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How to remove Secure Veteran?

September 29th, 2009

What is Secure Veteran?

Secure Veteran is a new rogue anti-spyware program from the same family of fake security programs as Security Soldier, SoftSafeness, BlockDefense and numerous others. This parasite relies on malicious means to spread: it uses trojans and browser hijackers to spread and it employs misleading advertising to trick users into purchasing it’s “licensed version”.

Once inside and active, Secure Veteran will flood the user with popups and fake system notifications, supposedly to inform him of an infection or multiple infections present on the system. While this information may coincidentally be correct, Secure Veteran has neither the ability to detect nor remove threats and should therefore be ignored. Secure Veteran uses browser hijackers to redirect users to websites hosting fake online system scans, which produce bogus results and urge him to download the program in order to dispose of fictitious threats. Secure Veteran also performs fake scans and marks harmless files as threats, thus hoping to sell the non-functional “licensed version”.

Secure Veteran will give you only popups and a slow system. Avoid it as best you can and remove Secure Veteran immediatelly upon detection.


Secure Veteran is Extremely dangerous

arrow Secure Veteran is a corrupt Anti-Spyware program
arrow Secure Veteran may spread via Trojans
arrow Secure Veteran may display fake security messages
arrow Secure Veteran may install additional spyware to your computer
arrow Secure Veteran may repair its files, spread or update by itself
arrow Secure Veteran violates your privacy and compromises your security
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Note: Spyware Doctor trial provides detection of parasite like Secure Veteran and assists in its removal for free. You can remove detected files, processes and registry entries yourself or purchase a full version.



Secure Veteran screenshots


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Manual Secure Veteran removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Secure Veteran, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using Spyware Doctor or other malware and spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.
Stop these Secure Veteran processes:
Disable these Secure Veteran DLL files::
Remove these Secure Veteran Registry Entries:
Remove these Secure Veteran files:
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other Secure Veteran infected files and get help in Secure Veteran removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing Secure Veteran and similar threats.

Secure Veteran 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 Secure Veteran can help you to remove it after you download the trial version. As soon as the victim downloads Secure Veteran trial version, it pretends to scan your computer and shows a grossly exaggerated amount of non-existent errors. Then, Secure Veteran offers to buy the full version to fix these false errors. If the user agrees, Secure Veteran 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 Secure Veteran, 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 Secure Veteran, which is another way for Rogue Anti-Spyware to spread itself.

Most of rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Secure Veteran, is nearly impossible to remove manually.


How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Rogue Anti-Spyware such as Secure Veteran?

Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Rogue Anti-Spyware parasite keeps track of your internet browsing habits, sending your browsing history data to remote servers, owned by third party companies that use this information to advertise their products via numerous pop-ups, toolbars, hijacked homepages and spam letters. All these undesirable advertising methods are used on the victims of Rogue Anti-Spyware.
Changed or new icons: Sometimes, Rogue Anti-Spyware installs unwanted software to a victim’s PC without user’s knowledge and consent. This may lead to slower PC performance and stability, as well as more unwanted programs you can't remove.

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