User Protection is a fake anti-spyware program related to the Paladin Antivirus family. It is promoted by malicious websites masquerading as malware scanner sites. Once you visit these websites, this fake program is downloaded and installed onto your computer without your knowledge. Once this rogue is installed, it will automatically perform a system scan whenever Windows is rebooted. The fake scan will display a fake infection report. The purpose of the report is to trick you into purchasing a full version of this rogue to remove these fake infections.

Besides the fake scan and report, this rogue program will also bombard you with an array of popup warnings. These messages appear to be official Windows warnings, but are just another scare tactic performed by User Protection. For example, a fake warning popup is:

ANTIVIRUS IS RUN IN DEMO MODE. ACTIVATE YOUR ANTIVIRUS OTHERWISE ALL THE DATA WILL BE LOST OR DAMAGED!

One should ignore all these popups and the fake infection report. Although the scan, report, and messages generated by User Protection are fake it does pose a real threat since it will attempt to uninstall your antivirus program. Here is a list of antivirus programs that this rogue will attempt to uninstall:

Agnitum Outpost Security Suite

AntiVir

avast!

AVG

Avira AntiVir

F-Secure

Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware

NOD32

Norton Internet Security

Removing User Protection off your computer should be a top priority. There are two methods for removing this rogue. Manual removal involves stopping the uninstall.exe and usrprot.exe processes, unregistering usrext.dll and usrhook.dll, removing the associated registry keys and files of User Protection. As a result, manual removal is only recommended for computer users familiar with Windows registry editor. A quicker and safer removal method is the automatic removal method. With automatic removal, you just need to download and install a spyware remover program. The spyware remover program will scan your PC and remove User Protection with your permission.

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