How to Get Rid of Think Point Antivirus? Eliminate and Remove Think Point Antivirus Fake Antivirus Completely How to remove Think Point Antivirus? Think Point Antivirus is not a legitimate and Real Antispyware Program but itself a spyware, more precisely a new kind of rogue antispyware program from the same family of System Armor. The only difference being the core files are modified a little bit and the name is changed to hide it's detection by legitimate Antivirus programs installed on your PC.

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The fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert is a Trojan virus that impersonates the legitimate Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus program and states that your computer is infected with Unknown Win32/Trojan. This malicious software promotes five different fake anti-virus programs: Red Cross Antivirus, Peak Protection 2010, Pest Detector 4.1, Major Defense Kit and AntiSpySafeguard. The fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert will state that it was unable to remove Unknown Win32/Trojan threat and will prompt you to install one of those five rogue programs to remove the infection which actually doesn't even exist on your computer. Actually, it will display a list with 35 different antivirus programs, 30 of which are legitimate antivirus programs, but it let you install only the rogue ones.

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AVG is an umbrella term for a range of anti-virus and Internet security software for the Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and FreeBSD computing platforms, developed by AVG Technologies, a privately held Czech company formerly known as GrisoftAVG. Now a days there are a variety of fake anti virus & malwares which are disturbing our operating system like Microsoft Security Essentials, Thinkpoint anti virus and many fake firewall programs which results in slowing down our System Processing speed and in result we have to reinstall our operating system but still we get infected again. For Fighting with these fake programs AVG now has introduced a Free Malware and Virus Removal Tool, many other malware, spyware and fake antivirus removal are also available in the market but they are unable to safely uninstall dangerous viruses such as Conficker, VBS/Iloveyou, Win32/Expiro and instead of removing these malware, spyware and Fake Antivurs they causes for more damage.

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Like ThinkPoint Anti Virus, Microsoft Security Essentials Suite, Antivirus Action is Also a Fake Security program, Sometime such fake programs harm Operating system alot. You should have to remove Fake Antivirus action As soon as you get effected from it According to my observation Antivirus action does not let you run most of the programs on your computer. If an application in your computer is infected by the Fake Anti virus Action this will result either the program will automatically exit or you will see the following messages

1. Application cannot be executed. The file Wordpad.exe / Hearts.exe is infected.
2. Security Warning
3. Do you want to activate your antivirus software now.

Anti virus action is coded in such a way that it automatically configures proxy on your network and due to proxy configuration this will show you some errors messages randomly which it get from its source server, while you are browsing / surfing websites. The messages of this warning can be like:

1. Internet Explorer warning – visiting this site may harm your computer! Most likely causes
2. There might be an active spyware running on your computer
3. The website contains exploits that can launch a malicious code on your computer
4. Suspicious network activity detected

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Fake Antivirus Remover is a little tool used to remove fake antivirus and programs which are viruses or trojans. Fake Antivirus Remover is used to remove Cyber Security, Braviax, Alpha Antivirus, Green AV, Windows Protection Suite, Total Security 2009, Windows System Suite, Personal Antivirus, Anti-Virus-1, Spyware Guard 2008, System Guard 2009, Antivirus 2009, System Security, Antivirus 2010 and more. It can also remove Antivirus Pro 2009, Antivirus 360, MS Antispyware 2009, Malware Doctor, AntivirusBEST, System Security 2009, Antivirus System Pro, WinPC Defender, Fake Microsoft Essential Remover (all of them are fake antivirus which are viruses or trojans) from your computer. Download Fake AntiVirus Remover.

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The fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert is a Trojan virus that impersonate the genuine Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus program and keep you showing that your computer is infected with unidentified Win32/Trojan  (for information and guidelines, genuine Microsoft Security Essentials can be start here). This malicious software advertise five different bogus anti-virus programs:

1. Red Cross Antivirus
2. Anti Spy Safe guard
3. Pest Detector 4.1
4. Peak Protection 2010
5. Major Defense Kit

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The Major purpose of this fake Trojan is to purchase illegitimate software.  This Fake Trojan will present a listing with 35 different antivirus programs 30 of which are genuine antivirus programs, but it permit you install only the fake ones. The false Microsoft Security Essentials Alert will show that it was not possible to remove Unknown Win32/Trojan threat and here after it will keep promoting those fake antivirus which is identified in the post, install any one of the fake program (Red Cross Antivirus, Anti Spy Safe guard, Pest Detector , Peak Protection 2010, Major Defense Kit ) to get cleaned.
If you install any one of these illegitimate program, it will prompt you to restart your computer. After the start process completion, once again your system will be scanned for the malware after the scan fake scan process will complete it will show that all found infections only can be cleaned / removed with a full version/ licensed copy of that software.

Whatever the alert is presenting to you is bogus. You can safely ignore them. And, of course, don't purchase any of those fake programs. it is clear on how to avoid being infected with Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert. If it happens to overtake your computer, use only valid anti-malware application for automatic removal.  The bogus Microsoft Security Essentials Alert and related rascal programs should be removed from the computer as soon as possible.

There are two other every frustrating things about this malware:

1. The Task Manager will be blocked so that you will be not able to end process of this fake software and after that it will show these kinds of alerts
2. It displays bogus security alerts to scare you into thinking that your computer is infected with spyware, adware, Trojans and other malware.

“The application taskmgr.exe was launched successfully but it was forced to shut down due to security reasons.

“This happened because the application was infected by a malicious program which might pose a threat for the OS.

“It is highly recommended to install the necessary heuristic module and perform a full scan of your system to exterminate malicious programs from it.”

Some Fake Alerts Can Be Found Down Here

Microsoft Security Essentials Alert

Potential threat details
Microsoft Security Essentials detected potential threats that might compromise your privacy or damage your computer. Your access to these items may be suspended until your action. Click ‘Show Details’ to learn more

Warning! Database updated failed!

Database update failed!
Outdated viruses database are not effective can't guarantee adequate protection and security for your PC! Click here to get the full version of the product and update the database!

nasty Files Added by the malware:

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\[random].bat

%UserProfile%\Application Data\PAV\

%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe

%UserProfile%\Application Data\defender.exe

%UserProfile%\Application Data\tmp.exe

Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Registry Entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “tmp”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce “SelfdelNT”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PAV

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = “0″

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnOnPostRedirect” = “0″

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” = “%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe”

Firstly we need to remove these programs which are operating this fake Microsoft Essentials; it can only be done if the task manager and registry is restored

• Learn to see how to restore the Task Manager Manually
• Learn to see how to fix the registroy editor manually
• Free task manager restoring programs
• Free Utility to restore registry editor

Alternatively we can use Hijack by Trend Micro to kill the process (Click here to Download)

• hotfix.exe
• antispy.exe
• tmp.exe

After killing the processes we have to delete these registry entries

Delete registry values:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PAV
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnonBadCertRecving" = "0"
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnOnPostRedirect" = "0"
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "tmp"
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce "SelfdelNT"
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%UserProfile%\Application Data\antispy.exe"

Learn how to Remove registry Enteries Safely

After the successfully and safely deleting the registry entries what next step we have to adopt is to delete the following files

• %UserProfile%\\Application Data\\antispy.exe
• %UserProfile%\\Application Data\\hotfix.exe
• %UserProfile%\\Application Data\\tmp.exe
• %UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Temp\\kjkkklklj.bat

Reboot your computer and you are done.

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