Manual Way to Get Rid of Live Security Professional

Live Security Professional Description

Live Security Professional is a fake security software that pretends to be a legal and professional program to protect your computer. It displays pop-ups stating that threat has been detected. Those alerts can be displayed as follow:

Warning: Your computer is infected
Detected spyware infection! Click this message to install the last update of security software!

Warning! 38 infections found! Last scan detected malicious programs (6), viruses (22), adware (2), spyware (6), tracking cookies (2) It is highly recommended to remove these threats from your computer immediately!

Live Security Professional Firewall has blocked a program from accessing the Internet!

First you have to make sure that whatever it displays you, those warnings are totally untrue. The only purpose of Live Security Professional is to ask you to buy the fake security program of Live Security Professional. Then you should remove Live Security Professional as soon as possible when you realize its existence.

 

 

Live Security Professional Is a Serious Threat to Your Computer

As a fake security program, Live Security Professional boots automatically whenever you boot your computer. It pretends to detect threats and infections in your computer and recommends you to signup Live Security Professional. As a powerful fake security program, it penetrates into your computer by various ways. Usually speaking, Live Security Professional bundled with many other soft wares. When you download those free soft wares from the Internet, Live Security Professional comes into your computer. Besides, malicious websites and spam email attachment will also lead you to the disaster. Expect those fake warnings you got, Live Security Professional also cause other problems to your computer: your browse activities may be hijacked, your system performs slowly and poorly, some of your programs cannot be used anymore. In a word, Live Security Professional is harmful to your computer.

Manual Removal Way to Get Rid of Live Security Professional

Since Live Security Professional can disable your programs, your anti-virus cannot catch it anymore. Besides, Live Security Professional virus mutates frequently. Therefore, the most effective way to get rid of Live Security Professional is to remove it manually. This post will give you some help.

Step 1: Stop the Live Security Professional process from Task Manager.

Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete together, when you get Task Manager window, choose Processes tab, right-click the process of Live Security Professional and end it.

[random.exe]

Step 2: Show hidden files and folders in your computer.

Open Control Panel from Start menu, choose Folder Options, click View tab, check Show hidden files and folders, and uncheck Hide protected operating system files.

Step 3: Search and delete the following files associated to Live Security Professional from your computer.

%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll
%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe
%AppData%\result.db

Step 4: Open Register Editor.

Click Start>Run>type regedit in the search bar, then you get the Register Editor.

Step 5: Delete all the registry entries related to Live Security Professional.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "\.exe" -a "%1" %*
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "WindowsSecurity" = "\.exe" -a "%1" %*.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "\.exe" -a "%1" %*
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\exefile\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "\.exe" -a "%1" %*
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Step 6: Restart your computer and have a check.

Note: the files names may be more than what have listed above, for Live Security Professional may have changed the programs files and replaced with its own. If you need help from experts, you are welcome to contact 24/7 professional online service here.