Palladium Antivirus - How to remove

Palladium Antivirus or Palladium Pro is a typical malware which aggressively recommends activating its licensed version in order to make the computer protected. However, the thing about this rogue anti-spyware is that people never get the expected protection but have more problems connected with a security of their computers. More correctly named as Palladium Virus, this malware is direct successor of ThinkPoint and ThinkSmart – fake antiviruses know to be advertised by fake Microsoft Security Essentials popups, thus it is most likely that you will see this scam distributed the same.

Typical Palladium Antivirus infection comes in several stages. If an user visits infected website without decent anti-virus and anti-malware protection, or downloads a fake video codec, fake application update or similar, he will be infected with trojan. This trojan will show a window, mimicking Microsoft Security Essentials – a legitimate remover on its own, though the popup will not be real. This popup will claim that your PC is infected, and majority of infections will not be cured by any other soft except “Microsoft’s” Palladium Antivirus. Then the malware will be downloaded and PC will be rebooted to finalize install of that scam.
After reboot, Palladium Antivirus starts making a havoc on the infected machine what means that it will drop some fake harmless files that later will be detected as malware. Additional actions of Palladium Antivirus will be quite typical for this type of virus: rogueware will start triggering fake threat detection reports and scanners that all will find tons of viruses. In fact, you shouldn’t be scared by these “detections” because they are the same harmless files, earlier dropped by Palladium Antivirus. Through this type of activity, Palladium Antivirus expects from you to become scared and will offer purchasing its license. However, trusting Palladium Antivirus and its misleading warnings announcing about dangerous activity of malware is useless and even dangerous. Instead of fixing your computer, it will be infected with more malware and disabled from running any possible anti-spyware.

To avoid making a mistake, do not believe Palladium Antivirus and don’t even think of buying its license to protect your machine. This will never work as virus removal, so remove Palladium Antivirus as soon as you notice it. It may be that you will have to launch safe mode with networking tin order to start running a full system scan with your anti-spyware. Also use the removal tips written below and get rid of Palladium Antivirus.

According to malware researcher S!Ri, you should also create a sold_pal file in %APPDATA% to register Palladium Pro and to simplify removal procedure. However, this will not remove Palladium Pro on its own, but it will stop it from blocking everything one launches.

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