Threat Information: Digital Protection is a fake anti-spyware program that tries to trick users by various methods in order to get them to purchase a license for the software. It is related to the notorious rogue programs User Protection and Your Protection. Digital Protection gets installed on a user’s system via Trojan viruses that get downloaded from websites with fake scanners and other malicious websites. Once installed, this rogue program loads itself at user logon and performs a large number of fake scans on the system, which return results that state that the computer is heavily infected with non-existent malware. Digital Protection will also display fake pop-up warnings from the Windows taskbar trying to warn the user that the system is under threat. Meanwhile, Digital Protection tries to convince the user to pay for the ‘full’ version of the software by claiming that the currently installed ‘trial’ version is incapable of removing the detected false ‘threats’. However, it should be remembered that the so-called ‘full’ version of Digital Protection is just as ineffective as the ‘trial’ version when it comes to cleaning any user’s system.
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It is important to delete Digital Protection as soon as you find a copy on your computer. Digital Protection removal involves the stopping of processes, unregistering of DLLs, deletion of files and folders and removal of registry entries.
Digital Protection Manual Removal Procedures
The first step you must take in order to remove Digital Protection is to stop the following processes:
- [random name].exe
- avp.exe
- digprot.exe
The next step in Digital Protection removal is to unregister the following DLL files:
- %WINDOWS%\System32\zq5e7t.dll
- %WINDOWS%\System32\vurrozj.dll
Next, it is necessary to delete the following files and folders:
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Desktop\Digital Protection Support.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Desktop\Digital Protection.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\About.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\Activate.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\Buy.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\Digital Protection Support.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\Digital Protection.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\Scan.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\Settings.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection\Update.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Digital Protection.lnk
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\about.ico
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\activate.ico
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\buy.ico
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\digprot.exe
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\help.ico
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\scan.ico
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\settings.ico
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\splash.mp3
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\uninstall.exe
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\update.ico
- %Program Files%\Digital Protection\virus.mp3
- %WINDOWS%\System32\zq5e7t.dll
- %WINDOWS%\System32\vurrozj.dll
- %WINDOWS%\Temp\avp.exe
- %WINDOWS%\Temp\[random name].exe
Digital Protection Registry Removal Proedures
File removal alone is not sufficient to completely remove Digital Protection. It is necessary to delete the following keys and settings from the registry as well:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Digital Protection
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Digital Protection
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “digprot.exe”
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “avp.exe”
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = “1?
Once these steps have been completed, you have successfully removed Digital Protection from your system.
Digital Protection Directories:
- %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Start Menu\Programs\Digital Protection
Outside Resources:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-digital-protection
http://www.geekpolice.net/t20795-remove-digital-protection-virus-removal-guide
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