Oct 22, 2009

Remove Soft Cop - SoftCop Removal Information

Nowadays the importance of having any sorts of protection on our computer is extremely high. There are tons of different antivirus applications, but unfortunately there are such security software that must not be trust. Soft Cop is one of these badwares that do any good, not for you and your computer. Soft Cop is a part of WiniSoft family. Soft Cop is produced by the same hackers created Soft Soldier. This rogue antispyware application is directed on tricking you and male you believe that your system is in high dangerous. The strategy Soft Cop uses is very simple and is the same for any programs of this type. Once inside your computer, Soft Cop creates different file all over your machine to present them as threats after every system scan. That was made to scare you and offer you to buy a registered license. Unfortunately this “license” is not going to help you. It will just pretend the work, but actually it does nothing, but sending false information about the security of your computer. Like many other rogue antivirus applications, Soft Cop gets inside your computer by using tojan downloader that is used on some web-sites to be able to watch movies and videos online. Soft Cop will also send you fake security alerts and different reports about the importance of license purchase. All these buzz pop-ups as well as scan reports must be ignored. Moreover, we highly recommend you to get rid of this badware if you want to keep your PC in safe, because the main danger on your computer is Soft Cop by itself.

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown

Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Soft Cop manually:
It's possible to remove Soft Cop manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.

The files to be deleted:

c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\SoftCop.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftCop
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftCop\1 SoftCop.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftCop\2 Homepage.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftCop\3 Uninstall.lnk
c:\Program Files\SoftCop Software
c:\Program Files\SoftCop Software\SoftCop
c:\Program Files\SoftCop Software\SoftCop\SoftCop.exe
c:\Program Files\SoftCop Software\SoftCop\uninstall.exe
c:\WINDOWS\10345tr5j9z.dll
c:\WINDOWS\10b9backdoor1z95.ocx
c:\WINDOWS\10ez9parse1845.cpl
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ree5.tmp.exe
c:\WINDOWS\system32\1020zspambo55e39.exe
c:\WINDOWS\system32\10834w95z101.exe
c:\WINDOWS\system32\10z14tro9195.cpl


Remove registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SoftCop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SoftCop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SoftCop
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "ree5.tmp.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SoftCop"


Please be careful because manual removal of Soft Cop may seriously damage operational system and sensitive data. Also there is a big possibility of incomplete removal, because some files could be hidden and program could re-install itself after you delete files and registry entries. So we strongly recommend you to use automatical removal tool.

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