XP Service Centre Removal Guide

XP Service Centre is a fake antivirus program. XP Service Centre install to the computer through trojan which opens a backdoor on the computer. There are many computers which has been infected by trojans (they are not detected by antivirus). Such trojans make this fake antivirus install to the computer without any confirmation of the users. XP Service Centre start automatically when the computer boot. The main purpose of XP Service Centre is to cheat money from the users by producing fake scan result to scare the users to buy the full version of XP Service Centre. It is important to get rid of this virus as soon as possible to avoid loss of data and corruption of files on the computer.

XP Service Centre can be removed by using Emsisoft HiJackFree to stop the processes and kill the files from the hard drive. Then, the user has to restore the registry entries added and modified by XP Service Centre. Finally, all the file related to XP Service Centre must be deleted from the hard drive. All of them has been shown in the removal guide below.

XP Service Centreshould be removed immediately.

Removal Tool: Remove Fake Antivirus. (Download it here.)

XP Service Centre Removal Guide
Kill Process
(How to kill a process effectively?)
[random].exe

Delete Registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random]"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random]"

Remove Folders and Files
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Desktop\XP Service Centre.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\[User Name]\Start Menu\Programs\XP Service Centre
remove the file stated in the autorun settings.