Home Safety Essentials is a rogue anti-spyware program that imitates a system scan and claims that your computer is infected with malicious software. The bogus program creates harmless files on your computer and then detect those files as viruses. Finally, it asks to pay for a full version of the program to remove the infections and to make your computer more secure. Moreover, Home Safety Essentials displays fake security warnings and and pop-ups claiming that your sensitive information can be stolen or that your PC is under attack from a remote computer. It goes without saying that you should removeHome Safety Essentials from your computer as soon as possible. Some of the fake security alerts read:
Home Safety Essentials is promoted mostly through the use of Trojans, fake online scanners and other misleading websites. While running, this scareware will block legit antivirus and anti-spyware programs, disable task manager, registry editor and other useful system tools to protect itself from being removed. It will hijack Internet Explorer and block security related websites or redirect to various misleading websites that promote rogue security software. As you can see, Home Safety Essentials is nothing more but a scam. If you find that your computer is infected with this bogus program please use the removal instructions below to remove Home Safety Essentials from your computer either manually or with an automatic removal tool. If you have already purchased this fake program, then contact your credit card company immediately and dispute the charges.
Home Safety Essentials manual removal:
Delete registry values:HKCU\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\91\Shell\{5C4F28B5-F869-4E84-8E60-F11DB97C5CC7}\Vid {137E7700-3573-11CF-AE69-08002B2E1262}
HKCU\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\URL http://findgala.com/?&uid=231&q={searchTerms}
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download\RunInvalidSignatures 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PRS http://127.0.0.1:27777/?inj=%ORIGINAL%
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\URL http://findgala.com/?&uid=231&q={searchTerms}
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform\89770803
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform\lib/5.00231
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\UID 231
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\0 msseces.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\1 MSASCui.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\10 avgscanx.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\11 avgcfgex.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\12 avgemc.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\13 avgchsvx.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\14 avgcmgr.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\15 avgwdsvc.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\2 ekrn.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\3 egui.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\4 avgnt.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\5 avcenter.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\6 avscan.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\7 avgfrw.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\8 avgui.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun\9 avgtray.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun 1
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Home Safety Essentials
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{3F2BBC05-40DF-11D2-9455-00104BC936FF}
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\HS2d7_231.DocHostUIHandler
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download\CheckExeSignatures "no"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin "2"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ConsentPromptBehaviorUser "2"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\EnableLUA "1"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AAWTray.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AVCare.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AVENGINE.EXE
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AVWEBGRD.EXE
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\About.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Ad-Aware.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AlphaAV
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AlphaAV.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\AluSchedulerSvc.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\~1.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\~2.exe
Delete files:%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\14.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\3178.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\46.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\6113.mof
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\HS2d7_231.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\HSE.ico
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\HSESys
%AllUsersProfile%\[random characters]\Quarantine Items
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE
%AllUsersProfile%\HSYITSQGE\HSLGILTOGE.cfg
%AppData%\Home Safety Essentials\
%AppData%\Home Safety Essentials\Instructions.ini
%AppData%\Home Safety Essentials\ScanDisk_.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\CLSV.tmp
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\DBOLE.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\PE.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\SICKBOY.drv
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\SICKBOY.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\delfile.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\eb.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\eb.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\energy.dll
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\gid.tmp
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\pal.sys
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\ppal.drv
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\runddlkey.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\snl2w.drv
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Home Safety Essentials.lnk
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