Windows Virtual Angel is a fake software claiming to be a legitimate antivirus program. It is a scamware that belongs to rogue virus family distributed and owned by hackers. The goal of creating and spreading sch fake viruses is to gain some extra money from innocent internet users by offering them to buy some non-existing system security and protection services. It would not be any wrong if your call devil to the nasty “Windows Virtual Angel” malware because it will really bring a havoc to your PC if entered.
There are several malicious websites hosted by malware creators that use Trojans to download the Windows Virtual Angel and other viruses into computers. They use rogue tactics to install this virus, moreover this infection is done very secretly and without user permission and consent. So you wont notice when the virus is being downloaded. Once your PC is infected, Windows VirtualAngel will start fake campaign to raise funds. It will start from displaying a windows that will act like it is scanning your computer for malwares. After a few minutes, it will generate a report about your system security that will surely tell you that Windows Virtual Angel has found some really harmful viruses on your PC. It will keep displaying alerts and warning continuously until you remove it. You should not pay attention to its alerts popups, take an immediate action to remove Windows Virtual Angel, instead.
Please remember, Windows Virtual Angel is totally a useless and bogus application that cannot help your computer in any way. It is just designed to fool people around and ask them to pay for its registered version. If you do not remove this virus from your computer, it will mess your system by displaying unwanted and annoying popups, it will steal your private data, it will trick you into buying useless programs that is a waist of money, it may also disable some important windows features like Regedit tool and task manager. Thus it is recommended to get rid of Windows Virtual Angel virus as soon as possible.
How to uninstall Windows Virtual Angel 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 Virtual Angel processes:
Protector.exe
Remove Windows Virtual Angel 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 Virtual Angel files:
%AppData%\Protector.exe
Auto Removal
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