How to remove Antivirus Smart Protection ?

What is Antivirus Smart Protection ?

Antivirus Smart Protection is a rogue anti-spyware which together with Malware Protection Center from Virus Doctor family. Though it looks trustworthy and legitimate, in reality it has nothing to do with a real situation on your computer because it designed to report only invented parasites. Additionally, you should categorize this scamware as a rogue anti-spyware because it aggressively offers to purchase its licensed version which is useless just like its trial version. Being a nasty rogue anti-spyware, Antivirus Smart Protection must be uninstalled from the system immediately after it starts appearing on your desktop, so please use a reputable anti-spyware, such as Spyware Doctor, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware or other. These programs could also help you to prevent intrusion of rogues like this one.

From the first sight, Antivirus Smart Protection looks trustworthy and having some useful features. However, the way how this rogue antivirus software starts acting on the system proves that it’s just another rogue anti-spyware seeking to get users’ money. Antivirus Smart Protection comes inside the system from a trojan virus that gets inside the system without any permission asked. In most of the cases, these trojans enter PC together with faked updates or infected downloads that you may download from infected websites. In addition, trojan activates some malicious processes on the system and makes Antivirus Smart Protection capable to start once the PC is rebooted.

So, when inside and active, this rogue keeps displaying misleading alerts and fake system scanners. These bogus pop-ups prevent its victims from using their computer normally and report such viruses:

System Alert
Suspicious software which may be malicious has been detected on your PC. Click here to remove this threat immediately using Antivirus Smart Protection.

System Alert
Antivirus Smart Protection has detected potentially harmful software in your system. It is strongly recommended that you register Antivirus Smart Protection to remove all found threats immediately.

System Alert
Potentially harmful programs have been detected in your system and need to be dealt with immediately. Click here to remove them using Antivirus Smart Protection.

Warning! Virus detected
Threat detected: Trojan-PSW.Win32.Antigen.a
Security Risk: high
Infected File: C:\\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Recent\
Description: This Trojan named ANTIGEN.EXE scans system files for your Internet passwords to steal and misuse them. It also scans your data for more private information: phone…
Recommended: Please click ‘Remove all’ button to erase all infected files and protect your PC.

By encouraging you to click the ‘Remove all’ button, Antivirus Smart Protection wants you to purchase its licensed version. However, make sure you simply ignore its ads because it won’t give anything good for your computer – it will not only disable security programs found on your computer but will also disconnect you from the Internet. As you can see, together with Antivirus Smart Protection you and your PC will be vulnerable in every way. Keep in mind that the best way to save it is to remove Antivirus Smart Protection as soon as you can.  If you can’t launch your anti-spyware program, try renaming its executable file from xxx.exe to xxx.com. In addition, use 2012 year Spyware Doctor version or Spyhunter.

Antivirus Smart Protection is a corrupt Anti-Spyware program
Antivirus Smart Protection may spread via Trojans
Antivirus Smart Protection may display fake security messages
Antivirus Smart Protection may install additional spyware to your computer
Antivirus Smart Protection may repair its files, spread or update by itself
Antivirus Smart Protection violates your privacy and compromises your security

Antivirus Smart Protection is classified as Rogue Anti-Spyware. After infecting a user’s system, it proceeds to scare its victim into buying the “product” by displaying fake security messages, stating that your computer is infected with spyware and only Antivirus Smart Protection can help you to remove it after you download the trial version. As soon as the victim downloads Antivirus Smart Protection trial version, it pretends to scan your computer and shows a grossly exaggerated amount of non-existent errors. Then, Antivirus Smart Protection offers to buy the full version to fix these false errors. If the user agrees, Antivirus Smart Protection does not only fix the errors, but it also takes the user’s money and may even install additional spyware into the victim’s computer.

Some Rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Antivirus Smart Protection , may offer users to buy it after the victim clicks on a banner or a pop-up while surfing the internet. Usually, a Trojan is installed to a victim’s computer after clicking on the advertisement. It then proceeds to download or even install Antivirus Smart Protection , which is another way for Rogue Anti-Spyware to spread itself.

Most of rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Antivirus Smart Protection , is nearly impossible to remove manually.

How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Rogue Anti-Spyware such as Antivirus Smart Protection ?

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