{"id":2583,"date":"2012-07-22T20:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T03:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2012-11-04T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T18:14:15","slug":"security-shield-2012-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"Security Shield 2012 Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife&#8217;s computer was infected with Security Shield Malware Virus, that kept complaining that her computer was infected with 22 viruses. Of course, it&#8217;s a ploy to get you to buy the software to remove them when itself is the virus\/malware. I guess it&#8217;s a way to con the naive to cough money to them. <\/p>\n<p>Like every computer professional households, the spouse (I) with a better computer knowledge ended up become the IT support person. So I googled around and found the following <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.malwarebytes.org\/index.php?showtopic=107641\" title=\"Removal instructions for Security Shield 2012\">website<\/a> that has the fix using Malwarebyte. I tried that but it didn&#8217;t work because the Security Shield prevented the network access to update the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. <\/p>\n<p>It turned out that one must put in the computer in the &#8220;Safe Mode with Networking&#8221; by keying F8 before Windows boots up. Then the directions in the website worked beautifully for me. My wife is happy now, therefore I am too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife&#8217;s computer was infected with Security Shield Malware Virus, that kept complaining that her computer was infected with 22 viruses. Of course, it&#8217;s a ploy to get you to buy the software to remove them when itself is the virus\/malware. I guess it&#8217;s a way to con the naive to cough money to them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=2583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Security Shield 2012 Removal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-for-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}