BraveSentry is a rogue anti spyware program that is known to issue fake warnings on your computer in order to manipulate you into buying its full commercial version.
You may want to print out or make a copy of these instructions before starting, because you will not be able to connect to the internet during most of this fix.
Go to Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and remove the following program, if found: BraveSentry.
Download smitRem and save the file to your desktop.
Double click on the file to extract it to it’s own folder on the desktop
Download HijackThis and save the file to your desktop.
Double click on the file to extract it to it’s own folder on the desktop
Next, Download, install, and update the free version of Ewido security suite:
1. When installing, under “Additional Options” uncheck “Install background guard” and “Install scan via context menu”.
2. Run Ewido.
3. From the main ewido screen, click on update in the left menu, then click the Start update button.
4. After the update finishes (the status bar at the bottom will display “Update successful”)
5. Exit Ewido. DO NOT scan yet.
If you do not already have Ad-Aware SE installed, follow these download and setup instructions. Also check for updates.
Reboot your computer in Safe Mode by doing the following:
1. Restart your computer
2. After hearing your computer beep once during startup, but before the Windows icon appears, press F8.
3. Instead of Windows loading as normal, a menu should appear
4. Select the first option, to run Windows in Safe Mode.
Open the smitRem folder, then double click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool. Follow the prompts on screen.
Wait for the tool to complete and disk cleanup to finish.
The tool will create a log named smitfiles.txt in the root of your drive, eg; Local Disk C: or partition where your operating system is installed. (where your WINDOWS catalog)
Now you need to run HijackThis and click “Do a system scan only.” Place a check next to the following entries (if they are still there):
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [KernelFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k
O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [System] C:\WINDOWS\System32\kernels8.exe
O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [Windows update loader] C:\Windows\xpupdate.exe
Now close all browser and other windows except for HijackThis, and click “Fix Checked” to have HijackThis fix the entries you checked.
Open the smitRem folder, then double click the RunThis.bat file to start the tool. Follow the prompts on screen. Your desktop and icons will disappear and then reappear again — this is normal.
Wait for the tool to complete and Disk Cleanup to finish — this may take a while; please be patient.
Next, run Ad-aware and perform a full scan. Remove everything found.
Using Windows Explorer, locate and delete the following file(catalog):
C:\Program Files\Bravesentry
Next go to Start -> Control Panel, click Display -> Desktop -> Customize Desktop -> Web -> Uncheck “Security Info” if present (maybe another name).
Finally, restart your computer.
Post to the Spyware Removal Forum, if any problems persist
