This is something a person on a different site did:
Step 1: Open up “My Computer” and Open up the “C” drive
Step 2: Open up the folder “Windows”
Step 3: Open up the folder “System 32″
Step 4: Scroll down to the file all the way on the bottom named “taskmgr”, simply right click and rename this file “iexplore” {{Notes i had a lot of trouble getting the process to scroll to that program as it kept freezing up–PERSERVERE! What I learned is that after about 30 minutes the whole darn rogue thing will basically get postal, larger and shut down the whole computer so you have to work fast. Also the Process Explorer- that downloads from sysinterals. www. sysinterntals.com is a really good idea- if you can trick into opening by catching it just as you boot up it will open a screen and after a minute or so you can delete that one number string which will TADA make it so you can launch some programs. I noticed internet explorer can open vs foxfire which can’t
and bam, open this baby up by double clicking it and your task manager will open up, and find the process that total security is running, its usually a number like 34854385.exe or something like that,{{{{NOTE AGAIN- it was actually a program name that included the word Security, and there were two of them, I shut them both down and was able to launch Spybot, AND update it.
WHEW this rogue is just TERRIBLE! this took me- seriously– 8 plus hours of learning and just kicking the cr*p out of it, restarting a million times and catching that Process Screen icon- once it actually deleted it but i found it in the trash and made it work again. just click that number and close it down. After that I’ve run Hijackthis {{Make sure you’ve got an updated kick butt program. The XoftSpySE will ask for payment once its captured. I already owned spybot . THANK YOU Anigma for the final key to the removal– getting task manager up and running by renaming it!
Remove Total Security 2009, TotalSecurity 2009 removal