Remove Personal Security [Removal Guide]

This guide will give you easy instructions on how to remove Personal Security for free.


What is Personal Security? (Information)

Personal Security is a fake security software which uses fraudulent strategies by displaying false or exaggerated security issues on your computer rather than any legitimate ones to coerce you into purchasing their software.


Personal Security Screenshots


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Follow these instructions to continue for the automatic removal:

You have to start computer in Safe Mode by doing the following:

• Restart your computer
  
• After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, keep tapping F8.
  
• Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear
  
• Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode with Networking.

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1. Please download this tool; Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.



2. Install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware by double clicking on mbam-setup.exe

3. Follow the prompts. Make sure that Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware are checked. Then click finish.

4. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will automatically update itself after the install, you can press the OK button to close that box and you will now be at the main program as shown below.

If you are having problems with the updater, you can use this link to manually update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with the latest database



5. Close ALL open Windows, Programs, File or Folders.

6. Make sure you are on the Scanner tab. Select Perform quick scan then click the Scan button as shown above.

7. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for infected files as shown below.


8. When the scan is finished a message box will appear, click Ok to continue.

9. Click Show Results.


10. You will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections like shown below. Yours may look different depending on the infection you have.

11. Click on Remove seletced


12. When removing the files, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware may require you to restart the computer in order to do a complete removal. If it displays a message stating that it needs to restart, please allow it to do so.

13. After that you can close the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware window, your computer is now cleaned.

To protect your computer from future threats like this, you may want to consider purchasing the Pro version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with real-time protection from this link.

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If you are still experiencing problems or difficulties following this guide or require any assistance removing this software, please post your questions in our Virus, Spyware & Malware Removal forums for free help.

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Last edited by Doctor Inferno on 29th December 2009, 4:48 am; edited 1 time in total

Can this be done while in Safe Mode? The malware will not allow my browsers to open in normal mode.
I am trying to rid the home PC computer (Windows XP Pro SP3) of this lovely Xmas present...
Thanks

Yes, it can be done is safe mode.

Thank you!! Worked like a charm!

No prob, glad I could help.

I cannot run this program after it downloads. Can you help? It says I do not have permission to access the file.

I have managed to run the scan in safe mode and the malware is completely removed. Thank you for the download.

Phew - I've removed Personal Security via Logmein on a friends PC running XPHome, using the above method in Normal Mode!

If it comes back, I'll have to use Safe Mode.

Thanks for the prompt. :-)

John

Does this really work and is it free and easy? My daughter's brand new (Christmas present) mini lap top is infected with this and I need to get it off. Not too computer saavy. Thanks.

Hello,

No harm trying. If it doesn't post in our malware removal forums for help.

I was able to quickly remove: I opened the computer in safe mode (F9 before the microsoft logo comes up), then went to C: drive and "uninstall" the Personal Sec part. I also had to scan through and make sure all exec files associated with the malware were deleted. After that I added the full Norton 360 pacakage to her mini, instead of the trial version that came already installed.
Thanks for the help.

My girlfriend accidentally downloaded Personal Security. It wouldn't ket us into GeekPolice.net. The easy solution was I downloaded the file on my laptop, then I used a jump drive and put it on her laptop. Then I rebooted in safe mode and followed the directions. Worked like a charm.

I have just tried to remove Personal Security used Malware in safe mode, and despite isolating and supposedly removing the offending files after running a scan, as soon as I restart the computer the Personal Security is still there.

Any suggestions? It is frustrating me beyond belief....

noddie73 wrote:

I have just tried to remove Personal Security used Malware in safe mode, and despite isolating and supposedly removing the offending files after running a scan, as soon as I restart the computer the Personal Security is still there.

Any suggestions? It is frustrating me beyond belief....

Please post your questions in our Virus, Spyware & Malware Removal forums for free help and a Tech staff will help look into the problem.

I'm in the same boat. Before the scan opens my shows at error code 732(12007,0). Does anyone know what that effects?
It does open and complete the scan but it doesn't remove the Personal secuirty malware.

Thank you very much for the removal solution, so far so good.