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Remove SoftStronghold, SoftStronghold Removal Guide

By Gina on October 26, 2009 | Rogue Antispyware, Repair Registry 2008, RepairRegistry 2008, RepairRegistry2008, Remove Repair Registry 2008, SoftStronghold, Soft Stronghold, Soft Strong hold, SoftStrong hold, Remove SoftStronghold Remove SoftStronghold, SoftStronghold Removal Guide

SoftStronghold is a malware that comes from the creators of some recent security frauds such as SoftVeteran, SoftCop, SoftSoldier and many others. Soft Stronghold is nothing but a clone of all of these fake system protection applications and is by no means meant to provide system security.

SoftStronghold is only good at imitating some of the actions of real security programs such as scanning computer for viruses or displaying warning messages. Unfortunately, none of them are true. Soft Strong hold is distributed online and seeks to infect computers with low security level, so that it could scare the users by pretending to find numerous security threats and seduce them with the promise of providing system security in exchange for some financial investment. Not only SoftStronghold seeks to sell its non-existing software, it also slows down the system performance, hijacks the web browser and violates the computer's security. It is very important to remove Soft Stronghold upon detection.

SoftStronghold websites

softstronghold.com Learn how to block rogue websites

New processes created

akx4.tmp.exe
205z0sp95ad.exe
SoftStronghold.exe
uninstall.exe
10246h9zktool4d5.exe Learn how to remove malicious processes

New SoftStronghold registry entries created

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SoftStronghold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SoftStronghold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SoftStronghold
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "akx4.tmp.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SoftStronghold" Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan your registry errors
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New files and directories created

c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\SoftStronghold.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftStronghold
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftStronghold\1 SoftStronghold.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftStronghold\2 Homepage.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftStronghold\3 Uninstall.lnk
c:\Program Files\SoftStronghold Software
c:\Program Files\SoftStronghold Software\SoftStronghold
c:\Program Files\SoftStronghold Software\SoftStronghold\SoftStronghold.exe
c:\Program Files\SoftStronghold Software\SoftStronghold\uninstall.exe
c:\WINDOWS\10246h9zktool4d5.exe
c:\WINDOWS\1045ztroj92a.ocx
c:\WINDOWS\10520hac5too979z.bin
c:\WINDOWS\system32\20151worm9z4.ocx
c:\WINDOWS\system32\205z0sp95ad.exe
c:\WINDOWS\system32\2069sz5mbot179.dll
%Temp%\akx4.tmp.exe Learn how to unregister malicious DLL files

How to remove SoftStronghold

To remove SoftStronghold manually you must block rogue SoftStronghold related websites, remove malicious processes and registry entries, unregister dlls and delete all malicious SoftStronghold files from your computer.
Please note: cleaning your computer is a difficult and dangerous task, manually editing registry entries and removing processes and files may cause serious damage to your system. We strongly recommend scanning your computer with one of the legitimate antispyware scanners.

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