Friday, June 18, 2010

How to remove XP Police Antivirus

XP Police Antivirus is a rogue security software, it is a false anti-spyware application that is generally installed in the user’s computer by dangerous trojans (such as the Zlob Trojan Virus and false video codecs)(What is Zlob?), but it can also be installed manually by the victim.



Once your computer is infected with this parasite, it will immediately displays security warnings, alerts and system scans stating that your computer is heavily infected. These warnings are all false and are only displayed to make you think your computer is truly infected and that it is necessary to buy the full version of the software to remove the so-called infections.



Make sure to not fall in this scam, if your computer is infected with XP Police Antivirus, it is recommended to remove it immediately and to scan your system with a real security software.



Symptoms of infection



* The process xppolice.exe is running in your system
* Slow computer performance
* Repeated security warnings, alerts and system scans
* Web sites that suddenly are shown on your desktop



Malicious web sites and urls:
xp-police-antivirus.com

When the program is executed, it creates the following files:
C:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\
C:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\AVCoreFn.dll
C:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\Core.dll
C:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\bdconf.cfg
C:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\xppolice.exe
C:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\sounds\
C:\Program Files\XPPoliceAntivirus\plugins\

How to remove XP Police Antivirus (manual removal) ?



* Kill the running process xppolice.exe
* Unregister all the XP Police Antivirus DLLs
* Delete all the XP Police Antivirus files
* Delete all the XP Police Antivirus registry entries



How to remove XP Police Antivirus (automatic removal) ?

* Download and Install NoVirusThanks Malware Remover
* Update the database
* Click the button Scan
* Delete infected files

Learn how to remove other Trojan Viruses such as Zlob

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