Win Antispyware Center is fake anti-spyware program which imitates a legitimate antimalware application. It acts in the same manner as any other rogue software by trying to convince users to buy a license for the software. Win Antispyware Center enters a user’s computer via Trojans that get downloaded from websites which promote fake audio/video codec packs. These advertisers and scammers use social engineering techniques to trick users in to installing Win Antispyware Center on their computers. Once it has been installed, Win Antispyware Center starts performing fake system scans at regular intervals, returning results that claim that the user’s system is under serious threat. It also creates a number of harmless files that it later detects as dangerous viruses. Win Antispyware Center uses a Windows-style GUI and pop-ups generated from the Windows taskbar to convince users that this is the real thing. Then it claims that the currently installed ‘trial’ version is inadequate to remove the previously detected false ‘threats and urges the user the pay for the ‘full’ version of the software. However, the ‘full’ version is no more capable of cleaning a user’s system than the ‘trial’ version, therefore no user should ever purchase the false license to this rogue software.
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As soon as you detect a copy of this rogue software on your computer, you should remove it. In order to delete Win Antispyware Center, you need to stop its processes, delete its files and folders and remove its registry entries.
Win Antispyware Center Manual Removal Procedures
The first step you need to take in order to remove this is to stop the following process:
- av.exe
The next step in Win Antispyware Center removal is the deletion of the following files and folders:
- C:\Program Files\WinAntispywareCenter\
- C:\Program Files\WinAntispywareCenter\av.exe
After these steps have been completed, your computer’s hard disk no longer contains any instances of this virus.
Win Antispyware Center Registry Removal Proedures
File deletion alone is not sufficient to completely remove Win Antispyware Center. The following keys and settings should be removed from the registry for complete Win Antispyware Center removal:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\secfile
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Win Antispyware Center
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\secfile
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\WinAntispywareCenter\av.exe" /START "%1" %*
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Win Antispyware Center"
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Win Antispyware Center"
Now it is safe to say that your computer is completely safe from Win Antispyware Center. However, due to the many auxiliary malicious components that may be installed in parallel with some of the latest rogue security products it is recommended to scan your computer immediately upon infection with legitimate antivirus.
Win Antispyware Center Directories:
- C:\Program Files\WinAntispywareCenter
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