These days we rely and trust our computers to safely store many things that we consider valuable. But virus breaks your trust even if you don’t do anything with your computer. A virus enters to your system when you visit a website containing malware. The truth of the matter is that no particular sites out there have harmful malware on them and most times the site owners don’t even know there is a problem. Even if you do not clicked any link but still some of the worst programs like   protect shield enters to your system. This malware is designed to look just like anti-malware software. Protect Shield is a dangerous cyber threat which is known to be spread through browser hijacking techniques with a help of Trojans.  Mostly it manages to get on board unnoticed and then starts its saleable movement based on fake system scanners and alerts.

At the beginning an advertisement appears on your screen pretending to be an online antimalware scanner. This application states that your system is virus infected once this advertisement finishes. Then a message appears on the screen stating that you need to install Protect Shield as it is the only way to remove this infection from your system. Then it starts a fake scan on your screen without your permission. After finishing scan It shows a lot of infection in your system. Different alerts keep appearing in your system stating the being there of various infections inside your system. Also it alerts notifying that your personal data inside the computer is being shifted to various remote locations. Also as suggested by this malware program the only way that these infections in your system can be fixed as suggested by this program is only and only when you buy the full version of Protect Shield. This is it how this malware try to sell you its full version.

All of these issues can be prevented with the use of security software on your computer. As this program damages files, folders, permissions and registry keys without our permission, a solid application program is needed to fix all the damages caused by it to our system. If you have updated anti virus then you are protected otherwise If your computer has been infiltrated with this malware remove it fast with a system and registry scanner.

If you want to remove it manually then follow this

1. Press CTRL+ALT+Del keys together and stop all Protect Shield process in the windows task manager.
2. Uninstall Protect Shield program from windows Add/Remove Programs.
3. Open windows registry. Find and Remove all Protect Shield Registry Files using regedit.exe command
4. Perform a Windows search using term Protect Shield and remove all the detected files.

It does not always guarantee complete deletion of the Protect Shield, since some files might be concealed or may automatically reanimate themselves later. So it is recommended that you should use automatic removal software to ensure that your system is safe. A solid program like Reimage you can use to get rid of this type of issues. Reimage not only removes the infection present in your system but it also prevents our computer from getting infected by the same Trojan again. Reimage works by correcting the damage thereby restoring the performance of the PC.


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