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AcidShivers.
Below are step by step instructions to remove AcidShivers from your computer.
Note: This process is difficult and is not recommend unless you are an expert in this field. The manual process is also dangerous as the removal process requires you to access and edit sensitive files in the registry of your machine and run the risk of totally destroying your computer.

An important point to remember when removing AcidShivers is to delete all parts of the AcidShivers code. This is a must as AcidShivers will rebuild itself and will result in further spreading of the spyware parasite.

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AcidShivers Description
Acid Shivers is a Trojan that allows partial remote control of your computer to an unauthorized user. Through Acid Shivers, the user may view the content of your directories, create new directories, delete directories and their content, delete and retrieve specific files, rename your computer, view statistics about your Internet connection and your system, execute other commands, and more.

AcidShivers Removal Instructions

Before you can delete files, you must first stop all the AcidShivers processes that are running in memory.
Do this by ending all processes from the Task Manager.
Press CtrL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager. If you see multiple
"tabs," click on the "Processes" tab. For each process that you would like
to kill, find the process name in the list, click it to select it, and click
the "End Process" button.



Delete registry values Instructions:
Open the Windows Registry Editor by clicking on the Windows "Start" button,
clicking "Run," and typing "regedit" into the box in the Window that appears. Click "OK".
Once the Registry Editor is open, navigate through the registry tree to the
location of the key that you wish to delete. When you find the key or
value to be deleted, click on it to highlight it and press the "DELETE" key.

Delete Registry Values:
SOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunServicesWINTOUR.EXE


Unregister DLL Instructions:
To un-register a DLL file, first locate the file on your hard drive.
Open a command prompt window by clicking on the Windows "Start" button,
clicking "Run," and typing "cmd" into the box in the Window that appears. Click "OK."
Next type "regsvr32 /u " and press the "ENTER" key.
For example, to un-register a file called "myDll.dll" which is located in
the "C:\windows\system32" folder, your would type
"regsvr32 /u C:\windows\system32\myDll.dll" and press the "ENTER" key.



Delete File Entries:
msgsvr16.exe
wintour.exe


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