Protect Soldier is new unwanted application that pretends to be acting like regular antivirus tool. Though, it is brand new, there are minimum of newest features in its work and GUI. Protect Soldier was created with one purpose: to fool users and influence them to get helpless products, spending their money without any profits. This rogue antispyware application is pushed by Trojans that pretend to be video codec that one has to download to be able to view certain movies online. Once inside, the same infection will download and install Protect Soldier on your PC. Of course, everything would be done without user’s consent and would not be noticed for the first time. First of all, after rebooting your computer, Protect Soldier will run system scan that is going to show a list of infections that can remove, but only if to purchase it’s so called “full” version. Unfortunately, for around 50$ you are going to get a chance to fight threats that do not exist at all. They were made up by this badware to scam you out of money, without giving any useful help instead. Moreover, you are going to face tons of annoying notifications from Protect Soldier that will claim about license necessity or active threat detection. Everything is done to make you believe that this rogue antispyware program does actually work, so you can trust it. Please note, that anything Protect Soldier says is nothing more, but tricking, so must not be trusted. Another nasty feature of is hijacking of your web browser. This means that Protect Soldier is going to control your activities inside world web and will block you an access to security pages that can detect and remove this infection from your PC. All in all Protect Soldier is an absolutely helpless product that only imitates protecting your PC, but indeed, everything this badware cares about is your money and nothing more.
Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Protect Soldier manually:
It's possible to remove Protect Soldier manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.
The files to be deleted:
%Program Files%\ProtectSoldier Software
%Program Files%\ProtectSoldier Software\ProtectSoldier
%Program Files%\ProtectSoldier Software\ProtectSoldier\ProtectSoldier.exe
%Program Files%\ProtectSoldier Software\ProtectSoldier\uninstall.exe
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\DefendAPc.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ProtectSoldier.lnk
%Temp%\[random].exe
Remove registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ProtectSoldier
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ProtectSoldier
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ProtectSoldier
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “ProtectSoldier.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ProtectSoldier
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ProtectSoldier
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “ProtectSoldier.exe”
Please be careful because manual removal of Protect Soldier 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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