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How to remove Security Essentials 2011 rogue anti-spyware

Malware Description:
According to our preliminary estimates, the rotation of Security Essentials 2011 software is a large-scale malware campaign that targets a huge audience of weakly protected computers worldwide. Security Essentials 2011 is a clone and a follower of the once widespread rogue security programs such as Internet Security 2010 and Security essentials 2010. We haven’t spotted many differences between these scam applications – they all even use the same old GUI (Graphical User Interface). Now, how do you get infected with Security Essentials 2011? This usually happens as a result of your online surfing that ended up on a potentially harmful or compromised site containing contagious scripts that may solely infect your machine. Security Essentials 2011 is also exploiting some blackhat SEO and search results poisoning. Actually, a little and stealthy trojan is enough to contaminate your computer completely in the long run. Having got on to your PC, Security Essentials 2011 will run bogus scanners that only pretend to check your computer for unsafe components. In fact, the rogueware just mimics malware detection routine in order to make you believe you are not safe from the cyber security viewpoint. Security Essentials 2011 also issues some system tray notifications and random popup alerts that also keep on informing you of multiple threat detection instances. This means, each time you happen to click on the ads triggered by this nefarious program, you will be redirected to some screen where the hackers want you to fill out and hand over your credit card details and finally purchase their malicious offspring, i.e. Security Essentials 2011 full version. Please do not ever pay for registering Security Essentials 2011. This app is definitely a counterfeit one so you should avoid it by all means. If this rogue antivirus has seized your computer system completely, you need to get rid of it using a legitimate AV utility. For this purpose, you may try to follow the Security Essentials 2011 uninstall guide provided below. In case you run into complications sticking to our recommendations due to the scareware’s interference, you should perform the cleaning procedure after booting into Safe Mode (it’s accessed through pushing F8 key repeatedly during PC startup).

Malware Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware

Malware Author: Unknown

Threat Level: Critical

Advice: Immediately remove and scan for additional malware

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How to remove Security Essentials 2011 manually:
Manual removal of Security Essentials 2011 is a feasible objective if you have sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries.

The files to be deleted are listed below:

• %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Desktop\Security Essentials 2011.LNK
• %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Start Menu\Security Essentials 2011.LNK
• %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Security Essentials 2011.LNK
• %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Application Data\Security Essentials 2011\
• %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Application Data\Security Essentials 2011\SE2010.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Application Data\Security Essentials 2011\[random_letters]\
• %Documents and Settings%\[User_Name]\Application Data\Security Essentials 2011\[random_letters]\[random_letters].cfg
• %Temp%\[random_letters].exe
• %Temp%\[random_letters].dll

The registry entries that need to be removed are as follows:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\SE2010
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\updatesst
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\shell
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\AntiVirusDisableNotify
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\FirewallDisableNotify
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Security Center\UpdatesDisableNotify

Please, be aware that manual removal of Security Essentials 2011 is a cumbersome process and does not always ensure complete deletion of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why we strongly recommend automatic removal Security Essentials 2011, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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