Soft Stronghold is nothing more, but another rogue anti-spyware application, commonly known as fake security software. Soft Stronghold is a part of the one family of WiniBlue rogues. Its recent created predecessors are Soft Cop, Soft Soldier, Soft Veteran, Trust Warrior and Trust Soldier. All of these programs from the above are unreal security software and must not to be trusted. The tricking strategies they use are also identical for all. After being installed on your PC, Soft Stronghold, like its forerunner, will directly scan the whole Operation System and will send you alerts about tons of malicious files inside. Please note that Soft Stronghold is a simple rogue ant-virus program that is why everything it shows is nothing more but a fake. Such fake scan results are going to be sent to every user that put to use Soft Stronghold. So do not panic, and purchase the registered license of Soft Stronghold to fight the threats this scareware makes you believe in, because very probably you do not have any of them. Another interesting fact about rogue ant-spyware applications is that every time you log in your system, they begin their scare work. Soft Stronghold will modify Windows Security Center in such a way that it will send tons of annoying pop-ups, scare alerts that someone is trying to attack your computer, and security notifications about the importance of purchasing Soft Stronghold. All of this is just another simple attempt to scare you and make you believe that Soft Stronghold is the security application you can trust. Please remember that Soft Stronghold is nothing more but simple rogue ant-virus software and it should be removed from your computer directly at a time it has been detected.
Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Soft Stronghold manually:
It's possible to remove Soft Stronghold 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\Soft Stronghold.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Soft Stronghold
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Soft Stronghold\1 Soft Stronghold.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Soft Stronghold\2 Homepage.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Soft Stronghold\3 Uninstall.lnk
c:\Program Files\Soft Stronghold Software
c:\Program Files\Soft Stronghold Software\Soft Stronghold
c:\Program Files\Soft Stronghold Software\Soft Stronghold\data.bin
c:\Program Files\Soft Stronghold Software\Soft Stronghold\license.txt
c:\Program Files\Soft Stronghold Software\Soft Stronghold\uninstall.exe
c:\Program Files\Soft Stronghold Software\Soft Stronghold\Soft Stronghold.exe
C:\Windows\System32\blocker.dll
Remove registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Soft Stronghold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Soft Stronghold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Soft Stronghold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Soft Stronghold"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Soft Stronghold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Soft Stronghold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Soft Stronghold"
Please be careful because manual removal of Soft Stronghold 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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