Win 7 Security Plus 2013 - How to remove

Win 7 Security Plus 2013

Win 7 Security Plus 2013 is one of the Fake Rean rogues that is distributed during Christmas time. It is not a separate rogue, but just a name used by makers of this rogue family to avoid suspicions when asking to purchase the fake antivirus. Typically, Win 7 Security Plus 2013 is installed using security vulnerabilities or as a some sort fake utility program or document. No website promotes it openly, and even the ones that do might be infected without site owners knowledge.

Once Win 7 Security Plus 2013 infects PCs, you will start seeing its alert windows and various warnings. First of all, you will notice a fake Windows security center that displays information that your antivirus is disabled and you need to turn the fake one on. Next, a scan will start and will detect around 20 fake infections on your hard drive. Lastly, you will be asked for payment for Win 7 Security Plus 2013 rogue “services”. Do not pay for this rogue!. Remove it instead, and get a real antivirus and anti-malware program.

There are several dangers to leave Win 7 Security Plus 2013 infection unfixed. First, it disables .exe files, which is annoying and makes your PC unusable. Also, this family of rogues comes with rootkit quite often, which endangers system further as many of regular antiviruses fail to remove the parasite fully. Thirdly, many of websites are blocked by Security Plus 2013 so it is hard to find cure and fix your PC. However, you can download programs directly by pressing on the Start button in the lower left, then entering program url in the bar there like this :

https://www.2-viruses.com/downloads/spyhunter-i.exe

Press continue in the malware window that will appear, and then move other windows aside. After downloading programs, you might want to rename them to .com or run exe registry fix, that can be downloaded from here :

www.2-viruses.com/wp-content/uploads/exeregfix.reg

Run and import it to registry and your executables will run till the rogue process is relaunched. Executables can be launched by right-clicking on them and choosing run as administrator too.

Spyhunter program should kill Win 7 Security Plus 2013 process on launch. If it does not, there are alternate removal instructions for versions with heavy rootkits.

  1. Import eregfix like in the guide above.
  2. Download TDSS Killer from http://support.kaspersky.com/downloads/utils/tdsskiller.exe
  3. Run it, if it detects something and asks for reboot, do so, but press F8 during reboot. Choose safe mode.
  4. Run MSCOnfig, disable all startup entries
  5. Reboot and boot normally, run anti-malware scans to detect Win 7 Security Plus leftovers and remove them.

Automatic Malware removal tools

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Manual removal

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