My Security Shield Antivirus is not a legitimate and Real Antispyware Program but itself a spyware, more precisely a new kind of rogue antispyware program from the same family of Security Master AV and My Security Engine. The only difference being the core files are modified a little bit and the name is changed to hide it's detection by legitimate Antivirus programs installed on your PC.
This program is distributed with the help of trojans. When the trojan is started, it will automatically download and install My Security Shield Antivirus onto your computer without your consent and knowledge and configure it to run when you start Windows.
When My Security Shield Antivirus is started, it will imitate a system scan and detect a lot of various infections that will not be fixed unless you first purchase the program. Important to know, all of these reported infections are fake and don't actually exist on your computer! So you can safely ignore the scan results.
While My Security Shield Antivirus is running, it will block the ability to run any programs as a method to scare you into thinking that your computer is infected with malware.
The following warnings will be shown
Warning! Access conflict detected!
An unidentified program is trying to access system process address space.
Process Name: AllowedForm
Location: C:Windows...notepad.exe
Warning! Identity theft attempt detected
Memory access problem
WindowsErrorForm has encountered a problem at address 0x1FC408.
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
If you see this error again, operational information can be irrevocably lost.
Warning! Virus detected
Threat Detected: Trojan-PSW.VBS.Half
Description: This is a VBScript-virus. It steals user's password
Of course, all of above warnings and alerts nothing more but a scam and like false scan results should be ignored!
As you can see, My Security Shield Antivirus is a scam that designed with one purpose to trick you into purchasing the so-called full version of the program. Do not fall for these virus creators bait into buying the Rogueware! and if you already have, you should contact your credit card company and dispute the charges.
And now coming back on How to Get Rid of My Security Shield Antivirus, you need a solid program to fix the damages, the rogue has caused. It alters files, folders,permissions and registry keys.
Though some anti-Malware programs like MalwareBytes claim to delete this malicious fake anti-spywares, they cannot correct all the damages it causes
So you need something as good as Reimage, to fix all the damages that was left behind, to delete all the traces completely....to revive your PC from malicious trojans that may still reside and make your PC slow and to stop from getting re-infected.
When you try to fix this rogue, by running legitimate antivirus you encounter that app cannot be executed warning, task manager disabled, registry editing disabled etc..
So, in order to get rid of My Security Shield Antivirus completely, start your PC in safe mode with networking, If you can`t run the IE, then you should repair the proxy settings of Internet Explorer. Run Internet Explorer, Click Tools -> Internet Options. Select Connections Tab and click to Lan Settings button. Uncheck "Use a proxy server" box. Click OK. Click Apply. Click OK. And go to http://reimagepcrepair.com>Visit Reimage For a Complete Scan Now to Get Rid of My Security Shield Antivirus Completely
Tom Parks works for Microsoft. He is currently researching on PC optimization and system security. Visit his blog http://pcfixeasy.blogspot.com
