How to remove Soft Stronghold?
What is Soft Stronghold?
SoftStronghold is a new rogue in the highly proficient WiniGuard family of rogues. This parasite uses downloader trojans and drive-by downloads to infect the system, and relies on misleading advertising to sell it’s “full version”, which is just as fake as the trial.
Just like it’s predecessors, Soft Cop, Trust Fighter, and countless others, SoftStronghold displays popups and fake system notifications, supposedly to inform him of an infections or multiple infections present on the system. This information is invariably false, ad well as meant to serve only one purpose: to misguide the user in order to swindle his money. The scheme, however, doesn’t stop here: SoftStronghold perfoms fake system scans, which mark harmless files as threats, and urges the user to activate SoftStronghold, supposedly in order to dispose of the infections.
This program is a threat: do NOT download or buy it and remove SoftStronghold as soon as possible.
Soft Stronghold is Extremely dangerous
Soft Stronghold is a corrupt Anti-Spyware program Soft Stronghold may spread via Trojans Soft Stronghold may display fake security messages Soft Stronghold may install additional spyware to your computer Soft Stronghold may repair its files, spread or update by itself Soft Stronghold violates your privacy and compromises your security
for Soft Stronghold detection
Note: Spyware Doctor trial provides detection of parasite like Soft Stronghold and assists in its removal for free. You can remove detected files, processes and registry entries yourself or purchase a full version.
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Manual Soft Stronghold removal
Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Soft Stronghold, 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 Soft Stronghold processes:
Disable these Soft Stronghold DLL files::
Remove these Soft Stronghold Registry Entries:
Remove these Soft Stronghold files:
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other Soft Stronghold infected files and get help in Soft Stronghold removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing Soft Stronghold and similar threats.
Soft Stronghold 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 Soft Stronghold can help you to remove it after you download the trial version. As soon as the victim downloads Soft Stronghold trial version, it pretends to scan your computer and shows a grossly exaggerated amount of non-existent errors. Then, Soft Stronghold offers to buy the full version to fix these false errors. If the user agrees, Soft Stronghold 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 Soft Stronghold, 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 Soft Stronghold, which is another way for Rogue Anti-Spyware to spread itself.
Most of rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Soft Stronghold, is nearly impossible to remove manually.
