Manual Removal Guide for Fraud.AntiSpywarePro

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The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Fraud.AntiSpywarePro" 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.AntiSpywarePro is a rogue antispyware application. Once installed it connects without user consent to a remote site and creates an autorun entry in order to be started on every windows start up. It detects some false threats and urges the user to purchase a license if he wants to fix them.​

Removal Instructions:

Autorun:

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

• Entries named "AntiSpyware Pro" and pointing to "?<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\AntiSpyware Pro.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 "AntiSpyware Pro".

Files:

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

• The file at "<$APPDATA>\AntiSpyware Pro\conf.xml".
• The file at "<$APPDATA>\AntiSpyware Pro\Sites.black".
• The file at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\AntiSpyware Pro\Uninstall AntiSpyware Pro.lnk".
• The file at "<$COMMONSTARTUP>\.security".
• The file at "<$FIXEDDRIVES>\.security".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\AntiSpyware Pro.db".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\AntiSpyware Pro.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\AntiSpywarePro.pkg".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\ASProSB.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\ASpyProPUBlk.dll".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\BlankActiveX.ocx".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro\prg.info".
• The file at "<$STARTUP>\.security".
• The file at "<$SYSDIR>\drivers\etc\.security".
• The file at "<$WINDIR>\.security".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Fraud.AntiSpywarePro 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 "<$APPDATA>\AntiSpyware Pro\logs".
• The directory at "<$APPDATA>\AntiSpyware Pro\startup".
• The directory at "<$APPDATA>\AntiSpyware Pro".
• The directory at "<$COMMONPROGRAMS>\AntiSpyware Pro".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\AntiSpyware Pro".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Fraud.AntiSpywarePro 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 "{66B643BE-5E94-4569-B93E-CE2636848AC8}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\".
• Delete the registry key "{66B643BE-5E94-4569-B93E-CE2636848AC8}" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\".
• Delete the registry key "AntiSpyware Pro" at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\".
• Delete the registry key "AntiSpyware Pro" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\".

If Fraud.AntiSpywarePro 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.