System Progressive Protection Rogue Removal Instructions

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The Emsisoft malware research team has discovered an outbreak of the System Progressive Protection rogue. Emsisoft Anti-Malware detects this malware as Rogue.Win32.SystemProtection.

System Progressive Protection is a rogue scanner application. A rogue application tries to trick you by displaying false positive or misleading scan results, which say that your computer has a problem, or is infected with viruses or trojans, but you will not be able to fix anything before you purchase the program.

Creates new files:

%CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].exe
%CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].ico
%CommonAppDAta%\[random]\[random]
%UserProfile%\Desktop\System Progressive Protection.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\System Progressive Protection\System Progressive Protection.lnk

Creates new registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
[random] = %CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\System Progressive Protection
DisplayIcon = %CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].ico,0
UninstallString = %CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].exe -u
ShortcutPath = %CommonAppData%\[random]\[random].exe -u
DisplayName = System Progressive Protection

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How to remove the System Progressive Protection (Rogue.Win32.SystemProtection)?

To remove this malware infection, please download and install Emsisoft Anti-Malware. Run a full scan on all drives and move all detected items to quarantine.