Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Effectively Remove/Uninstall Windows Antivirus Booster from XP/Vista/Win7/8



Windows Antivirus Booster keeps displaying some security warnings on your computer? And you are advised to purchase its latest version so that you can get rid of detected viruses? Watch out! Windows Antivirus Booster is a faker that should be removed from your computer.

How Does Windows Antivirus Booster Access Your Computer?


1) By downloading free programs and files from certain unauthorized websites.
2) By unzipping some attachments and files from spam email attachments.
3) By visiting dubious websites and clicking unreliable pop-up ads.

Is It Dangerous to Get The Installation of Windows Antivirus Booster?


Windows Antivirus Booster is a fake antivirus tool designed by hackers for carrying out evil activities on computers. As soon as this false program is added to your Windows, Windows Antivirus Booster will show you a plenty of unreal security warnings. In fact, this bogus antivirus program has no ability to detect any viruses for you. It just mutates some functions of a legit anti-spyware to run a fake scan on your PC so that it is able to mislead you.

If you are not acquainted with the features of Windows Antivirus Booster, you might be cheated. Provided that you want to use this fake antivirus program to remove potential threats, you also need to spend 99.9 dollars on its latest version. It is obvious that Windows Antivirus Booster aims at cheating your money. In addition to deceiving you, this malicious program causes great harm to your operating system.


It changes the settings of your system so that it can run in the background smoothly. Additionally, your firewall and antivirus program will be turned off forcibly. As a consequence, some system vulnerabilities are exposed. Unluckily, your computer would get infected with worms, Trojan horses and other computer viruses. For the sake of avoiding various attacks, we suggest that you get rid of Windows Antivirus Booster.

How to Remove Windows Antivirus Booster?


It is a bad news that Windows Antivirus Booster can’t be cleaned out by some popular antivirus tools. All executable files of this bogus antivirus program are hard to be located as they have a capability to mask as regular system files. To remove it successfully, you have to use manual removal method. Please follow the guide step by step to eliminate Windows Antivirus Booster.

Step 1: Restart the computer, keep pressing F8 till the option appears, and then use arrow keys to select Safe Mode with Networking.

Step 2: End related processes of Windows Antivirus Booster. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.


Step 3: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.


Step 4: Delete all files related to Windows Antivirus Booster as below:

%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\[random].exe
%System Root%\Samples
%User Profile%\Local Settings\Temp
%AppData%\.exe
%CommonAppData%\.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\.exe
%temp%\.exe
C:\Program Files\

Step 5: Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor. Then remove registries of Windows Antivirus Booster as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\MSASCui.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msconfig.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msmpeng.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%AppData%\.exe"

Step 6: Restart your computer