Windows Police Pro / WindowsPolicePro Virus Removal Guide

Windows Police Pro is a rogue security application, also known as a fake antivirus program. Windows Police Pro is one of many different fake antivirus programs on the web and is a clone of Windows Antivirus Pro. Windows Police Pro hopes to trick the user into thinking that it is a real program. The program hopes to scare the user into purchasing the program by displaying fake virus scan results. The program is fake and doesn’t work.

Windows Police Pro will tell the user that their computer is infected and will use tactics to convince the user to purchase it. However, the program itself doesn’t work to remove viruses. The program generally comes with a fake windows security center, a svchost.exe error message, a halflemon warning message, and many more error messages. Each one is used to scare the user into purchasing Windows Police Pro.

Windows Police Pro may stop antivirus programs from running. Windows Police Pro may also cause the computer to not be able to connect to the internet. It is important to check your internet settings to make sure Windows Police Pro hasn’t changed them. Windows Police Pro may also cause pop ups from specific malware websites.

Overall, Windows Police Pro is fake and is a scam. Windows Police Pro should be removed. Below is a screenshot of the scam:

windowspolicepro

Virus Type: Rogue Security Application
Threat Level: 8 / 10

Below is our recommended removal tool for Windows Police Pro. The removal tool has been rated 5 cows out of 5 by Tucows and was previously CNET’s Editor’s Choice. Feel free to download it below.

If you are unable to run the removal tool, or are unable to run any programs in general, you may need to stop the processes associated with Windows Police Pro with task manager. If task manager has been blocked by Windows Police Pro, try using Process Explorer.

Manual Windows Police Pro Removal - In order to manually remove Windows Police Pro, the processes associated with Windows Police Pro must be stopped, the files associated with the processes must be removed, and the registry entries must be corrected to the previous state before Windows Police Pro entered the computer.

Stop Windows Police Pro Processes (Learn How To Do This)
Windows Police Pro.exe
svchast.exe
desote.exe
dbsinit.exe

Remove Windows Police Pro Files (Learn How To Do This)
C:\Program Files\Windows Police Pro\
C:\Program Files\Windows Police Pro\Windows Police Pro.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Police Pro\tmp\dbsinit.exe
C:\WINDOWS\svchast.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\desote.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dddesot.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\minix32.exe
C:\Program Files\Windows Police Pro\ANTI_files.exe

Remove Windows Police Pro Registry Keys (Learn How To Do This)
 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windows Police Pro
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Windows Police Pro

Remove Windows Police Pro Startup Entry (Learn How To Do This)
Windows Police Pro.exe
svchast.exe
desote.exe
dbsinit.exe

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6 Responses to “Windows Police Pro / WindowsPolicePro Virus Removal Guide”

Randy September 1st, 2023 at 5:59 am

Unable to find any of the above listed processes running. Is svchasts.exe the same as svchast.exe?

Kenzo September 1st, 2023 at 10:17 pm

I just encountered this problem by downloading a program I probably shouldnt have. I first used etrust pestpatrol 5 to find Windows Police and remove it. It took several tries before it stopped showing up.
Next, I noticed that every program I tried to open would give 3 error messages. I rebooted into safe mode and went into C:\WINDOWS and removed every file that was created recently INCLUDING one called desote.exe . I did the same for C:\WINDOWS\TEMP and Program files.
Finally, I went into Regedit (it allowed me to get in…maybe its cuz I deleted desote.exe in safe mode) and saw that in HKLM/Software/classes/exefile, the Default value had desote.exe”%1″%* instead of only “%1″%*. I renamed it appropriately, and voila. Doesn’t look like the problem is still here.

Judith Ann Ripon September 1st, 2023 at 10:17 pm

suddenly we got virus in our computer and it’s show that i have a problem with Windows Police Pro, i buy that antivirus that problem will remove, then i did payed $ 52.95. but it’s not working any yet. On my desktop i just can open my Computer folder, other then i can’t open any folder like internet explore, winamp, jet audio, games etc. Now pls help me what can we do now?

Dirk Verhoest - Age 19 - Oregon State University Woot Woot! September 2nd, 2023 at 11:57 am

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Unfortunately my last restore point was after I got the virus…

Anyways for those of you in the same boat as me, I’m going to try this idea more manual approach that just kind of came to me.

The original poster listed all the files associated with this virus. I’m doing an advanced search for each of those files on my system. With the advanced search make sure you have the box checked to include hidden and system files. I’ve found most of them and I’m deleting them. Some of them don’t allow you to delete them, but I can effectively disable them by renaming them with a nonexistent file extension.

To do this you need to make sure you can see the file extensions on the files on your computer. You can do this in under Control Panel > Folder options (just search folder option in the search bar once you open control panel). The nice thing about this, is you don’t have to open any exe’s with this approach. That’s the virus’ main weapon. We can hopefully fight it with this approach…moving on though…

So an example of what I’m doing is searching for a file like WindowsPolice.exe and changing it to WindowsPolice.asdfjasiodfj. This way whatever program is executing this file on startup won’t recognize the file and the virus will fail to initialize.

After you have done this, restart your machine and then do the search over again, but this time delete the files. They won’t be running and you’ll be able to delete them instead of getting the error message that doesn’t allow you to delete them. I hope this helps.

Here are all the files I had to delete or change extension names for:

Window Police Pro Shortcut (deleted)
Windows Police Pro.exe (extension changed)
dddesot.dll (deleted)
desote.exe (extension changed)
svchasts.exe (extension changed)
msvcm80.dll (there A LOT of these I didn’t touch them)
Windows Police Pro Folders (deleted after reboot)

BTW I’m typing this as I’m doing it… rebooting my computer now to see if it worked! (I’m on a second laptop of mine typing this out)

Ok so the virus still started up on reboot but I’m able to delete the files that I changed the extension for. I’m deleting those files. Ok after doing another search for all the I was able to delete every single one. I did not change any of the extension on the msvcm80.dll files or delete any. I’m not 100% sure they are associated with the virus.

AWESOME-NESS! After deleting those files I am now able to run exe’s! I haven’t rebooted yet. I’m going to to download a program called STOPzilla (recommended by VirusRemovalGuru.com for this virus). Once I install and run that program the virus will be off my computer. IF ANYONE FOLLOWS THESE DIRECTION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO BEAT THIS VIRUS! Feel free to send me questions at [email protected] Cookies milk will be widely excepted ^_^

I’ve posted this guide at this URL as well. Its a little bit more coherent lol

https://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=414314

Keri Riley September 15th, 2023 at 10:02 pm

I foolishly bought windows police pro. Is there any way to get my $$ back?

Keri Riley

jamie September 16th, 2023 at 6:13 am

My roomates computer has been attacked by Windows Police Pro and she cannot access the internet to download anything to terminate it and she is also unable to open task manager and nothing in her control panel will come up!!!! Please help us ASAP!!!!! Thanks

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