Windows Accelerator Pro Explanation
Windows Accelerator Pro is considered as a rogue antivirus program which is designed to scare victims into paying money by fake alerts and warnings.Once installed, Windows Accelerator Pro disables your legit antivirus program in order to protect itself being removed. What’s worse, your antivirus program may be considered as an infection by Windows Accelerator Pro and removed. Some legit programs are disabled like antivirus program. This fake warning is what you get when you try to run a legit program:
Firewall has blocked a program from accessing the Internet
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
is suspected to have infected your PC. This type of virus intercepts entered data and transmits them to a remote server.
Windows Accelerator Pro is configured to pop up to scan automatically after you log in windows and then displays fake alerts, fake infections and fake warnings. The scanning and scanning result are nothing real but totally fake. You are suggested to ignore it since the all the fake infections, fake alerts and fake warning are specially programmed to scare and convince you. When you try to deal with the fake scanning result, you are being told that you need to pay for a license before you are allowed to. This is the real purpose of Windows Accelerator Pro: to scare you into paying them by fake scanning results.
Here are some fake warnings:
Error
Trojan activity detected. System integrity at risk.
Full system scan is highly recommended.
Error
System data security is at risk!
To prevent potential PC errors, run a full system scan.
As you can see, all these prove one thing that Windows Accelerator Pro is only concerned about collecting money by tricking victims. You are advised to terminate this nasty scareware at the first moment before more threats. Here’s the manual removal solution which you can follow and remove Windows Accelerator Pro by yourself.
Efficient Removal Solution Details
Solution 1: Remove Windows Accelerator Pro Manually
Step-by-step Guide to Remove / Uninstall Windows Accelerator Pro
1) Boot your computer into Safe Mode with Networking.To perform this procedure, please restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up, then using arrow key to select “Safe Mode with Networking” from the list and press ENTER to get into that mode.
2) Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together to pull up Window Task Manager and end suspicious processes:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msascui.exe “Debugger” = ‘svchost.exe’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “3948550101″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “xas”
4) Check the following directories and remove all these associated files:
%windows%\system32\drivers\Windows Accelerator Pro.sys
%CommonPrograms%\Windows Accelerator Pro.lnk
%DesktopDir%\Windows Accelerator Pro.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Windows Accelerator Pro\Uninstall Windows Accelerator Pro
%LocalAppdata %\Windows Accelerator Pro virus\uninstall\Windows Accelerator Pro.lnk
%program files%\NPSWF32.dll
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Windows Accelerator Pro.lnk
5) Disable suspicious startup items. click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated.
6) Restart your computer to the normal mode and check the effect.
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Solution 2: Remove Windows Accelerator Pro automatically (with SpyHunter)
Step A. Download removal tool SpyHunter
1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.
2) Follow the instructions to install SpyHunter
Step B. Run SpyHunter to block Windows Accelerator Pro
Run SpyHunter and click "Malware Scan" button to scan your computer, after detect this unwanted program, clean up relevant files and entries completely.
Step C. Restart your computer to take effect.