Windows Profound Security virus – how to uninstall manually

Windows Profound Security is not a real antivirus software as it claims but it is a rogue virus created by hackers. This program is distrubuted and owned by malware creators who are willing to take your money. For this purpose, they install the malicious “Windows Profound Security” virus onto your computer using bad websites and Trojans without your permission, then they make your believe that Windows ProfoundSecurity is a legitimate system protection software so you might buy its license.

Your computer may get infected by this virus from malicious websites that mostly offer free online virus scans. Once your system has got this bug, you,ll be told that Windows Profound Security is an antivirus software certified by Microsoft and is installed on your PC. Then whenever your reboot your machine, this program will appear and will act like it is scanning your computer for viruses. Soon after it will generate a very scary report about your systemn security stating that Windows Profound Security has detected dangerous malwares and hacker attacks to your PC. Hence you,ll keep seeing annoying popup alerts on your screen continuously warning you that computer is in danger, you have to prevent these identity theft and virus attacks. you,ll also see a button link on Windows Profound Security software offering you to use its services to PREVENT ATTACK. Do not trust this program, if you click this tricky button, it will ask you to pay the registration fee to activate the full protection. That is the target of this program. Please remember, Windows Profound Security is not only a scam but it will ruin your PC with unwanted popup adverts, it will block your windows several functions like REGEDIT tool and task manager. It may also steal your private data to pass it to hackers. Its recommended to get rid of this virus as soon as possible.

How to remove Windows Profound Security virus manually:

To remove this virus manually, complete the following set of tasks. Do not forget to create a backup before getting started to the manual removal guide.
To prform manual removal steps, you may need to learn,
How to stop a process
How to delete registry entries

Stop Windows Profound Security processes:
Protector.exe

Remove Windows Profound Security Registry Entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ERROR_PAGE_BYPASS_ZONE_CHECK_FOR_HTTPS_KB954312
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegistryTools” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Inspector”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings “ID” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings “net” = “2012-2-17_2″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings “UID” = “rudbxijemb”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\_avp32.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\_avpcc.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\ashDisp.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\divx.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\mostat.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\platin.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\tapinstall.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\zapsetup3001.exe

Delete Windows Profound Security files:
%AppData%\Protector.exe

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