Vista Antispyware 2011 is another malicious program that infects computer systems over the Internet in order to gain some money from computer users. It spreads over system vulnerabilities with a help of Trojan viruses. Once inside, Vista Antispyware modifies Windows Registry in order to play the main role in controlling the whole system.
These changes are responsible for a bunch of security notifications and pop up messages that are not only very annoying but they may also mislead you into thinking that your system is badly infected with various spyware infections. These messages inlude:
Vista Antispyware 2011 Firewall Alert
Vista Antispyware 2011 has blocked a program from accessing the internet
Internet Explorer is infected with Trojan-BNK.Win32.Keylogger.gen
Private data can be stolen by third parties, including credit card details and passwords.
System danger!
Your system security is in danger. Privacy threats detected. Spyware, keyloggers or Trojans may be working the background right now. Perform an in-depth scan and removal now, click here.
System Hijack!
System security threat was detected. Viruses and/or spyware may be damaging your system now. Prevent infection and data loss or stealing by running a free security scan.
However, you shouldn’t trust any of them once they mention purchasing Vista Antispyware or is somehow related to Vista Antispyware 2011. That’s because they are only trying to trick you into purchase a fake program. One more thing to be mentioned, infections can appear with a different name, for example, XP Antispyware 2011 or Win 7 Antispyware 2011 depending on what OS your computer runs.
Besides, once you are infected with Vista Antispyware, every computer reboot will be followed by a scanner of it. This scan must be ignored just like the messages caused by this badware just because the program is fake and it is not able to detect any real infections.
Another irritating consequence of the existence of Vista Antispyware 2011 inside the system is browser hijacking. Once you attempt to visit some Internet page you may end up receiving a message like this:
Internet Explorer alert. Visiting this site may pose a security threat to your system!
Possible reasons include:
– Dangerous code found in this site’s pages which installed unwanted software into your system.
– Suspicious and potentially unsafe network activity detected.
– Spyware infections in your system
– Complaints from other users about this site.
– Port and system scans performed by the site being visited.Things you can do:
– Get a copy of Vista Antispyware 2011 to safeguard your PC while surfing the web (RECOMMENDED)
– Run a spyware, virus and malware scan
– Continue surfing without any security measures (DANGEROUS)
Please, do not trust any information claiming that Vista Antispyware 2011 is a legitimate antispyware program. If you have noticed any of the traces of this dangerous application on your computer, you should consider removing Vista Antispyware as soon as possible.
Vista Antispyware 2011 removal guide
First thing to try is entering this key 1145-17884799-7733 and this order number 21197673. It might disable Vista AntiSpyware 2011, and allow time to scan with spyware removers. If was announced by malware researcher S!Ri that they work for new versions of the rogue as well, which surprised us. However, it might fail. To remove Vista Antispyware 2011 you will need to download and burn into cd several programs on clean PC or Alternate OS scaner. Here instructions:
a) Burn these programs to CD or write them to USB disk (you can use an MP3 player):
- Spyware Doctor ( https://www.2-viruses.com/spdoc.exe )
- Registry fix : https://www.2-viruses.com/wp-content/uploads/exeregfix.reg to restore normal execution of registry
- You might want to download Hitman Pro or Malwarebytes as alternate scanners. Though you are likely to be able to download them later on.
b). Boot normally. Wait for Vista Antispyware 2011 to launch, and run exeregfix.reg . This should allow launching legitimate programs
c) Delete or remove the files that are mentioned in our files box. You can use Spyware Doctor to identify the infected files and additional infections. Do not forget update it before scanning. Remove what it finds.
d) Scan with Spyware Doctor and secondary tools and reboot your PC. This should fully get rid of Vista Antispyware 2011.
In some cases virus mutates and you cannot perform some part of these instructions. In such cases we recommend trying scans from within safe mode, or doing Alternate OS scans by tools from one of antivirus program makers, for example this : http://pctools.com/aoss
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So how am I going to remove it if the virus won’t let me access my USB drive. I am sitting here just hopelessly lost. If I can’t access the USB drive on my infected PC how am I supposed to get rid of the virus? I’ve double checked everything that I was supposed to do according to this guide and I have not made any mistakes. This is just so sad.
Sana: Use keys to disable it and then use process explorer to kill its processes.
Lastly, disable proxy and download removal software.
Well, the key didn’t work, but this other website had a fix.inf file with some other type of coding use. I’m sorry for any confusion in the way I mention things, I’m not very tech-savvy! But I got Spydoctor up and installed but it wouldn’t finish its “checking”. I went to work for 5 hours came back and find it still “checking”. I ditched it and downloaded another anti malware program that I’ve seen being mentioned and quite reputable. Its finally scanning and after a day of hideous nightmares caused by this Vista Anti-spyware I think I might be finally free. Yep, as I typed that last sentence it detected two objects infected and has removed them! GL to everyone with this stupid virus and thanks admin for the shockingly quick response and for the information on this page that came in handy.
Can someone please tell me how to get my money back? Does anyone have a website or phone number? I’m very upset.
Deon: contact your bank! You are unlikely to get money back from them directly, let the bank sort it out.
i managed to fix this with this help thx alot
if anyone is having problems here is how i fixed it:
i started windows in safemode with networking
then got regedit running
deleted the list of reg keys
then used malware-bytes anti malware which got rid of the problem
hope this helps
this is a nightmare, these people should be shot.. i cannot seem to complete these steps.. i located MSASCui.exe inside program files but it says “it needs permission” and won’t let me delete it.. so I can’t seem to delete ANYTHING… getting so frustrated, been on this all day 🙁
I did locate it in “processes” under control alt delete, as a 3-better (i think dmw.exe) and was able to shut it down so it’s at least not RUNNING.
but can’t get any spyware to pick it up and can’t delete anything.
I did a system restore. Is that going to help anything?
I cannot open any webpages as vista anti-spyware 2011 is blocking them all. How can I get rid of this virus??
process name is now kll.exe – spydoctor did not detect or remove – had to do manually
Does processes names do not show. What other name of the processes might be?
Guess what.. got my system infected by 2012 vista spyware please mail me some solutions to remove this shit out of my system..
I used Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and it got rid of the problem.
Sites that use or whack your PC,should be sued or I wish some one whacked
them.
Also used Microsoft security essentials and removed the BS.