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Soft Soldier, also known as SoftSoldier, is another fake anti-spyware program designed to scare you into purchasing a full license of the program. Soft Soldier is spread through Trojan viruses and malicious websites that provide free videos. Once installed, this malicious program will generate files in your harddrive. Then, Soft Soldier will automatically start a fake system scan which reports the earlier created files as serious infections. It uses this scare tactic in order to pressure you into purchasing a full version to remove these infections. Do not fall for this scam. Here is a screenshot of the fake scanner:

Soft Soldier Screenshot

Soft Soldier will creat fake alerts and popups. In addition, it will impersonate Windows Security Center and suggest that you purcahse it to keep your computer safe. This malicious program should be removed as soon as possible from your computer by following these removal instructions:
Automatic Soft Soldier removal:

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Manual Soft Soldier removal:

Kill processes: SoftSoldier.exe, uninstall.exe, zwh4.tmp.exe
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Unregister DLLs: bfaz5r891.dll
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Delete registry keys:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SoftSoldier
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SoftSoldier
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\SoftSoldier
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "SoftSoldier"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "zwh4.tmp.exe"
(Learn how to delete registry keys)

Delete files:
C:\Program Files\SoftSoldier Software\SoftSoldier
C:\Program Files\SoftSoldier Software\SoftSoldier\SoftSoldier.exe
C:\Program Files\SoftSoldier Software\SoftSoldier\uninstall.exe
C:\WINDOWS\10158vzrus952.ocx
C:\WINDOWS\1025znot-9-virus53b.cpl
C:\WINDOWS\102909ir5s31z.cpl
C:\WINDOWS\system32\bfaz5r891.dll
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\SoftSoldier.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftSoldier
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftSoldier\1 SoftSoldier.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftSoldier\2 Homepage.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\SoftSoldier\3 Uninstall.lnk
%Temp%\zwh4.tmp.exe
(Learn how to delete files)

Delete folders:
C:\Program Files\SoftSoldier Software

Once you have removed Soft Soldier from your computer using either the automatic or manual method, make sure to block it and other malicious software using a HOSTS file. We recommend downloading the HOSTS file from here, which contains a complete, up-to-date list of malicious websites.


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October 15th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Threats

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