VilmaTech Guides You to Remove Windows Protection Maintenance Easily

Have you installed Windows Protection Maintenance on your computer? Do you think it is a great anti-virus program? What kind of trouble you have came across while using the Windows Protection Maintenance? You must be confused that why this antivirus software keeps displaying warning message on the computer even after the threats deletion of it. VilmaTech research labs has recently analyzed the Windows Protection Maintenance then classified it as fake anti-spyware program. This application is published by cyber crooks to scare Windows users into purchasing its paid version if they want to remove the threats displayed in the scan results. However, all the PC security problems can not be removed completely by the Windows Protection Maintenance because they are totally fake and false positive. The engineer of VilmaTech found out that Windows Protection Maintenance showed non-existence PC threats of the computer to make users believe that their PC system had been infected by numerous viruses. The warning message claims that if people do not remove the malware, viruses and Trojan on the computer they would receive more PC troubles and even get control by hackers remotely.

Most of the users would be shocked when they received such fake notification from any antivirus program. They try to remove the viruses detected out by Windows Protection Maintenance however, they failed to do that with this fake antivirus software. They would be asked to pay for the activated version of Windows Protection Maintenance. Otherwise, the program will never help them clean up the PC threats even though it claims that it is free when downloading from some unknown website. In fact, if you pay the money to the publishers you still will receive fake scan results when trying to run a scan for your computer next time. What’s more, the Windows Protection Maintenance terminates the legitimate antivirus program and other third party software. It is not so easy to remove the Windows Protection Maintenance with antivirus programs.

VilmaTech support team is able to help remove this fake PC security software within just minutes. Here you can follow the Windows Protection Maintenance removal instructions wrote by VilmaTech expert. This tips will show you how to completely remove the it step by step. Furthermore, they also will guide you the correct way to optimize your computer and make it run at optimal performance after the removal of Windows Protection Maintenance.

Remove Windows Protection Maintenance with VilmaTech Instructions

Step One: Reboot Your Computer. Press “F8” on the keyboard before the Windows system has been launched.

If you are using Windows 8, press the Windows key + C, and then click Settings. Click Power, hold down Shift on your keyboard and click Restart, then click on Troubleshoot and select Advanced options. In the Advanced Options screen, select Startup Settings, then click on Restart.

Windows will now boot into safe mode with networking and prompt you to login as a user. Please login as the same user you were previously logged in with in the normal Windows mode. Then proceed with the rest of the steps.

Step Two: Select the “Safe Mode with Networking”

If you are using Windows XP, Vista or 7 in the Advanced Boot Options screen, use the arrow keys to highlight Safe Mode with Networking , and then press ENTER.

If you are using Windows 8, press 5 on your keyboard to Enable Safe Mode with Networking.Windows will start in Safe Mode with Networking.

Step Three: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC（this operation varies by different operating systems）. Open the Windows Task Manager.

If it didn’t work, try another way by pressing the Start button and click on the Run option. This will start the Run tool. Type taskmgr in the blank and press OK. This can help you open the Task Manager.

Step Four: Click on Processes tab. Find the process by the name of random.exe. Then scroll the list to find required processes. Select it with your mouse or arrow keys on the keyboard and click on End Process button.

Step Five: Click “Start” menu — “Control Panel”. Search out the “Folder Options” and show hidden files in this area.

Step Six: Press Windows+R keys and then type regedit in Run box to open Registry Editor. Then delete the registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Random’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

The above mentioned registry ensures that, the virus registers itself with the compromised system and executes itself upon every boot.

Last Step: Delete the files which Windows Protection Maintenance virus added on PC

%AppData%\<random>\
%AppData%\<random>\<random>.exe
%AppData%\<random>\<random>.ini
%AppData%\<random>\<random>.log
%AppData%\<random>\<random>.lst
%Desktop%\Windows Protection Maintenance support.url
%Desktop%\Windows Protection Maintenance.lnk

Manual removal refers to key parts of computer system. Any error step may lead to system crash. VilmaTech Online Tech Expert is recommended to help you remove the Windows Protection Maintenance virus if you don’t have sufficient expertise in dealing with the removal.