Manual Removal Guide for Winsoftware.WinAntiSpyware2005

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Winsoftware.WinAntiSpyware2005" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:

• trojan

Description:

connects to reliable stats at install and uninstall submitting unknown data over a SSL-connection. Installation does not finish properly if SSL-connection is not available.
Uninstall is incomplete, even if SSL connection is available.
Same company as Winfixer and WinAntiVirus 2005

Aggressive Advertising aimed at fooling the user, to make him buy the product.

Advertising implies, that the users computer is beeing scanned and threats are beeing found.

Software itself does not appear to be aimed at finding Spyware, instead it shows that the computer has no Spywareprotection, the basis for this "warning" is not known, since active Antispyware-Software was running during
testing. The warning is hyperlinked to the software websites billing form.

Supposed Functionality:

Trial version is supposed to scan for Spyware for free

Removal Instructions:

Desktop:

Please remove the following files from your desktop.
To check where they are pointing to, right-click them and choose "Properties" from the context menu appearing.

• Shortcuts that point to "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\was5.exe".

Autorun:

Please use Spybot-S&D, RunAlyzer or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.

• Entries named "WinAntiSpyware 2005" and pointing to "?<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\was5.exe*".

Installed Software List:

You can try to uninstall products with the names listed below; for items identified by other properties or to avoid malware getting active again on uninstallation, use Spybot-S&D or RunAlyzer to locate and get rid of these entries.

• Products that have a key or property named "WAS5_is1".

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\AMonitor.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\AsAgents.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\AScanner.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\AsCommon.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\shellext.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\sr.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\Updater.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005\was5.exe".
• The file at "<$LOCALSETTINGS>\Temp\WinAntiSpyware2005Setup.exe".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Winsoftware.WinAntiSpyware2005 uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Folders:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these folders.

• The directory at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\WinAntiSpyware 2005".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\WinAntiSpyware 2005".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Winsoftware.WinAntiSpyware2005 uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify folders!

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

• Delete the registry key "WinAntiSpyware 2005" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinSoftware\".
• Delete the registry key "ExplorerWinAS" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\".
• Delete the registry key "{8C65AEF6-E413-4314-815B-82717A3F1603}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
• Delete the registry key "{C7BECE44-7803-49CE-8CAE-49CA56EC8DCF}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
• Delete the registry key "CheckProduct2.DLL" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
• Delete the registry key "MonitorAgents.EXE" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "CheckProduct2.CheckProduct", plus associated values.
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "CheckProduct2.CheckProduct.1", plus associated values.
• Delete the registry key "{8576DE55-EDED-4675-AF10-BA15EDDB4D7A}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
• Delete the registry key "{D4C0649B-B980-44A5-B259-9B09EBEA6331}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
• Delete the registry key "{E69F0D6A-1C69-4A04-8709-5EAC2019D9BE}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
• Delete the registry key "ExplorerWinAS" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\".
• Delete the registry key "ExplorerWinAS" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\".
• Delete the registry key "{2DE308A0-A884-4CA6-B739-CEDB12FEF096}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "MonitorAgents.WAShellExecuteCheck", plus associated values.
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "MonitorAgents.WAShellExecuteCheck.1", plus associated values.
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "shellext.ShellHook", plus associated values.
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "shellext.ShellHook.1", plus associated values.
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "shellext.WASContextMenu", plus associated values.
• A key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ named "shellext.WASContextMenu.1", plus associated values.
• Delete the registry key "{2B798A44-7DFC-4C46-BD8F-41259D169A0D}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\".
• Delete the registry key "{30ED49A5-CA6C-4918-B5F3-5E6818C91D8B}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\".
• Delete the registry key "{FC0B8EB8-AE24-4FD6-B479-E2B464F32DA6}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\".
• Delete the registry key "WinAntiSpyware 2005" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WinSoftware\".
• Delete the registry value "{D4C0649B-B980-44A5-B259-9B09EBEA6331}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks\".

If Winsoftware.WinAntiSpyware2005 uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,

1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.