Remove Active Security. Description and removal instructions

Title: Active Security	Also known as: ActiveSecurity
Type: Spyware	Severity scale: (72 / 100)

Active Security is a misleading application from the same family as Protection System and CoreGuard Antivirus 2009. The program is promoted through the use of Trojans and fake online scanners. When running, Active Security will perform fake system scans and give false reports of threats on your computer. Then it will prompt you to pay for a full version of the program to remove the threats. Do not purchase this program. This is a scam. We strongly recommend you to get rid of Active Security as soon as possible. Otherwise, it may seriously compromise your computer.

To make things worse, Active Security will block anti-virus software and security related websites, mainly to protect itself from being deleted. Likely, it will disable Task Manager Registry Editor and other tools too. System restore can be also disabled. Furthermore, this parasite will flood your computer with fake security alerts and nag screens. Fake security alerts read:

"Active Security detected the virus of the harmful program on your computer!
Internet Explorer is infected with worm Rootkit.Win32.Agent.pp.
This worm can harm your computer."

"Security Center Alert
Backdoor.Win32.Agent.ich
This Trojan provides a remote malicious with access to the victim machine. It is a Windows PE EXE file. It is 48640 bytes in size. It is packed using UPX. The unpacked file is approximately 360KBV in size."

As you can see, ActiveSecurity tries to frighten you into buying the program. If your computer is infected with this malware, please use the removal guide below to remove Active Security from the system manually for free.

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Related files: tlntsvr.exe, slbrccsp.dll, wavemsp.dll, wscsvc.dll, tmplprov.mfl, usb8023.sys, asecurity.exe, core.cga, CoreExt.dll, help.ico, Uninstall.exe, Active Security ReadMe.txt, Active Security Support.lnk, Active Security.lnk, Support.lnk, 4otjesjty.mof, c.dat, creg.dat

Active Security properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Stays resident in background

Active Security snapshot:

Automatic Active Security removal:

remover for Active Security

Active Security manual removal:

Kill processes:
asecurity.exe uninstall.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{5E2121EE-0300-11D4-8D3B-444553540000}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Active Security
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Active Security
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Active Security"

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Unregister DLLs:
coreext.dll

HELP:
how to unregister malicious DLLs

Delete files:
asecurity.exe core.cga coreext.dll help.ico uninstall.exe Active Security ReadMe.txt Active Security Support.lnk Active Security.lnk Support.lnk 4otjesjty.mof c.dat creg.dat

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
c:\Program Files\Active Security
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Active Security
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Active Security\Active Security

Other programs to remove Active Security:

• Malwarebytes Anti Malware - Review - Download
• Malwarebytes Anti Malware - Review - Download
• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 15/10/09
Information updated: 15/10/09

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