SpyGuarder Removal Guide
Do you know what SpyGuarder is?
DESCRIPTION
SpyGuarder or Spy Guarder, is a dirty application that infiltrates your computer through a Trojan infection or browser security hole. SpyGuarder poses as a cleaner program for your computer but we discovered that it does nothing of that sort. SpyGuarder is known to annoy computer users with popups and system alert messages. SpyGuarder attempts to perform a system scan only to display exaggerated scan results. SpyGuarder performs these functions only to scare you into purchasing the full SpyGuarder program.
Having SpyGuarder on your computer is about as bad as deleting the windows folder on your hard drive, it will cause serious issues for you. SpyGuarder.com is a website that promotes and sells the SpyGuarder program. SpyGuarder.com should be avoided at all costs.
In non-techie terms: SpyGuarder is an outright scam and should not be trusted. If you have SpyGuarder installed on your system then you should take action immediately to remove it. SpyGuarder does nothing but waste your time and money if you choose to purchase this bogus program. SpyGuarder should not be downloaded or installed under any circumstances.
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Aliases: SpyGuarder, Spy Guarder, SpyGuarder 2.1, Spy Guarder 2.1, Spyguarder.com
SpyGuarder Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions
SpyGuarder Manual Removal Instructions
This manual removal method is for techie computer users. SpyGuarder manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that SpyGuarder will be removed completely. So read the SpyGuarder 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 SpyGuarder Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall SpyGuarder if found. - To stop SpyGuarder 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 SpyGuarder processes:
Start SpyGuarder.lnk
SpyGuarder.lnk
spyguarder.exe
spyguarder_install[1].exe
SpyGuarder.exe
sg.dll,spyguarder.exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”. - To Unregister SpyGuarder DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these SpyGuarder DLLs:
redir.dll
redir.dll, redir[1].dll
To locate the SpyGuarder DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type SpyGuarder and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the SpyGuarder 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 SpyGuarder 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 SpyGuarder 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 SpyGuarder Directories.
To find SpyGuarder directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following SpyGuarder directories:
There are no directories.
Right-click on the SpyGuarder folder and select Delete.A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder SpyGuarder and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting SpyGuarder could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes. - To remove SpyGuarder icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
You’ve completed the SpyGuarder manual removal instructions!
I hope this article has helped you solve your SpyGuarder problems. If you want to contribute to this article, post your comment below.
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Thank You, THANK You, THANK YOU!!!
.. I apparently downloaded this NastyApp while surfing the web, half-asleep.
When I returned to this PC the next, morning, there were 31 internet windows open, all telling me about my virus threat level…Funny, my own Virus suite showed everything was a-okay. Aside from my infinite gratitude to the genius(es?) that coded SmitfraudFix.exe, I would also like to inform you of my experience while “Spyguarder 2.1″ was infiltrating my system:
In addition to the affects that you describe above, I was unable to launch my task manager with the Ctrl-Alt-Delete command, I would receive a message: “Task Manager has been disbled by your Administrator”. At that point I thought …but I AM the Administrator!!! Additionally when I tried to view Local Drive C: in “My Computer” the C: drive and the D: drive (recovery partition), were both HIDDEN!!! At that point I did a hard shutdown of this PC and went to another in my home that was unaffected, and Googled “Spyguarder 2.1 Removal”, which led me to your site. The procedure you outline was very easy to understand and execute, I applaud your accomplishment in making a seemingly complicated and daunting task, so effortless, granted after the cleaning was done I still needed to straighten other things out, some include: regional settings… when Spyguarder was active, my taskbar clock was in 24-hour mode, and displayed: “20:35:VIRUS ALERT!!!”. All but the core desktop shortcuts were gone (luckily, my Program Files folder was untouched) so I just manually restored them, I also corrected my Internet Options. And finally, when I started my Virus Software Suite, it didn’t display properly, I assumed it had been impacted in some way, so I deleted it using “Add/Delete Programs” and then downloaded and reinstalled the software from their site. All is back to nomal again, or I wouldn’t have been able to type all of this out due to all of the pop-ups and other issues I was experiencing, which would have led to lock-up/hanging system-hard shutdown. I do have one question though..If I had actually purchased the Spyguarder license, would my credit account had been violated/maxed-out, or would the software have actually worked??? (I tend to think the former!). Thank You again for making the Digital world a little less scary!!
I will return If I’m an idiot again, and click an alert that I don’t quite recognize.
Thanks again…
Sincerely,
Jerry D
}B^)
You have no idea how glad i am for this article, its all gone now and Ive been trying to find out how to get rid of it on my own cause its so frekan annoying and than i found this page and the Manual Removal Instructions are defiantly the easy fast way to go, that you soo much!!!!!!