Green Shield Antivirus

There are over a thousand copy of rogue program that has been sold world-wide and earned a lot for its developers. One of this is the recently released Green Shield Antivirus. It was known to penetrate and get installed on the computer unanticipated by the user. How it was done? Another Trojan will launch prior to the rogue, the purpose is only to infect Internet browser of the contracted computer so that it will be redirected to a fake virus scanner web site. This web site bears the look of your local Windows Explorer so that you might think that scanning is run locally. In fact, this is an HTML file designed to fool computer users.

After the scan, this web page will display a barrage of infected files and asked you to download a copy of Green Shield Antivirus. Although, other buttons will constitute the same objective. After installation, the only objective yet to accomplish is to persuade you into purchasing the registered version of Green Shield Antivirus.

To Remove Green Shield Antivirus:

1. Download CCleaner here and save to a location on your computer. Next is rkill.com from here and lastly MalwareBytes AntiMalware from this page. Get these files on to the CD or USB Flash drive. This will later be use to clean the infected computer.

2. Go to the affected system and boot it is Safe Mode, this can be done by pressing the F8 key repeatedly once turned on. You will have the choices on how you would like Windows to be loaded. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking.” It will take some time before the selected choices is loaded. A “Safe Mode” desktop will show a different and minimal configuration.

3. Install CCleaner, just follow the prompts and install with default settings. After installation, click on Cleaner button located on the left pane and select Run Cleaner. This tool will delete unnecessary files from the computer including temp files, cookies and recycle bin.

4. Go to the folder where rkill is located, it was designed to stop any malicious process running on the infected computer. Again, this will take time, but be patience, this step is important in successfully removing Security Suite virus processes.

5. Install MalwareBytes’ AntiMalware, proceed with the default settings on the setup. It will prompt if you want to update its database after the installation, please click Yes. MBAM will download needed updates and will restart once finished. On the interface, be sure that you are on “Scanner” tab. Select Perform Full Scan and click on Scan to start cleaning your system. When scan is complete, it will will display a button, click Show Results to view infected files detected. Select all and click on Remove Selected to start deleting malicious files. This will be the final step in removing the threat. Restart the computer and all you have to do is to make sure that you will have a protection this time. Install an antivirus and anti-malware program. Set them to automatically update to have the fresh definition files. Always install Windows and other software updates that will patch any vulnerabilities on the computer.