VirusLocker

Posted by elisein Blog Adware on June 2nd, 2011 | Leave a comment

VirusLocker is a legitimate program but in reality uses fake and exaggerated security alerts as a method into scaring you into purchasing the full version of the software. VirusLocker is installed on to your computer without your permission through the use of Trojans that masquerade as video or audio codecs. Once the program is installed, it will automatically launch and do a scan on your computer. Regardless of what it finds, it is advised that you do not purchase this software.

If you are unfortunate enough to have VirusLocker infecting your PC, don’t worry. In order to stop the program from running, you have to be able to stop the program from operating before trying to remove it. Because this program is a complete scam, it’s actually very difficult to remove. To ensure that you can get rid of the software from your PC, you have to be able to stop it from running in the most effective way before deleting it from your system for good.

To remove VirusLocker completely, you need to uninstall the VirusLocker related files firstly. To do this, you can open up My Computer, browse to C:/Program Files/ and then delete them. This will permanently get rid of the program files for VirusLocker, preventing it from running in the future. Secondly, you need to remove all the registry keys that link this program into Windows. Then open REGEDIT.EXE (which is found in the C:/Windows folder) and press CTRL+F to search for the program, after that delete all these keys when finding them.

When you perform this manual removal, you have to be very careful, because failure to do so can result in performance problems, registry errors as well as instability issues among other problems. But you can still get an easy and effective way to remove VirusLocker completely! Actually, there is an excellent removal tool that designs for removing any Adware program from your PC easily. PC Safe Doctor, a professional antivirus, can remove VirusLocker completely and automatically in a few steps.

1. Download PC Safe Doctor for free

2. Install and run online scan of PC Safe Doctor

3. After the scan finish, select all the detected virus and click Remove button

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