System Care Antivirus is a fake software which just looks like a legitimate antivirus program. This program is created by some ill-minded cyber criminals who want to cheat money from consumers by fooling them. System Care Antivirus is a shallow gimmick to extort money from unsuspecting consumers who are not aware about such scams and easily believe any software as genuine antivirus software.
System Care Antivirus is very cleverly designed and It gets into your computer in a very smart way. When you are surfing the Internet, you might see a banner which is very tempting to click on. Once you click on that banner, you might be offered to downloaded something and that download can be System Care Antivirus. If you download software, music, videos and other files from un-trusted sources, your computer can very easily catch malware since such downloads are often bundled with harmful software. People often don’t understand that nothing is free in the world and there is always a catch.
Online Scammers use their sharp minds to design tempting schemes so that people actually click on their advertisement and then get infected with System Care Antivirus. Once this rogue application is up and running in your computer, It won’t let you do anything. It will block your security applications, Task Manager, Registry Editor as well as all other programs which you might use against System Care Antivirus. Not only this, This malware won’t let you run anything unless you buy full version of System Care Antivirus.
System Care Antivirus will also do a bogus scan of your computer and tell you that lots of threats are detected in your computer and to remove them, you should use full version of System Care Antivirus. If you don’t understand about this trick, you might end up purchasing this bogus software and get nothing in return. Once you buy this program, It will stop showing any alerts and then you’ll get satisfied that your computer is safe.
Please keep in mind that System Care Antivirus is a fake program and it can do a lot of damage to your computer. As soon as you encounter this threat in your computer, remove System Care Antivirus as quickly as possible. If it stays longer, It might download additional malicious things to your computer and make removal extremely harder. System Care Antivirus will also show bogus security alerts like :
Security Monitor: WARNING!
Attention! System detected a potential hazard (TrojanSPM/LX) on your computer that may infect executable files. Your private information and PC safety is at risk.Click Yes to download official intrusion detection system (IDS software).
Spyware.IEMonster activity detected.
This is spyware that attempts to steal passwords from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Outlook and other programs. Click here to remove it immediately with System Care Antivirus.
System Care Antivirus Firewall Alert
System Care Antivirus Firewall has blocked a program from accessing the Internet. Internet Explorer Internet Browser is infected with worm SVCHOST.Stealth.Keyloger. This worm is trying to send your credit card details using Internet Explorer Internet Browser to connect to remote host.
System Care Antivirus Warning
Intercepting programs that may compromise your privacy and harm your system have been detected on your PC. Click here to remove them immediately with System Care Antivirus.
There are lots of other error messages as well. Don’t get afraid when you see security alerts popping up from everywhere in your computer. These alerts are not genuine but manufactured by System Care Antivirus. These alerts are served by Microsoft Windows but this is System Care Antivirus manipulating your computer’s settings and showing bogus alerts to scare you. It is very well known that scare tactics work really well and scammers take full advantage of that. We’ve received emails from some people who actually bought this scam software and they asked us about what to do.
We suggest that even If you’ve paid for this scam software in good faith, there is nothing to worry about. Simply call your credit card company and dispute the charge. The scammers aren’t going to fight the chargeback as they know they’ve scammed you. Read next part of this guide to learn how to remove System Care Antivirus easily without harming any files or other important stuff on your computer.
How To Remove System Care Antivirus
We’ve tested lots of malware programs in our research lab and System Care Antivirus is not different at all. it uses same old tactics to block Task Manager and other programs and we actually know how to easily remove System Care Antivirus. To remove this malware from your computer, you can use these two removal methods.
A. Automatic Removal Method.
B. Manual Removal Method
You can use either of these removal methods depending on your expertise level with computers but we suggest you to use Automatic Removal Method as it is fast, secure, easily and guarantees complete removal of System Care Antivirus. On the other hand, Manual Removal method is risky, tedious and doesn’t guarantee complete removal of malware from your computer. Finding all infected files is by employing manual removal method is impossible for obvious reasons. You can read more about both removal methods below :
A. Automatic Removal Method – Easy and Effective
This removal method is based on using a genuine anti-malware program to get rid of all the threats in your computer. This method is very easy to follow and used by more than 95% computer users to remove the malware safely. This method is like scanning your computer when a virus gets inside your PC.
Most other viruses don’t actually appear on the Screen but keep killing your computer in the background. However, System Care Antivirus actually appears in front of you and blocks everything and It is a little bit harder to remove. To remove System Care Antivirus easily, please follow these removal steps :
1. Don’t worry about System Care Antivirus running in your computer. Simply click on Start–>Run, Type “http://www.rogueremovals.com/download.php” and click OK button. Alternatively, you can also click on this button to start the download :
When the download starts, please save the file as “explorer.exe” on desktop. Please keep in mind that you must save the file as “explorer.exe” because this name is used by a critical windows process and System Care doesn’t interfere with files having this name.
2. After downloading the removal tool and saving it as “explorer.exe” on desktop, please double click over it. Once you double click the downloaded file, System Care Antivirus will get terminated forcefully and now you can remove the malware without any interference.
3. Now as shown on Screen, please download the removal tool and install it in your computer. Then do a Full Scan of your computer and It will automatically find System Care antivirus in your computer. Not only this but It will also find many other malware programs hiding in your computer and slowing it down.
4. When the scan is finished, click on “Fix Threats” button to get rid of all the malware from your computer. Now, everything is restored back to its previous position and you can use the computer normally as before. Just restart your computer and now there are no threats in your computer.
This removal method is very easy to follow and there are no chances that you won’t be able to remove the malware. Even If you’re not highly skilled with computers, you can still follow this removal method and actually remove the malware easily. More Screenshots of System Care Antivirus :
B. Manual Removal Method – Risky and Tedious
Manual Removal method is meant for advanced computer users only and If you haven’t dealt with such threats before, we suggest that you don’t try your hands on this removal method. At best, you won’t be able to remove the malware and at worst, you could worsen the situation than it is now. You can try these removal steps at your own risk :
1. First of all, you need to stop System Care Antivirus from running . To do that, you should download Process Explorer and save it as “explorer.exe”. on your computer. Once you’ve Process Explorer on your computer, run it and terminate System Care Antivirus.
2. Now find and delete these files from your computer :
%CommonAppData%\<random numbers and chars>\
%CommonAppData%\<random numbers and chars>\<random numbers and chars>
%CommonAppData%\<random numbers and chars>\<random numbers and chars>.exe
%CommonAppData%\<random numbers and chars>\<random numbers and chars>.ico
Please make sure that you don’t delete any files based on your assumption. Deleting files from your computer is irreversible and before you delete any files, make sure you know what you’re doing.
3. After deleting malicious files, Run Registry Editor and remove malicious registry entries. To run registry editor, click on “Start—>Run” type, “regedit” and click OK button. Locate the below Key and delete the startup Entry related to System Care Antivirus :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce “<random numbers and chars>”
After correcting registry, please reboot your computer and see If everything is back to normal. If not and you suspect that there are more malware in your computer, you can always try Automatic Removal method instead. There are lots of advantages of Automatic Removal method over manual removal method.