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How to remove Shield Safeness rogue anti-spyware

Malware Description:
Shield Safeness (also known as ShieldSafeness) is the recent representative of WiniGuard rogueware family which also includes such malware programs as SoftSafeness, Soft Cop and Soft Soldier. Shield Safeness makes it onto one’s PC stealthily and without observing any authentication rules like a normal program would. Having got inside, Shield Safeness makes some slight yet significant modifications to the Registry and the files of the compromised machine. This will result in forcing the challenged system to launch Shield Safeness executables every time the PC boots up. You will receive lots of Shield Safeness false ads and fabricated scanners all of which claim your computer is in danger and contains numerous signs of spyware, viruses and other threats. Those alerts and scan results are totally faked so please do not regard them to be worthy of your trust. Shield Safeness deliberately displays fabricated detection reports to persuade you into buying its commercial copy which is stated to be able to help you out with all those ‘detected’ computer parasites. The most essential advice you can get is to ignore Shield Safeness ads and remove the program immediately if evidences of its presence get noticed on your PC. Please, get some additional instructions on Shield Safeness removal below.

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 Shield Safeness manually:
Manual removal of Shield Safeness 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%\All Users\Desktop\ShieldSafeness.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ShieldSafeness
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ShieldSafeness\1 ShieldSafeness.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ShieldSafeness\2 Homepage.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ShieldSafeness\3 Uninstall.lnk
• %Program Files%\ShieldSafeness Software
• %Program Files%\ShieldSafeness Software\ShieldSafeness
• %Program Files%\ShieldSafeness Software\ShieldSafeness\ShieldSafeness.exe
• %Program Files%\ShieldSafeness Software\ShieldSafeness\uninstall.exe
• %WINDOWS%\10246h9zktool4d5.exe
• %WINDOWS%\10359virzs509.cpl
• %WINDOWS%\10380ha95tozl126.bin
• %WINDOWS%\10623spy65z9.bin
• %WINDOWS%\system32\2ed19pyz5re2156.bin
• %WINDOWS%\system32\2f53vir193z.bin
• %WINDOWS%\system32\2z075t59j48c.exe
• %Temp%\unp4.tmp.exe

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

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ShieldSafeness
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ShieldSafeness
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ShieldSafeness
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “unp4.tmp.exe”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “ShieldSafeness”

Please, be aware that manual removal of Shield Safeness 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 Shield Safeness, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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