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Rogue Antivirus Software

Windows Police Pro is one of a number of software programs that are really rogue antivirus or antispyware.  They claim to be there to protect and keep your computer safe from viruses and spyware, but in reality they manage to install themselves via very shady methods.  (Odds are you won't know how it came to be installed on your computer for instance.)  And they will claim to find problems and only offer to solve them for a subscription fee.  Now, it is true that trusted antivirus vendors typically charge a subscription fee for updates to their antivirus databases, but this is a subtly different practice than charging to remove a threat that the software claims it has found.

Windows Police Pro is simply the latest in a long line of such rogue security software programs and as many it can be a pain in the neck if you have it installed on your system.  It is likely that it will be constantly popping up messages warning you that you need to subscribe to protect your system.  It may be exhibiting other behaviors as well, but all of them likely are aimed at scaring you into paying their fee.


What's worse is that many of these rogue security programs have planned out that people will be searching for ways to remove them and some of the free removal tools that you just stumble across while searching for how to remove windows police pro may actually be gateways to make sure it's installed onto your system.  So, I imagine if you're searching from a clean computer and find one of these sites you can quickly pick up a fresh install to be pulling your hair out over.

Rogue Security Software Info


How to Remove Windows Police Pro

The removal of rogue security software is not the same as any antivirus removal. It is a bit more specialized and requires a careful look at what software is running on the system. Much as the instructions for the Green AV Remove, you need to look at the running tasks and stop the task that is related to this antivirus software.

In this case, you are looking to disable the running processes that might be named:

WindowsPolice.exe
WindowsPolicepro.exe
WPolice.exe

Also, you will want to rename or remove the files that might be found in the installed folder for windows police pro. The first place to look would be:

%User Profile%\Local Settings\Temp
%Program Files%\Windows Police PRO
%Program Files%\LabelCommand

Where %Program Files% is usually c:\Program Files\ and %User Profile% is usually C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\

Once you have disabled the rogue antivirus you should get some reputable software installed to help clean up and find any other "gifts" that it may have left you. Some suggestions for this are malware bytes anti-malware, AVG's free antivirus, Spybot Search and Destroy, Lavasoft Adaware or a free scan or download from Kaspersky or Bitdefender. Malwarebytes Antimalware and AVG are usually my first choices, sometimes followed by a quick scan with Trendmicro's housecall as a followup or second opionion.

After a couple of clean scans and a reboot with no popup activity you will probably be fairly convinced that you have finally rid yourself of windows police pro. Congratulations!

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Donna Hansen  says:
2 months ago

I have not had to remove a rogue security program from my own computer, but I have removed it from a friends computer. It was the Rogue AntiVirus Pro 2010. I actually ended up doing a system restore in this instance. That was about two weeks ago. Now my Ex Father-in Law has the "Security Tool" rogue program on his PC. This one is worse than the first one I dealt with. It is blocking many of the applications I need to access in order to remove it. Some of the blocks are Security Center, Add/Remove Programs, Dos Command Screen, as well as the installation of any legitimate Antivirus software program. I am able to start in Safe Mode, although by the time I reached this point I had been in discovery mode for about 2 hours (discovering what the problem was) and decided to go home, research this rogue virus and then go back over to my inlaws tomorrow, with my own laptop in tow so I can access the internet with out interruption of popups or untimely crashes and attempt to remove this vicious malicious applicaton. I'll be there at Noon PST on 10-11-09 if anyone wishes to assist me remotely. I can be reached at dsparkay@yahoo.com and the same on YIM.....

Signed, A computer literate, who is literally baffeled by these types of viruses.

Donna.

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ajparker  says:
2 months ago

For many of these unfortunately a second computer for research of file names is near a necessity. One trick that can be handy is renaming (or copying and pasting to a new name) the legitimate files that the pest tries to prevent you reaching. So, if task manager won't open then copy taskmgr.exe to a new file name and call it bob.exe then run bob.exe and you should be able to look at processes. The same is true for removal tools. Many times mbam.exe is not allowed to run by the pest (although if you can kill of the running processes you should be able to get malwarebytes installed.)

It truly can be hand to hand though. Good luck, take them one step at a time from the standpoint of 1) disable (kill off running processes) 2) delete (remove any processes that may relaunch on the next boot and 3) deep scrub with a tool like malwarebytes or other respected spyware/virus removal.

Once you've deactivated running processes related to the pest things get MUCH easier. Good luck!

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