[Efficient Removal] How to Uninstall Win 8 Protection 2014?

Brief Introduction to Win 8 Protection 2014

Win 8 Protection 2014 is categorized as rogue antivirus program which makes money by reporting fake scan results to its users. It masquerades itself as a legitimate and useful antivirus program and looks no different from other famous legitimate antivirus programs. However, in fact it is illegitimate and will cause many troubles.

As soon as it makes its installation in your computer, it is able to detect all the files, data, programs and even loopholes in your computer. It won’t give you the right detected reports but will ask you to purchase its registered version to fix the problems. If you pay the money and remove those detected threats, you may delete some important system files or program files. Thus your computer will be messed up, and some programs cannot operate properly. Furthermore, this rogueware will make full use of those loophole in your computer to download more malware, spyware, ransomware, Trojan horses, worms and other viruses to your computer so that you will pay much more money to it for saving your computer. Besides, its running process will take up the system resources. Thus your computer will result in poor performance such as slow computer operating speed, frequently getting the blue or black screen of death, and even suddenly crashing down.

In summary, this Win 8 Protection 2014 is such a malicious rogue antivirus program that needs to be uninstalled as soon as possible.

Efficient Removal for Win 8 Protection 2014

a. Manual Removal Support:

Step 1: End Win 8 Protection 2014 running process in Windows Task Manager. 

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or press the Start button, type "Run" to select the option, then type "taskmgr" and press OK > stop Win 8 Protection 2014 running process.

Step 2: Uninstall Win 8 Protection 2014 through Control Panel.

Click Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program > find Win 8 Protection 2014 > right click on it > Uninstall.

Step 3: Delete associated files:

%UserProfile%\Programs\AppData\[Win 8 Protection 2014].exe
%UserProfile%\Programs\Temp\[Win 8 Protection 2014].dll
%UserProfile%\Programs\AppData\roaming\[Win 8 Protection 2014].dll

Step 4: Delete associated registry entries:

Hit Win+R keys and then type "regedit" in Run box and click on OK to open Registry Editor.

When the Registry Editor shows, find out and delete the below files.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run""= "%AppData%\.exe"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run""= "%AppData%\.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes"="Win 8 Protection 2014"

Step 5: Restart your computer to take effect.

Note: When you apply this manual removal guide, any mistakes would delete the important system file. Therefore, you need to backup the system files before using this method and be extremely careful in each step. 

b. Automatic Removal Support:

Step 1: Install SpyHunter.

1) Download SpyHunter here, then double click on it to install SpyHunter.

2) During the installation, select a suitable language and click OK.

3) In the License Agreement page, select the first one and move to the next step.

4) The SpyHunter will automatically update and finish installation.

5) Click the Finish button to exist the installation.

Step 2: Remove Win 8 Protection 2014 with SpyHunter.

1) Open SpyHunter and click Scan Computer Now! button to start a scan on your computer.

2) SpyHunter will now start scanning your computer as shown below.

3) When the scan is completed, you can see that not only Win 8 Protection 2014 but also other threats can be absolutely detected. Then click Fix Threats button to make your computer clean.

Note: It is recommended to apply the later solution to uninstall Win 8 Protection 2014 with SpyHunter. The scan will detect and remove this rogueware from your computer so that it no longer starts when you login to Windows.