Secure Fighter Removal Guide
Secure Fighter is a misleading malware product that produces fake results in order to trick users into buying a full version. Secure Fighter or SecureFighter comes from the exact same family as SecuritySoldier, SecurityFighter, SaveArmor, SaveDefender, TrustWarrior, QuickHealCleaner, SoftSafeness, SafetyKeeper, BlockDefense, WiniFighter, SecureVeteran and SystemCop. Secure Fighter will present you with numerous amounts of fake system security notifications, these may even impersonate the Windows Security Center and state that your antivirus has been disabled. This is just a fake message and is not coming from Microsoft Windows at all but is rather coming from the malicious Secure Fighter itself. Secure Fighter may redirect your web browser to different sites. This means that while you are busy browsing the internet you will land on a page that you didn’t intend on going to. If this happens to you, leave the site immediately as you shouldn’t be anywhere other than where you where you are going. These websites may contain lots of advertisements and annoying pop up messages. Secure Fighter is so powerful that it is actually able to even block antivirus related websites. This means that even if you do figure out that your computer is infected with someone and wants to do download an antivirus program; it won’t let you access the website. You need to get Secure Fighter off your system, as quickly as it got on. You can choose between the manual or automatic removal process, but we warned that the automatic removal process, is going to be a much safer and easier option.
Secure Fighter Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions
Secure Fighter Manual Removal Instructions
This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Secure Fighter manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that Secure Fighter will be removed completely. So read the Secure Fighter removal steps carefully and good luck.
Before you start: Close all programs and Internet browsers. Also back up your computer in case you make a mistake and your computer stops working.
- Uninstall Secure Fighter Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall Secure Fighter if found. - To stop Secure Fighter processes (view process removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type taskmgr. The click the Processes tab and you’ll see a list of running processes.
Search and stop these Secure Fighter processes:
1 SecureFighter.lnk
SecureFighter.exe
SecureFighter.lnk
setup[1].exe
setup[2].exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”. - To Unregister Secure Fighter DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these Secure Fighter DLLs:
There are no dll's.
To locate the Secure Fighter DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type Secure Fighter and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the Secure Fighter DLL path, go to Start and then click on Run. In the Run command box, type cmd, and then click on OK.
To locate the exact DLL path, type cd in order to change the current directory. To display the contents of the directory, use the dir command. To remove the DLL file type regsvr32 /u FILENAME.dll (FILENAME is the name of the file that you want to unregister). - To unregister Secure Fighter registry keys (view registry keys removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type regedit > press OK.
Edit the value (on the right pane) by right-clicking on it and selecting the Modify option. Select the Delete option.
Search and delete these Secure Fighter registry keys: - If your homepage has been changed, go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > click on the General > click Use Default under Home Page. Add the your desired default homepage, then click Apply > click OK. Open a new web browser to check that you have your desired default homepage.
- Remove Secure Fighter Directories.
To find Secure Fighter directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following Secure Fighter directories:
There are no directories.
Right-click on the Secure Fighter folder and select Delete.A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder Secure Fighter and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting Secure Fighter could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes. - To remove Secure Fighter icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
You’ve completed the Secure Fighter manual removal instructions!
I hope this article has helped you solve your Secure Fighter problems. If you want to contribute to this article, post your comment below.
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