Smart Guard Protection Virus Removal - How to Uninstall Smart Guard Protection

Smart Guard Protection is a nasty fake antivirus program that designed to make money from the victims. This program is always downloaded into computer without asking user’s consent by bundling with free program, spam email attachment and Trojan horse. If unwittingly download the Smart Guard Protection, users will be continuously bothered by pop up window which displays constantly warning that errors and infections have been found and need to be removed immediately. As a matter of fact, to remove the virus by using the rogue program, you will be asked to purchase its full version of product before any action has been made. It is obvious that the final purpose for Smart Guard Protection is to lure money from your account. The threats are all fake, which can not be trusted at all. Do remember that the program also has the ability to download other infections on your PC. Thus, to get computer stay far away from danger, Smart Guard Protection must be removed as soon as possible.

Smart Guard Protection screenshot

What are the payloads about Attentive Antivirus?

* Smart Guard Protection is a fake program that distributed by Trojan horse
* Smart Guard Protection pops up a lot of warning messages and infections
* Smart Guard Protection blocks antivirus software and keeps destroying system files
* Smart Guard Protection is specially created to make money from users
* Smart Guard Protection has the ability to download unknown threats into your PC
* Smart Guard Protection may even steal your personal information and send it to cyber criminals

Manual instructions to remove Smart Guard Protection step by step

1. Restart your computer, keep tapping F8 key constantly before the system starting to launch, use your arrow key to highlight the Safe Mode with Networking when the Advanced Boot Options shows up, then press the Enter key.

2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together, find and stop the related processes of Smart Guard Protection.

[random name].exe

3. The listed files should be deleted completely (Click on Start menu -> Run option -> type “regedit” on the box and click “OK” -> find and delete them all)

%CommonAppData%\<random characters and numbers>
%LocalAppData%\<random characters and numbers>
%LocalAppData%\<random 3 characters>.exe
%Temp%\<random characters and numbers>


4. All registry keys of Smart Guard Protection should be found and deleted as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\svflooje\Enum\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SD2014" = "%AppData%\<random>\<random>.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\<random>\DefaultIcon "(Default)" = '%1'
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\shell = "explorer.exe,%AppData%\skype.dat"


Attention: As the virus has the ability to change the infected files and registry entries randomly, users may not be able to locate and delete the correct ones. It is not suggested to do it yourself if you are not familiar in computer knowledge. In order not to mess up the system, please click and start a live chat with expert here.