Description of DeusCleaner and consequences of its residing on your PC
DeusCleaner is a new released very aggressive threat for your PC developed by not yet identified fraudsters. It may easily reach your PC when you download free of charge applications, especially audio and video codec, browse through the web-sites with explicit content, especially porn sites, or open e-mails from unknown senders.
It combines very aggressive behavior with quite persuasive arguments for its usefulness. Namely, DeusCleaner pop-ups from 5 to 10 hard-to-close alerts when it finds a gap in your PC protection. These pop-ups lead to web-site of DeusCleaner, prompting you to purchase the tool necessary for saving your career, marriage and everything related to personal status by complete and irreversible erasing of all evidences that you visited explicit content sites or stored discreditable or prohibited data on your PC. It is very convincingly explained how a man is watched by FBI and employers, so great that we also decided to buy the DeusCleaner))).
There are two stages of infection with DeusCleaner by analogy with all other rogue software.
First stage: before licensed copy installation – very aggressive behavior, permanent hardly removable reminders when user is on-line. Complete Internet browser dysfunction. If user is off-line too long, annoying reminders may also appear quite often. However, right after disconnection alerts stop to appear, perhaps to prevent a user from making assumption that PC is infected.
Second Stage: after licensed copy installation – DeusCleaner completely controls your browsing pattern, easily garble results in any Internet search engine. In addition, several cases have been registered when after installation pop-ups calling for upgrading DeusCleaner appeared.
DeusCleaner Technical Details
- Full name: DeusCleaner 2008
- Type: Rogue anti-spyware
- Origin: Russian Federation, Ukraine \ www.DeusCleaner.com, www.DeusCleanerOnline.com
- Related threats: not closely related with any known rogue software
DeusCleaner Screenshots (click to enlarge):
DeusCleaner fake anti-spyware
DeusCleaner fake on-line spyware scanner
DeusCleaner web-site (www.deuscleaner.com)
DeusCleaner security warnings and alerts
Signs of being infected with DeusCleaner
The very first signs of that DeusCleaner infected your PC are related to Internet settings and browsing pattern. If your mailbox, for instance, changed its skins or filters were added or deleted, it is very likely that DeusCleaner break trough the security system of your PC. It is also very likely that PC is infected if your search results in any popular Internet engine look strange, for example, 9 of 10 first listed results are bids of software or erotic nature merchants, if only you did not look for them.
If pop-ups displayed in your monitor saying that you need immediately to purchase a tool for complete erasing all unnecessary and dangerous for your status records, in order to protect your privacy or something like that, escape them immediately. If you were not fast enough, your PC need to be scanned and cleaned as your are infected.
Another common sign of DeusCleaner residing in your PC is enormous enlarging and contamination of PC Registry. It is easy to get rid of any unnecessary trash in PC Registry with our Registry Cleaner. Click here for more information.
Automatic Removal of DeusCleaner from your PC
Detection of DeusCleaner on your PC may be complicated. Therefore we recommend you start up free scan of your PC for malware and download our Spyware Removal Tool. Very effective solution is to combine it with Registry Cleaner as explained above. You may download both them clicking the links below or download one of them if you believe you have only one of these problems.
Download Spyware Removal Tool
Download Registry Cleaner
Manual Removal of DeusCleaner:
Manual removal of DeusCleaner may be dangerous if performed by a user without significant experience. However, strictly following the guidelines below, one may throw DeusCleaner out the computer.
Note: we take no responsibility for any damage caused to a reader by incorrect application of these manual removal guidelines.
Remove DeusCleaner files and dll’s
Deus Cleaner.lnk
Deus Cleaner Help.lnk
Deus Cleaner.lnk
Uninstall Deus Cleaner.lnk
DBInfo.ver
FireFoxCache.set
FireFoxCookie.set
FireFoxHistory.set
IE Cache.set
IE Cookie.set
IE History.set
OfficeTmpFiles.set
Opera Cache.set
Opera Cookie.set
Opera Download.set
Opera List.set
Recycle.set
StBakupFiles.set
TmpFiles.set
WinClipBoard.set
WinPreftech.set
WinRecent.set
WinRunHistory.set
WinTmp.set
WinUpdate.set
DCleaner.exe
DCUpdate.exe
Help\DCHelpEng.chm
scan.log
SDmodul.dll
unins000.dat
unins000.exe
working.log
Unregister DeusCleaner registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Deus Cleaner
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Deus Cleaner
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{F3175B35-99CE-4297-A7E1-292562DD7AF3}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Deus Cleaner
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\Deus Cleaner
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SDmodul.Secure Delete with Deus Cleaner
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Deus Cleaner
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Deus Cleaner_is1
