Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How to Uninstall/Remove Windows Efficiency Kit Rogue Antivirus



Do you find that there are some suspicious programs appear when Windows Efficiency Kit is installed onto your machine? And is it annoying that Windows Efficiency Kit advises you to purchase its latest version each time you open your PC? From this post you will recognize Windows Efficiency Kit further.

The Harm of Windows Efficiency Kit 

1) It adds itself to start-up items so as to run with your PC.
2) It displays many pop-ups and installs a number of unwanted programs.
3) It disables your installed firewall and antivirus program secretly.
4) It takes up lots of back-end resources to slow down computer performance.

Learn More about Windows Efficiency Kit 

You should remove Windows Efficiency Kit if you already installed this rogue antivirus onto your computer. As you see, this kind of fake antivirus program always keeps warning you that your computer is infected with many viruses. Besides, its scan report is not real in fact. For persuading you to get rid of so-called threats immediately, Windows Efficiency Kit scares you and misleads you into paying for its latest version. Provided that you pay for money to update Windows Efficiency Kit, the pop-up warnings still keep annoying you. To be frank, Windows Efficiency Kit created by hackers just wants to swindle money out of you.
It is a terrible thing that Windows Efficiency Kit stays on your workstation greatly. It not only disables your default antivirus program but also distributes a bunch of viruses like worms, ransom viruses and Trojan horses onto the Windows operating system. That is why you are always puzzled by random computer problems. In addition, your computer shows you a high CPU usage even if you don’t run any programs. As soon as you open certain programs at the same time, the infected Windows will get stuck easily. It is noted that this rogue antivirus program also blocks you from connecting to the Internet form time to time. Also, you meet with computer crash from time to time when the poor machine is infected seriously.

Windows Efficiency Kit Rogue Antivirus Special Removal Guide

Before you begin to remove the files and registry entries of Windows Efficiency Kit, you should be more careful and patient. You might have difficulty finding its related files during the course of removal because Windows Efficiency Kit can hide its files deeply.

Step 1:
(1) Press F8 key to enter the Safe Mode with Networking before you enter normal mode.

Step 2:
(1) Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time to open Task Manger.
(2) Select processes related to Windows Efficiency Kit and click End Process button.
 
Step 3:
(1) Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel.
(2) Use the search bar to look for Folder Option.
(3) Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.

Step 4:
(1) Delete all files related to Windows Efficiency Kit.

%AppData%\svc-<random>.exe
%AppData%\data.sec

Step 5:
(1) Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor.
(2) Find out and remove registries of Windows Efficiency Kit.
 


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpCmdRun.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MpUXSrv.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SPP
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\bckd
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes" = ".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;
.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation" = 1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "GuardSoftware" = %AppData%\svc-<random>.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin" = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system "EnableVirtualization" = 0


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