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VirusRay Removal Instructions

Posted: October 22, 2007

Why is it important to remove VirusRay?

VirusRay is an illegal and corrupt anti-spyware program!

VirusRay displays fake warnings that your machine is infected with spyware. If you click VirusRay’s icon or fake alert, you’ll be taken to a site to buy VirusRay, though VirusRay program may actually damage your computer and not protect you against spyware. Usually VirusRay secretly downloads and installs itself onto your computer.

VirusRay is part of a group of rogue anti-spyware applications which falsely report spyware infections, then offer to remove the alleged spyware for a fee. Rogue anti-spyware applications similar to VirusRay include SpywareQuake and VirusRescue.

I have VirusRay, what do I do?

You have many options for detecting and removing VirusRay. The most extreme is reformatting your PC, possibly costing you all of your data and definitely costing hour of time wasted on reloading your PC to its original form. Reformatting your computer should be your last resort. If you’re having problems finding VirusRay, try using a preferred spyware scanner to quickly detect VirusRay first. If you don’t have a spyware scanner, you can always try the instructional methods provided below.

  • Start a full system scan to detect VirusRay & other parasites.
  • SpyHunter will automatically search for VirusRay files.

Please note that SpyHunter’s free scanner is only for detection purposes. If SpyHunter’s scanner finds VirusRay on your PC, you can buy SpyHunter’s full version to remove VirusRay and other spyware.

Are you infected with VirusRay?

Your machine may be infected with VirusRay, if you have the following symptoms:
*Note: Symptoms tend to vary depending on software installed on your system and other system factors.

Symptom #1: A questionable red or green icon appears in your system tray next to the system clock, representing a newly installed program which you do not recall ever downloading. If you click on the icon a fake system alert popup will direct you to VirusRay’s website. In some cases, even when you don’t click on the icon the fake system alert may still pop up.
Symptom #2: The questionable icon pops up a fake system alert that lures you into downloading VirusRay program by stating that your computer is infected with dangerous spyware and that you should download VirusRay program to remove the alleged infection. The false system alert may read:
Warning! Potential spyware operation! Your computer is making unauthorized copies of your system and Internet files. Run full scan now to prevent any unauthorized access to your files! Click here to download spyware remover…
Symptom #3: Once you’re infected, rogue anti-spyware VirusRay will run on every time Windows starts up. A screenshot of VirusRay is provided below.
VirusRay Screenshot

VirusRay Manual Detection

If you’ve discovered that VirusRay has infected your PC, you must act quickly and take the proper steps to eliminating the infection. Note: The manual removal of any parasite is difficult. To avoid the unnecessary risk of damaging your computer, we advise you to download SpyHunter’s spyware scanner tool to automatically detect VirusRay.

To manually remove VirusRay, follow these removal steps:

Step #1: Remove VirusRay with Windows Add/Remove Programs utility.

Sometimes all it takes to get rid of spyware like VirusRay is to remove the program using the Add/Remove Programs control panel in Windows.

  1. In Windows XP Professional, click on Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
  2. In Windows 2000 Professional / Windows ME / Windows 98, click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs.
  3. In the list of programs, search for the software you want to remove. If you see a program you don’t recognize or don’t recall installing, look it up in Google to learn what it is.
  4. Select the questionable program and remove it with the Remove button.

Step #2: Kill VirusRay using the Windows Task Manager

To kill a VirusRay process that has infected your computer, you will need to use the Windows Task Manager to check by process, highlight the process in question, and then end the task. To do this:

  1. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC on the keyboard.
  2. Click on Processes Tab to see all active tasks. For easier detection, left click the process under the heading Image Name.
  3. Find and kill the following VirusRay process:
    VirusRay 3.8.exe
  4. Once you’ve identified the VirusRay process, press DEL on your keyboard or click End Process to kill it from your system.

Step #3: Use PsKill to Kill a Process

Sometimes a parasite can disable your Windows Task Manager so you can use pslist and pskill (a third party application by Mark Russinovich) to list and kill the unwanted processes.

  1. Download PsKill or PsList.
  2. Extract the program from the .Zip archive.
  3. Move pskill.exe to your C: drive.
  4. Open a command window and click Start > Run.
  5. Type cmd and click the OK button.
  6. In the command window, type C:pskill.exe and the name of the process you wish to kill, then press Enter. For example, if you wanted to kill the process for VirusRay, you would type: C:pskill.exe VirusRay.exe.
    If the file was successfully removed, PsKill will say “process VirusRay.exe killed”.
  7. Find and Remove these VirusRay files:
    unpfrwb.dll
    VirusRay 3.8
    vra.dat
    dfrep.dll
    VirusRay 3.8 Website.lnk
    VirusRay 3.8.url
    Uninstall VirusRay 3.8.lnk
    VirusRay 3.8.lnk
    ArrayVirusRay 3.8.exe

    unpfrwb.dll
    Arraydfrep.dll

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