How to remove Windows Maintenance Guard

How to remove Windows Maintenance Guard

Someone I know recently called me with Windows Maintenance Guard locking down their computer. It's more a less a super annoying virus that attempts coerce you into buying their software to protect your PC.

Basically Windows Maintenance Guard will run on screen if you try to launch Internet Explorer, Task Manager, Regedit, etc. I didn't try command prompt, but I'm sure it would too.

Basically I had the computer reboot into Safe Mode with Networking, from there I was able to connect to, http://join.me/, using Internet Explorer, but I had to run it by searching for "iexplore" in the Start Menu. From there I was able to remote into the PC. Then I had to upload RKill to my Dropbox Public folder. From there I could download and run RKill. I attempted to download RKill directly from http://bleepingcomputer.com/download/rkill/, but Windows Maintenance Guard immediately kills Internet Explorer at that point. So, that's why I used Dropbox to download and run RKill.

RKill successfully killed the virus that was running which then let me go download MalwareBytes and start it running. I haven't finished this virus removal yet, but from what I've read, MalwareBytes should take care of the rest.

:(

Call of Duty 3 for $30 @Kohls

Really Kohl's, do you think people are going to pay $30 for the worst game in the series, and it over 5 years old? All of the other games were only $27.

Not likely. I just bought Halo Anniversary for $20 new, and it's less than a year old. Honestly I don't know how the reviews went, but it's worth it purely for nostalgia's sake.

Oh yeah, I had nothing else to do while we were in Kohl's yesterday.

Thinking about trying to talk my boss at work into buying the $55 helicopter!

Trying to post regular blogs again.

Wow, another six months has passed since I lasted posted here. Obviously I hardly ever post anything important, but I'd like to make this a more regular occurrence.

Here's a list of todo items I created several months ago too. Let's see how many of these items I can actually complete.

Todo List

Automated song downloads
Xbox - XBMC, Aeon, media art
PS2 - DDR, HDD and custom songs
Wii - Games on HDD and emulators
Xbox 360 - repair and mod

Items to sell
- MacBook
- laptops
- Palms
- iPods