is downloaded on computers with the help of Trojan from malicious websites. Once it has entered in your computer, it will act like a real antivirus software, it will start scanning your PC for viruses and will generate some very scary reports. You,ll see popup windows appearing on your screen claiming that System Protection Tools has found numerous viruses on your computer that must be removed very soon. Please do not trust the fake System Protection Tools bug. It has no ability to detect or remove any kind of malwares. It is just a scamware tool that wants to steal your money by scaring your of virus threats and then it asks you to pay the virus removal fee. It will trick you into buying the full version of System Protection Tools to get rid of viruses. Please ignore such promotions and alerts. You should take an immediate action to remove the nasty System ProtectionTools virus.
How to uninstall System Protection Tools virus manually:
Removing System Protection Tools is not that difficult, To remove this virus manually, complete the following set of tasks.
To prform manual removal steps, you may need to learn,
How to stop a process
How to delete registry entries
Stop System Protection Tools processes:
[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
Delete System Protection Tools Registry Entries:
HKEY..\..\{Value}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Best Antivirus Software = “%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe” /s /d
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\[RANDOM].exe\Debugger = svchost.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\..{RunKeys}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun = 01000000
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\[1...15]
Delete System Protection Tools files:
%AppData%\System Protection Tools\
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\System Protection Tools.lnk
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]
%UserProfile%\Desktop\System Protection Tools\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\System Protection Tools\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\System Protection Tools.lnk
Auto Removal
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