Windows Software Guard Removal Guide

Windows Software Guard is a fake antivirus program that cannot detect and remove any kind of virus, malware or trojan. However, Windows Software Guard pretends to be a legitimate antivirus which can protect computers from the attack malwares. Once Windows Software Guard is installed on the computer, it will start automatically when Windows boot. Then Windows Software Guard will do a fake scan on the computer and will definitely scare the user with pop ups which shows that the computer has been infected by a lot of malwares. Windows Software Guard will repeatedly shows the pop ups to urge the user to purchase the full version of Windows Software Guard so that to remove all the threats. However, Windows Software Guard cannot detect and remove any kind of virus, malware and trojan.

Windows Software Guard can be removed by stopping the processes and removing the files by using Emsisoft HiJackFree. Then the user should remove the registry entries added or modified by Windows Software Guard shown in the removal guide below. All files related to Windows Software Guard must be deleted.

Windows Software Guard should be removed immediately!

Windows Software Guard Removal Guide
Kill Process
(How to kill a process effectively?)
[random].exe

Delete Registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = %UserProfile%\Application Data\[random].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random].exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random]"

Remove Folders and Files
%AppData%\[random].exe
remove the file in the autorun settings