Palladium Pro or Palladium Antivirus is a fake antivirus program. It is actually a malware (Malicious Software). It has been categorized as “Trojan FakeAlert”.

It was first seen on 3rd January 2011.

This virus is normally brought via fake email attachments, malicious downloads or some other forms of Internet-based source and will cause your PC to run much less reliably and really slow. This rogue is normally installed automatically onto your PC, without your knowledge or authorization.

It triggers various problems that include disabling your Task Manager and preventing the loading of your internet browser and other programs.

The idea is to frighten you into thinking your computer is in extreme danger and infected with a lot of viruses. Once you are terrified and convinced, it offers an upgrades of Palladium to its ultimate solution and guarantees to save your PC.

If you go to buy the upgrades you will be feeding your credit card details straight to the hackers. It will try to continuously steal your personal data and many other important system settings you may have on your PC.

1. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to open “Task Manager”.

Note: If you are unable to open the “Task Manager”.

* Reboot your PC Manually.

* Press F8 and select the “Safe Mode”

* Login to you PC

* Do not click on Palladium “Safe Startup”

* Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to open “Task Manager”

2. Click on “Processes” Tab

3. Locate “PalladiumPro.exe”, rigth click and click “End Process”

4. Find and delete the following files,

Palladium.exe

Palladium.lnk

Z.exe

These files can be found on following locations,

%AppData%\

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\

%UserProfile%\Desktop\

%UserProfile%\start menu\Programs\

C:\Program Files\

5. Delete following registry entries,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell (Rogue.Palladium)

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{5E2121EE-0300-11D4-8D3B-444553540000}

How to Remove Palladium Pro Automatically?

1. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to open “Task Manager”.

Note: If you are unable to open the “Task Manager”.

* Reboot your PC Manually.

* Press F8 and select the “Safe Mode with Networking”

* Login to you PC

* Do not click on Palladium “Safe Startup”

* Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to open “Task Manager”

2. Click on “Processes” Tab

3. Locate “PalladiumPro.exe”, rigth click and click “End Process”

4. Open Internet Browser and download MalwareByte from

5. Install, Update and Run Scan.

It will find all the Palladium files and registry keys and will remove to save your PC.