System Security Virus Pop-Up Display
There are a number of rogue antispyware and antivirus programs on the Internet now a days. One of the particularly nasty ones is the System Security virus. If your computer gets infected by System Security, it’s going to make your operating system unstable and will result in additional malware being installed on your computer.
What Does System Security Spyware Do?
Once your computer gets infected by the System Security Virus the malware will:
- Get past your antivirus and antispyware software. Some of the latest versions of these programs will catch the attempted infection, but not all of them. If it does get past them, it will disable the well-known antivirus program control panels.
- Will block opening your registry editor, task manager, and accessing the DOS command prompt.
- Try to prevent you from installing new anti-virus programs on your computer to remove the malware.
- Attempt to Disable online virus scans to keep you from using that medium to fix or clean System Security.
System Security Virus Symptoms
System security will display the “Security System Firewall Alert” on your computer whenever you are online. It will also generate a randomly named executable in the “Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\random numbers\random numbers .exe” directory. When you restart the computer it will prevent you from accessing the registry during reboot to clean the virus.
Removing System Security 2009 Manually
You’ll likely not have any luck removing System Security automatically with your anti-virus program. Definitely try that route first. If it fails, then you can manually remove the infection, but please seek advise of a professional if you are not experienced at registry modifications. First, reboot your computer in Windows Safe mode by rapidly depressing the “F8″ keyboard function key during the rebooting process. Then, delete the following files from your computer:
%\Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\00308937\pc00308937ins %\Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\00308937\00308937.exe %\Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\00308937\config.udb %UserProfile%\Desktop\System Security 2009.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\System Security\System Security 2009 Support.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\System Security\System Security 2009.lnk
Then, remove the following entries from your computer’s registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\00308937 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “00308937″ HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SystemSecurity2009
After you’re done, reboot your computer normally and attempt to run your anti-virus program to check for additional infections on your computer.
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