by MRSHINYSHOES on October 24th, 2009

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I visited an anti-virus site once called RegCure, and now I get these messages from RegCure to "fix 1,202 errors in my computer". They pop up everytime I open up my computer. Anyone else experienced this before, and how do I get rid of these messages?

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by sunyboy on November 21st, 2009
I BOUGHT A NEW COMPUTER 2 YRS AGO AND I LEARNED THE LESSON THE HARD WAY.DONT SPARE EXPENSE WITH FREE ANYTHING GET A FULL AVG ANTI VIRUS .
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- AVG hardly does anything that its supposed to and you have to buy it in order to unlock all its "potential" usefulness.
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by Ubiquitous Name on October 24th, 2009
At a glance it looks like RegCure is a rogue antivirus of sorts. Basically an AntiVirus that's made to mess up your computer (lol, irony)
De install it, and keep it de installed. Problem solved. :B
More information can be found here:
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6122_102-0.html?threadID=348776
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- Thank you Ubiquitous. :)
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  by MRSHINYSHOES on October 24th, 2009
- Any time. Good luck curing RegCure.
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  by Ubiquitous Name on October 24th, 2009
- I can't seem to uninstall it. A message from Windows says I don't have "permission" or something like that. And now my Kaspersky Anti-Virus Program seems to have stopped working properly. :(
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  by MRSHINYSHOES on October 24th, 2009
- You might wanna try uninstalling it in safe mode.
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by Kewl Guy - has gone 360 on October 24th, 2009
yes i have used to the same app that you are talking about and saw the similiar pop ups, but when I removed the program the pop ups disappeared as well
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- How did you remove them?
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  by MRSHINYSHOES on October 24th, 2009
- by going into the control panel and clicking on add/remove programs
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  by Kewl Guy - has gone 360 on October 24th, 2009
- I did, and it won't allow me to uninstall it. There's a Windows message saying that I don't have permission to uninstall it, or something like that. And now it seems my Kaspersky Anti-virus program doesn't seem to be working! :(
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  by MRSHINYSHOES on October 24th, 2009
- oh oh!
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  by Kewl Guy - has gone 360 on October 25th, 2009
- Lol. No worries. Everything's fine now.
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  by MRSHINYSHOES on October 25th, 2009
- good to hear
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by qwerty on October 24th, 2009
sounds like regcure is a virus itself
first go to add remove programs and try to uninstall it
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go here first download and backup the registry
http://erunt.en.softonic.com/
then go here
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix
set up a restore point on your pc
download and run combo fix
this is powerful software, if it makes change to your pc after running, that affect it's performance, use system restore to restore to the point that you made prior to doing this
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by therapist on October 24th, 2009
They want you to pay for a removal tool and chances are whenever you did that you actually downloaded the viruses/spyware on your machine. I used one of those and had hundreds of them on my system and had to have the hard drive wiped because it was actually adding to the problem.
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- Was it RegCure? It's annoying, everytime I open my computer a box appears asking me if I'd like a new version of RegCure...."yes or no". I can't even click on the "x" on the top right hand corner to close it, so I have to click "no", then it disappears. Other than that, it doesn't seem to be causing me any problems, and my anti-virus program hasn't isolated or gotten rid of it.
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  by MRSHINYSHOES on October 24th, 2009
- I don't know for sure which one it was but I do remember it wasn't listed in my add/remove programs for me to remove it and it had that little pop up that you have. I have a great virus catcher now (Panda) but I really don't remember the name of it.
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  by therapist on October 24th, 2009
- I have Kaspersky. I wonder if there's a way Kaspersky can get rid of this annoyance?
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by Hypocrisy_Central on November 25th, 2009
Fact from fiction, truth from diction. Those nasty buggers. Ran into stuff like that in the past. Not that specifically, but nasty malwar like that. If you have an OS that lets you go back to a previous restore point it is probably the easiest. You can try the ad/remove utility to see if that will uninstall it. Spybot is good for getting a lot of it also. AVG, even the free version is very good. Or Trend Micro Adware. If you don't mind being hands-on then you can use Zone Alarm to prevent yourself from getting infected in the 1st place, or use Hijackthis to find all the entries, even the registry keys and rid yourself of it that way.
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by boo_hoo on October 31st, 2009
It takes care of your errors but you did not buy the sirvece? You need to un install the program. Start- controll pannel-un install programs- find it and un install it. Google avg it's a free anti virus program down load it and your pc is safe :)
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- Thanks. I went into safe mode and uninstalled it. But I had to repair my anti virus program afterwards.
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  by MRSHINYSHOES on October 31st, 2009
- just because you uninstall something, doesn't mean that it isnt going to leave nasty little files around. always backup your registry before installing a program. if it causes problems, uninstall the program, run a anti malware program like Spybot Search & Destroy, and restore your registry so no trace of the defective program is left behind. try losing a whole operating system by not doing that.
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by bfloyd1984 on October 27th, 2009
i would suggest getting Comodo Internet Security. it has an anti-virus and firewall programs that is easy to configure and is totally free. http://www.comodo.com. and i also suggest that you get spybot search and destroy, it does a better job than what any other malware program can ever do. http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html. it is also free. have fun with the programs.
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by Cat on November 29th, 2009
Here's a good web page with a step-by-step guide to getting rid of malware. Jay recommends several very good tools including Spybot S&D and AVG.

http://www.geekradio.com/got-spyware
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