Get Rid of Registry Dr. Virus Quickly

Basic information about Registry Dr. 

Registry Dr.  is a computer virus that installs into your PC without your knowledge and performs Registry scans all the time.

You should never believe it. Registry Dr. belongs to the fake antivirus family which may add many malicious entries to your Registry once successfully installed into the target computer. It also puts its files into the startup menu, thus it launch automatically when computer users turn on the infected PC. Then Registry Dr. Virus carries out a lot of so-called system scans without users’ full consent and displays a list of security alerts, claiming that there are tons of errors, threats and viruses on your computer. And then prompts computer users to purchase its full version to erase all the threats.

At the same time, the PC performance declines gradually. You should never think that the poor performance is caused by the viruses displayed by Registry Dr. In fact, the poor performance is caused to the Registry Dr. Virus as it runs in the background to eat up a lot of computer resources and take up a high CPU usage.

Follow the video and manual removal guide as below to get rid of Registry Dr. Virus as soon as possible

Screenshot of Registry Dr. Virus:

Manual remove Registry Dr. Virus guide:

Step 1: Launch your PC into Safe Mode with Networking.

 Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap "F8" key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then press ENTER.

Step 2: Stop all processes that related to this computer virus

Press Window+R keys together. In the dialogue box that pop-up, type into taskmgr and press OK.  

Terminate all the malicious processes in the Window Task Manager.

Step3:Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by infections.

click start menu; type msconfig in the search bar; open System Configuration Utility; Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step4:Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files about this virus

Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.

In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

Clean all the malicious files about this computer virus as below.

%AppData%\<random>.exe

%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe

%temp%\<random>.exe

C:\Program Files\<random>

C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe

Step5:Remove all the vicious registry entries as follows:

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together and typing into Regedit, then pressing Enter.

Find out all harmful registry entries of the virus and delete all of them.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%AppData%\<random>.exe"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation"=1

Video on how to remove fake antivirus software:

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove Registry Dr. with Spyhunter antivirus software:

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and uninstall Registry Dr.

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of Registry Dr., you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing Registry Dr. and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove Registry Dr. automatically for you.