Remove Spyware Preventer. Description and removal instructions

Title: Spyware Preventer	Also known as: SpywarePreventer
Type: Malware	Severity scale: (78 / 100)

Spyware Preventer can only prevent you from using your computer. It is a rogue anti-spyware and it’s not capable of detecting or deleting infections. SpywarePreventer appears uninvited as a consequence of installing fake video codecs. Once aboard a computer SpywarePreventer reports numerous threats and makes it difficult to use a computer because plenty of fabricated security reports are loaded constantly. Spyware Preventer offers deleting supposedly detected threats for $40-$80 fee.

Avoid Spyware Preventer application at all costs.

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Related files: SpywarePreventer.exe, SPP, SPP.cpl, SPP.exe, SPP1.dat, Spyware Preventer.lnk

Spyware Preventer properties:
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Spyware Preventer removal:

remover for Spyware Preventer

Spyware Preventer manual removal:

Kill processes:
spp.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\"Antivirus" = "C\Program Files\SPP\SPP.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\"Antivirus" = "C\Program Files\SPP\SPP.exe"
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SPP
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antivirus

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
SpywarePreventer.exe c:\\Program Files\\SPP c:\\Program Files\\SPP\\SPP.cpl c:\\Program Files\\SPP\\SPP.exe c:\\Program Files\\SPP\\SPP1.dat c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\SPP.cpl c:\\Documents and Settings\\Bleeping\\Desktop\\Spyware Preventer.lnk

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
c:\Program Files\SPP\

Other programs to remove Spyware Preventer:

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

Information added: 26/08/08
Information updated: 27/08/08

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