Spyware Soft Stop Removal Instructions

Why is it important to remove Spyware Soft Stop?

Spyware Soft Stop is an illegal and corrupt anti-spyware program!

Spyware Soft Stop may look like a legitimate anti-spyware, but it’s created only to scare you into purchasing Spyware Soft Stop. Spyware Soft Stop may scare you into buying it by overwhelming you with fake alerts or pop-ups. Spyware Soft Stop can’t prevent your computer from being infected with spyware — Spyware Soft Stop may actually damage your system.

I have Spyware Soft Stop, what do I do?

You have many options for detecting and removing Spyware Soft Stop. The most extreme is reformatting your PC, possibly costing you all of your data and definitely costing hour of time wasted on reloading your PC to its original form. Reformatting your computer should be your last resort. If you’re having problems finding Spyware Soft Stop, try using a preferred spyware scanner to quickly detect Spyware Soft Stop first. If you don’t have a spyware scanner, you can always try the instructional methods provided below.

• Start a full system scan to detect Spyware Soft Stop & other parasites.
• SpyHunter will automatically search for Spyware Soft Stop files.

Please note that SpyHunter’s free scanner is only for detection purposes. If SpyHunter’s scanner finds Spyware Soft Stop on your PC, you can buy SpyHunter’s full version to remove Spyware Soft Stop and other spyware.

Are you infected with Spyware Soft Stop?

Your machine may be infected with Spyware Soft Stop, if you have the following symptoms:
*Note: Symptoms tend to vary depending on software installed on your system and other system factors.

Symptom #1: A questionable red or green icon appears in your system tray next to the system clock, representing a newly installed program which you do not recall ever downloading. If you click on the icon a fake system alert popup will direct you to Spyware Soft Stop’s website. In some cases, even when you don’t click on the icon the fake system alert may still pop up.

Symptom #2: The questionable icon pops up a fake system alert that lures you into downloading Spyware Soft Stop program by stating that your computer is infected with dangerous spyware and that you should download Spyware Soft Stop program to remove the alleged infection. The false system alert may read:

Warning! Potential spyware operation! Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files. Run full scan now to prevent any unauthorized access to your files! Click here to download spyware remover…

Symptom #3: Once you’re infected, rogue anti-spyware Spyware Soft Stop will run on every time Windows starts up. A screenshot of Spyware Soft Stop is provided below.

Spyware Soft Stop Manual Detection

If you’ve discovered that Spyware Soft Stop has infected your PC, you must act quickly and take the proper steps to eliminating the infection. Note: The manual removal of any parasite is difficult. To avoid the unnecessary risk of damaging your computer, we advise you to download SpyHunter’s spyware scanner tool to automatically detect Spyware Soft Stop.

To manually remove Spyware Soft Stop, follow these removal steps:

Step #1: Remove Spyware Soft Stop with Windows Add/Remove Programs utility.

Sometimes all it takes to get rid of spyware like Spyware Soft Stop is to remove the program using the Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows.

1. In Windows XP Professional, click on Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
2. In Windows 2000 Professional / Windows ME / Windows 98, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
3. In the list of programs, search for the software you want to remove. If you see a program you don’t recognize or don’t recall installing, look it up in Google to learn what it is.
4. Select the questionable program and remove it with the Remove button.

Step #2: Kill Spyware Soft Stop using the Windows Task Manager

To kill a Spyware Soft Stop process that has infected your computer, you will need to use the Windows Task Manager to check by process, highlight the process in question, and then end the task. To do this:

1. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC on the keyboard.
2. Click on Processes Tab to see all active tasks. For easier detection, left click the process under the heading Image Name.
3. Find and kill the following Spyware Soft Stop process:
   sss_bot.exe
   unins000.exe
   install.exe
   pinch.exe
   spyware soft stop.exe
4. Once you’ve identified the Spyware Soft Stop process, press DEL on your keyboard or click End Process to kill it from your system.

Step #3: Use PsKill to Kill a Process

Sometimes a parasite can disable your Windows Task Manager so you can use pslist and pskill (a third party application by Mark Russinovich) to list and kill the unwanted processes.

1. Download PsKill or PsList.
2. Extract the program from the .Zip archive.
3. Move pskill.exe to your C: drive.
4. Open a command window and click Start > Run.
5. Type cmd and click the OK button.
6. In the command window, type C:pskill.exe and the name of the process you wish to kill, then press Enter. For example, if you wanted to kill the process for Spyware Soft Stop, you would type: C:pskill.exe Spyware Soft Stop.exe.
   If the file was successfully removed, PsKill will say “process Spyware Soft Stop.exe killed”.
7. Find and Remove these Spyware Soft Stop files:
   unins000.dat
   sss_main.inie
   mydriver64.sys
   qscem.vob
   base.004
   base.003
   base.002
   base.001
   spywaresoftstop.url
   spywaresoftstop.lnk
   spywaresoftstopontheweb.lnk
   gpkcsp.dll
   logon032.dll
   notifysb.dll
   httpapi.dll
   htui.dll
   sss_bot.exe
   unins000.exe
   install.exe
   pinch.exe
   Arrayspyware soft stop.exe

   gpkcsp.dll
   logon032.dll
   notifysb.dll
   httpapi.dll
   Arrayhtui.dll