Title: Cloud Protection
Also known as: CloudProtection

Remove Cloud Protection
Removal instructions

 
Severity scale:Cloud Protection severity is 72  (72 / 100)
 

Cloud Protection is a rogue anti-virus program from the same family as Guard Online. It claims that your computer is compromised and offers you to purchase the full version of the program to remove the supposedly found malware. When running, this parasite will restrict access to certain websites mostly to protect itself from being deleted and block legitmate anti-spyware software. To make this scam even more effective,Cloud Protection will flood your computer with very annoying and of course fake security alerts and notifications about serious security problems and system exploits. If you are infected with this malicious software, please use the removal guide below to remove Cloud Protection from your computer as soon as possible. If you have already purchased it, you should contact your credit card company and dispute the charges. Although, Cloud Protection doesn't look like a regular Windows application, it may still trick many users into thinking that their PCs are infected by malware.

Windows Security Alert
To help protect your computer, Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program.
Do you want to keep blocking this program?
Name: Zeus Trojan Publisher: Unauthorized

Security Warning
There are critical system files on your computer that were modified by malicious software.
It may cause permanent data loss.
Click here to remove malicious software.

Once Cloud Protection is installed and running, it will perform a fake system scan and find non-existent viruses, to inform the user that his computer is infected with spyware and other viruses. The rogue also displays fake security alerts. These alerts are very similar to genuine Wiindows alerts, so the user can be easily confused. Cloud Protection then suggest to purchase the software in order to remove those infections. However, as you may already guess, you shouldn't pay for it. CloudProtection cannot remove any infections and viruses. It was designed to steal money from people. That's why we strongly recommend you to use removal instructions stated below and to remove Cloud Protection from the system immediately after detection. You can remove it manually, but this rogue can come bundled with rootkits, so we strongly recommend you to use an automatic removal guide below. 



Cloud Protection snapshot:
Cloud Protection removal

Automatic Cloud Protection removal:

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SpyHunter is recommended remover to uninstall Cloud Protection. You should confirm using free trial that it detects current version of parasite.

Note: Tested and Confirmed means that we have tested spyware remover with multiple versions of Cloud Protection and got the best results. There might be updated or modified version of particular parasite that require manual killing of parasite process or an update. In such case try other removers in the line.

Manual assistance required means that one or all of removers were unable to remove parasite without some manual intervention, please read manul removal instructions below.

If you failed to remove Cloud Protection using SpyHunter please report this to us.
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Tested and Confirmed! Malwarebytes Anti Malware removes Cloud Protection (2011-10-13 16:20:28)
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We are testing Spyware Doctor's efficiency at removing Cloud Protection (2011-10-25 18:15:57)
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We are testing STOPzilla's efficiency at removing Cloud Protection (2011-10-25 18:15:57)
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Cloud Protection manual removal:

Kill processes:
[random].exe
csrss.exe
conhost.exe
Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
?€?gTZqjYCkIrOyAuS8234A=%SystemRoot%\system32\[random]?€?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
?€?conhost=%AppData%\Microsoft\csrss.exe?€?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\0001\Software\Microsoft\windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
?€?ProxyEnable=00000001?€ณ
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
?€?ProxyEnable=00000001?€ณ
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings
?€?ProxyServer=http=127.0.0.1:53717?€ณ
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections
?€?DefaultConnectionSettings=3C0000000B0000000?€ฆ?€?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Connections
?€?SavedLegacySettings=3C0000006B0000000?€ฆ?€?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run
?€?%RANDOM%=%AppData%\csrss.exe?€?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
?€?Load=%SystemRoot%\system32\lvvm.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
?€?Shell=explorer.exe,%AppData%\conhost.exe"
Delete files:
%SystemRoot%\system32\[random].exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\[random].exe
%AppData%\[random]Cloud Protection.ico
%AppData%\conhost.exe
%AppData%\csrss.exe
%AppData%\E84E.1B6
%AppData%\ldr.ini
%AppData%\[random]\
%AppData%\[random]\
%AppData%\[random]\
%AppData%\Microsoft\csrss.exe
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Cloud Protection.lnk
%Temp%\4F.tmp
%Temp%\53.tmp
%Temp%\54.tmp
%Temp%\55.tmp
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Cloud Protection\
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Cloud Protection\Cloud Protection.lnk
Phone Support to remove Cloud Protection
Phone Support to remove Cloud Protection

QR code for Cloud Protection removal instructions:

Cloud Protection qrcode
QR is short for Quick Response. They can be read quickly by the mobile phones. QR codes can store more data than standard barcodes, including url links, geo coordinates, and text.

The reason we add QR code to the website is that parasites like Cloud Protection are really hard to remove on infected computer. you can quicly scan the QR code with your mobile device and have manual removal instructions to uninstall Cloud Protection right in your pocket.

Simply use the QR scanner and read removal instructions from mobile device.

SYMPTOMS OF rogue antispyware INFECTION

Rogue AntiSpyware virus enters your PC without your consent or using some sort of social engineering trick. Fake scanner pages, malicious mail attachments or system vulnerabilities are often used. 

Virus has a single goal: to gain money. Like other rogue anti-spyware applications, it will try to convince you that your system is infected with multiple parasites: trojans, adware, or other rogues. Typically, rogues do not provide enough detail about infections detected or show fake results. Rogue anti-spyware like Cloud Protection will not clean any actual infections for free.

Most of the parasites of this type do not have parasite detection engine thus every warning they show is a random one. If you see persistent popups or alerts, you can safely discard them. 

You should never pay for Rogue Anti-spyware application like Cloud Protection as it funds development of other computer parasites.

Information added: 2011-10-13 16:20:28
Information updated: 2011-10-25 18:15:57

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Brienne
i downloaded stopzilla and i went through the setup and then there is nothing. i dont know how to find the program, its not coming up in any of my searches. the only trace of it is the setup program.
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Haywood
The files are hidden. You would need to change that in the folder options tab.

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