Windows Maintenance Suite is a fake program that can be a bad headache if entered into your computer. It is a rogue virus that represents itself as a legitimate program designed for windows maintenance and optimization, moreover it also claims to be owned and created by Microsoft corporation but infact “Windows Maintenance Suite” is a virus and scamware which has no relation with Microsoft. All its promises to fix your PC are false. This piece of software is a malware and it should be treated like a virus. Do not let it be there in your computer, take immediate action to get rid of Windows MaintenanceSuite.
There are several hackers online willing to swindle your money away. They make some scamware tools to be sold to innocent people. And to sell these fake softwares, they use malicious tactics. Windows Maintenance Suite is also designed to extort your money. First of all, They use Trojans to install Windows Maintenance Suite virus on a computer. The installation of this program is done without user consent and permission. After the install completes, virus will make some modifications in infected computer such as it will disable your Task manager and windows registry editor. It will set itself for auto startup. Then it will display bunch of unwanted popups on your screen stating that Windows Maintenance Suite is a protection software installed on your computer and it has found some dangerous virus threats on your machine. It will try to scare you of viruses and will try to convince you that you need a powerful anti-spyware program to fix your PC. At this point, Windows Maintenance Suite will promote itself, it will ask the user to use their services to get rid of malwares from your computer. Once a user falls for this tricky campaign and chooses to remove virus with the help of Windows Maintenance Suite, it will ask the user to pay the registration fee for full version of this software because you are using a trial version as yet. Please never trust Windows Maintenance Suite , its alerts and its promotions. It is a hundred percent useless and fake program. It is recommended to remove it as soon as possible.
How to remove Windows Maintenance Suite 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 Maintenance Suite processes:
Protector-[rnd].exe
Disable Windows Maintenance Suite DLL files:
npswf32.dll Remove these Windows Maintenance Suite 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 Maintenance Suite files:
%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe
Auto Removal
To remove this virus Automatically, We suggest following tools:
Malware Bytes Anti-Malware (Download)
HitMan Pro Anti-Malware (Download)
