Manual Removal Guide for Fraud.QIPGuard

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Fraud.QIPGuard" 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:

• malware
• rogue

Description:

Fraud.QIPGuard claims to be an antivirus tool. When it is installed to the computer it finds a lot of harmless entries in order to frighten the user and make him buy a license to get the issue fixed.

Removal Instructions:

Autorun:

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

• Entries named "QIP Internet Guardian" and pointing to "<$APPDATA>\QipGuard\QipGuard.exe".

Files:

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

• The file at "<$APPDATA>\QipGuard\QipGuard.exe".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Fraud.QIPGuard 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!

Folders:

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

• The directory at "<$APPDATA>\QipGuard".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Fraud.QIPGuard 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 value "QIP Internet Guardian" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\".

If Fraud.QIPGuard 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.