How do I uninstall this Obrona Cleaner from my new laptop? It is not in control panel. Where can I find it out? Yesterday when my son clicked on something strange from a wired website, then I find it somehow gets on the desktop. I have tried to delete it from the desktop, but it fails. This strange Obrona Cleaner always reports that my computer is in high risk. I don’t believe that, because my computer is a new one. But that pop ups are very annoying. So please help me remove it completely soon here, thanks!

Brief Introduction to Obrona Cleaner

Obrona Cleaner is not a reliable security tool that can protect and take care well of your computer. To the contrary, it is a rogue antivirus program to invade computer running system from windows XP, Vista to Windows 7, 8 or 8.1. Obrona Cleaner usually runs a full and automatic scan and tells you that your computer is infected with many threats which indicate that the security of computer is very low. However, in fact, your computer has no viruses at all, this fake program just throws fake security message as a tactic to scare innocent and inexperienced users to make them convince that their computer is really under high risk. And then when users try to remove those threats, this Obrona Cleaner program will pop up a message to recommend you to purchase its full or registered version. If you are at this step, you should notice that Obrona Cleaner is a scam and this program is a fake.  And if you really pay money for so-called registered version, this fake program will activates its full function and also disables some important system functions to keep you out from the computer system. You even cannot close the virus window to access your files on your disk. Obrona Cleaner virus sometimes also damages the troubleshoot modes to make it harder to remove. Don’t trust this fake program, it only bring bad damages to computer but cannot do good to computer. If you find it on your device, please just remove it soon.

Obrona Cleaner virus will perform destructive activities on computer if you cannot uninstall it as soon as possible. Once it deeply roots into system, it will change and disable important system files or processes. In this aspect, it can disable executable files or key files of antivirus, which will destroy firewall of antivirus and disable antivirus program. That means your antivirus will be useless. Moreover, Obrona Cleaner virus can gradually disable windows firewall. In addition, this fake security application Obrona Cleaner blocks you access to security web sites in order to prevent you from downloading real removal tools and follow proper guide to delete it from the infected computer. What’s worse, when victims purchase this fake security application, they will reveal their banking details to cyber criminals, which will help cyber criminals access your bank account and extort your money. In a word, this fake antivirus program Obrona Cleaner  is a dangerous virus to put your computer security and financial security into bad condition. What you should do promptly is to eradicate Obrona Cleaner and install a real reputable antivirus program to protect your computer instead of a fake one.

A Screenshot of This Obrona Cleaner Infection (Fake Antivirus Alert)

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Properties of the Fake Anti-virus Spyware

-Always pops up once you boot up your computer or run a program, claiming your computer is in great risk

-Asking you to purchase a code to activate this software, so that it can help you to remove the threats in your computer

-Can modify the computer registry once it is installed into the computer

-Can prohibit legit program to run, including your anti-virus programs

-Can occupy a great usage of CPU, which slows down the performance of computer or even causes blue screen

Finding all or some of these symptoms on your computer, sorry to say that your computer is infected by Obrona Cleaner virus. Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts for manual removal guide. Also, we will provide a short removal guide below for computer literate.

Manual Removal Guide of Fake Anti-virus Program (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of Obrona Cleaner removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Try to access the Safe mode with Networking.

In order to get into this mode, you should restart your infected computer and tap F8 key constantly when computer is booting back up to get safe mode options on the screen, use arrow keys to highlight the option you want to enter then press E/Enter key. * Usually, this rogue program will be disabled from automatically starting in safe modes. Users will be able to fix the Obrona Cleaner problem without constantly blocks from the fake AV. If you are a Windows 8 user, click here and learn how to boot up Windows 8 to safe mode.

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For those computer which are XP operating systems, you will need to you choose your XP system after you choose safe mode with networking, you can press Enter directly without choosing any thing.

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After loading files, you need to log in your account to get the safe mode with networking, for XP users, please choose Yes when you see the dialog.

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Step 2: Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to Obrona Cleaner, the name of the process of it is random.

XP task manager

Step 3:Click on Start button at the right lower corner, then click on Control Panel, then you will come to the Control Panel windows, click on Add and Remove Programs.

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Then try to find Obrona Cleaner, highlight it and choose Remove.

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Step 4: Click on Start button or press Win+R, then type regedit in the box to open Registry Editor, after that, try to find
C:\Users\profile name here\AppData\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Video Guide on How to Remove Rogue Program:

YouTube Video Removal Guide:

Conclusion:

Once Obrona Cleaner virus is installed to your computer it will be configured to run automatically along with the operating system, and each time when you start up your computer it will pretend to be computer internet security software to run and display fake security state of your computer to scare you. It aims at cheating out of your money by recommending you to purchase its fake full version. This fake Obrona Cleaner also performs destructive activities on your computer. It damages the main system files to make it be able to pop up even under troubleshooting mode such as safe mode and safe mode with networking. It damages some fatal system to slow down computer performance. What you should do promptly is to remove fake Obrona Cleaner and install a real reputable antivirus program to protect your computer instead of a fake one.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a quite level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Obrona Cleaner virus? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on April 20, 2015 9:30 pm

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