Manual Removal Guide for Fraud.WindowsVulnerabilitiesRescuer

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Fraud.WindowsVulnerabilitiesRescuer" 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.WindowsVulnerabilitiesRescuer claims to be an antispyware 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:

Files:

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

Registry:

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

• Delete the registry value "DisableSR " at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\".
• Remove "<$ENV(FraudWindowsVulnerabilitiesRescuer_path)>" from registry value "Shell" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\".

If Fraud.WindowsVulnerabilitiesRescuer 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.

There are more files or system entries belonging to this product that <$SPYBOTSD> can remove, but that cannot be easily described in text. Please use <$SPYBOTSD> to make sure <$PRODUCTNAME> gets completely removed.