Uninstall Security Shield – Helpful Security Shield uninstall guide!

on August 17th, 2011 | 4 Comments

security-shieldSecurity Shield is a program that is categorized as a rogue anti-spyware program for it always pretends displays fake security alerts and scan results in order to make you think your computer is infected. Most of the time, Security Shield will gets onto your computer through the use of malware and install itself secretly without your knowledge or permission. Seriously, Security Shield will sometimes track your Internet habits and then collect & send your personal information to a remote server. So to well protect your computer against kinds of computer threats and secure your data, you should immediately uninstall Security Shield from your computer.

Recommended Security Shield uninstall solution

Considering that Security Shield combines so well with the operating system, it is not recommended to manually uninstall it from Add/ Remove Programs as this will leave down some associated items either in your system drive or in Windows registry even though you are a computer expert. To completely uninstall Security Shield, it is recommended that you can run a professional program uninstaller such as Perfect Uninstaller. In this way, you can quickly get the Security Shield uninstall job finished within steps as you can see below.

1. After installing Perfect Uninstaller on your computer, close all other running processes or directly boot your computer into safe mode.

2. Run Perfect Uninstaller and locate & highlight Security Shield in the display name list.

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3. Press “Uninstall” and then follow the prompts to finish the uninstallation.

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By the way, Perfect Uninstaller also helps to uninstall Antimalware Doctor, uninstall Adobe flash player , uninstall Norton Internet Security or uninstall Growl, uninstall Little Snitch completely.

Manual Security Shield uninstall instruction

If you insist on uninstall Security Shield uninstall manually, you can try the below steps. But it is really not recommended to inexperienced computer users to secure the proper running of the computer.

1. Boot your computer into safe mode to quit all running processes.

2. Then go to Start, and then Settings, Control Panel; double click on “Add/Remove Programs”.

3. Locate & highlight Security Shield and then click on “Change or Remove”.

4. Follow the online wizard to finish the uninstall processes.

5. Search your hard disk to make sure that all these Security Shield files have been removed:

%UserProfile%AppDataLocal<random>.exe

%AppData%MicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsSecurity Shield.lnk

%UserProfile%Local SettingsApplication Data<random>.exe

%UserProfile%Start MenuProgramsSecurity Shield.lnk

6. Open Registry Editor and remove these related registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunOnce “<random characters>

To sum, even though you can uninstall Security Shield manually, it is not safe to the computer and your data at all. To well protect your computer, do not hesitate to download and run a professional Windows uninstall utility! It will get rid all of your unneeded programs within clicks.

4 Responses to Uninstall Security Shield – Helpful Security Shield uninstall guide!

  1. David L -  August 17, 2011 at 3:50 am

    It’s much easier to understand when you put it that way! Thanks and you help me to uninstall uninstall Security Shield completely.

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  2. Sim Hawkins -  August 17, 2011 at 4:11 am

    That’s way the best answer so far to easily uninstall Security Shield!

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  3. David Spinelli -  August 17, 2011 at 4:28 am

    Way to go on this essay, helped a ton.

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  4. Miriam Freeman -  August 17, 2011 at 4:41 am

    removing Security Shield manually is very dangerous, i think the first method is more feasible.

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