Sep 25, 2009

Remove SecurityTool - SecurityTool Removal Information

The modern Internet is packed with tons of information. Without doubts, it is the easiest way of getting help from. Unfortunately, this help is not always right help. Moreover, it might sometimes be the source of problems. That is why, every time you mess around in the Internet you need to have some protection, to keep you computer out of malicious objects. The most popular protection nowadays is antivirus application. But there is a great amount of rogue or fake antispyware, which have been disguised as a real one. SecurityTool is one of those fake antispyware applications that try to trick you into giving your money away. This software was created be hackers, and will never help you to protect your PC. Been installed on the computer, SecurityTool immediately scans the whole system. This malicious program always have the same scan results: PC is infected. That is the strategy for all rogue applications this type. Everything is made only for one intention: to make you be scared and to induce ordinary users to believe that SecurityTool is the help you need to fight against those threats. Unfortunately, everything from above is nothing more but a well-practiced performance, where you are the part of audience who has to pay for. Believe or not, it is really difficult to find out that you have been tricked be the simple software. But when you have already realized this, it might be too late. So, don’t ever trust SecurityTool and all of such type of rogue antivirus, because it is the game, where you don’t have a lot of options to win. The only way to do so, is to uninstall SecurityTool as soon as possible, and never use it again.

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown

Threat Level: High
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How to remove SecurityTool manually:
It's possible to remove SecurityTool 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\SecurityTool.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SecurityTool
c:\Program Files\SecurityTool Software
c:\Program Files\SecurityTool Software\SecurityTool
c:\Program Files\SecurityTool Software\SecurityTool\data.bin
c:\Program Files\SecurityTool Software\SecurityTool\license.txt
c:\Program Files\SecurityTool Software\SecurityTool\uninstall.exe
c:\Program Files\SecurityTool Software\SecurityTool\SecurityTool.exe

Remove registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SecurityTool
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SecurityTool
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SecurityTool
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SecurityTool"


Please be careful because manual removal of SecurityTool 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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