Windows Interactive Security is a misleading program designed to deceive people online and take their money. This virus belongs to rogue spyware family and it is installed on your computer without your consent with the help of Trojans. Once this nasty bug has got access to your machine, it will appear on your desktop screen and will pretend to be a Microsoft certified antivirus software. It will start scanning your computer automatically when the infected PC logs in to windows. After a few minutes, the fake scanner utility of “Windows Interactive Security” virus will display some false reports about system security. You,ll be told that your computer is under danger of harmful viruses, Windows Interactive Security has detected these malwares, you must remove them very soon to protect your computer from further damages. But be patient, you should not be worried about these warnings as they are false reports.
Windows Interactive Security enters into a computer very secretly, then it tries its best to convince the user; that his computer is virus infected, he is using free version of Windows Interactive Security which has found these threats and to get rid of these viruses, user has to buy the full version of Windows Interactive Security to activate full protection. In short, the target of this program is to somehow sell the non-working security products like pro version of “Windows Interactive Security”. Please never pay for this software as it is a scamware. It cannot detect or remove malwares from your computer but it is a malicious virus itself that will steal your money, it will bother you with annoying and unwanted irritating popup alerts, it will steal your private data, it will disable your windows task manager and registry editor tool REGEDIT. Windows Interactive Security may also disable your current anti-spyware tool, its recommended to remove this threat as soon as possible.
How to uninstall Windows Interactive 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 Interactive Security processes:
Protector.exe
Disable Windows Interactive Security DLL files:
npswf32.dll
Remove Windows Interactive 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 Interactive Security files:
%AppData%\Protector.exe
Auto Removal
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