Keep getting annoying pop-ups with a warning of “virus detected” from Vista Anti-Spyware 2013? It’s asking me to pay money to activate the program? I can’t even close those alert pages because if I do that there’ will be more pages popping up? Should I trust on this weird program? How do I do to handle this? Read this post to resolve the problem.

General Description of Vista AntiSpyware 2013

Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 is a fake security application that has been labeled as a malicious malware, which can start itself when windows system is running on the infected computer. The program seems to be legal and nothing difference with other popular antivirus if you simply judge it from its user interface, but it is just fake Internet Security 2013 virus. Where did this malware come from? The rogue is purposely designed by hackers and promoted through open networks all over the world. Normally it’s hidden in the malicious codes in the photos and videos from adult sites. Once you visit those pages, the virus can be installed into your system without any approval and awareness from your end. Vista AntiSpyware 2013 can start with the windows automatically, once running it will immediately take actions to create fake alerts in order to trick you for money.

The fake antivirus normally performs a full scan and then scares you by popping up lots of fake alerts. If you try to hit the button to fix problems, you will find this rogue asking you to pay certain money to use it so that you can use it to remove all the so called threats. Under this circumstance, should I pay and can it actually fix my computer? The answer is absolutely a No. Paying money to activate it can bring no help to the security of your computer but only put your computer in danger instead. This fake is so smart that it may download other dangerous threats from the Internet and thus take control of your computer to open back door for intended hackers so them can easily remote in your system and steal everything they need such as business confidential information, personal private message, bank details and other valuable things that can bring them illegal benefit. So how to remove Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 completely? Manual removal is needed to get rid of it.

A Screen Shot of Vista AntiSpyware 2013 Infection

vista anti-spyware 2013

The Symptoms of Vista AntiSpyware 2013 Infection

A)You will find Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 runs itself with unregistered version in the title and start a perform scan automatically then brings a scan result of alert listing there are a lot of threats detected in your system.

B) You got alert pages popping up with the contents below:

“System hijack! System security threat was detected. Viruses and/or spyware may be damaging your system now. Prevent infection and data loss or stealing by running a free security scan.”

“System danger! Your system security is in danger. Privacy threats detected. Spyware, keyloggers or Trojans may be working in the background right now. Perform an in-depth scan and removal now, click here.”

“System hijack! System security threat was detected. Viruses and/or spyware may be damaging your system now. Prevent infection and data loss or stealing by running a free security scan.”

“Critical System Alert! Unknown software is try to take control over your system!”

C) A pop-up says that Vista AntiSpyware 2013 has blocked a program from accessing the Internet and your computer has been infected by some kind of virus so that you need to activate it to remove all infections.

D) There Shows a dangerous triangle mark with the words “Attention: danger!” and tell you that the threat with your system will exploit and bring the following affection.

If there’s any difficulty for you to remove Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 from your computer, please contact YooSecurity professionals to keep your computer safe and virus free, or you can follow our step-by-step virus removal instruction below to clean the virus yourself. (For advanced computer users)

Best Way to Remove Vista AntiSpyware 2013 Step by Step:

Firstly, please go to the folder option to show hidden files, here’s the guide:

1) Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel
2) Click on Appearance and Personalization item


3) Click on Folder Options item
4) Click on View tab in the Folder Options window


5) Check the box of Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category

Next, please follow these steps to get rid of Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 manually:
Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Open the Windows Task Manager.
If that didn’t work, try another way. Press the Start button and click on the Run option. This will start the Run tool. Type in task-mgr and press OK. This should start the Windows Task Manager.

Step 2: Within the Windows Task Manager click on the Processes tab. Find the process by name. random.exe related to Vista Anti-Spyware 2013. Then scroll the list to find required process. Select it with your mouse or keyboard and click on the End Process button. This will kill the process.

Step3: Remove malicious files of Vista AntiSpyware 2013.

C:\windows\system32\services.exe
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s..s-servicecontroller_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_2b54b20ee6fa07b1\services.exe
C:\Windows\Installer\{bbee3ba2-89af-930c-bb78-1fb4e17db3cc}

Step4: Delete malicious registry entries of Vista AntiSpyware 2013.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer
“EnableShellExecuteHooks”= 1 (0x1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Video Show You on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:

In conclusion, Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 is such a serious problem that you can’t just ignore it, otherwise it will ruin your computer really soon. The malware keep popping up lots of fake alerts to confuse you, whenever the fake alerts pop up and then you click on them, you are always suggested by the rogue to pay money in order to activate it so that you can get your computer clean and remove the fake detected threats. In this case, please don’t trust in the fake alert because it’s totally a scam. If you pay the money your computer are not getting better at all. Besides, the malware is so smart that it can find other threats from remote servers, which can damage your computer severely and make it completely vulnerable to cyber attacks. Thus, to save your computer, it’s necessary learning how to get rid of Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 completely and safely.

Kindly reminder: Manual removal needs expert skills, if you failed to remove Vista Anti-Spyware 2013 by yourself,please contact YooSecurity professionals to keep your computer safe and virus free.

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on May 21, 2013 4:51 am

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