What is Shield Antivirus?

Shield Antivirus is software application developed by ShieldApps. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 66.67% of installations running this operating system. Shield Antivirus's installer is typically 259.00 MB in size and installs around 63 files. The most common release is 2.1.7 with 50.00% of all installations currently using this version.

Shield Antivirus is most popular in the United States with 75.00% of installations residing in this country.

Shield Antivirus adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Shield Antivirus?

Shield AntiVirus is a customized antivirus solution utilizing the VIPRE/ThreatTrack Security core engine. It is designed to deliver a user-friendly interface and streamlined distribution for the product.

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:

ShieldAntivirus.exe is scheduled as a task named 'ShieldAntivirusScan2' (runs weekly on Fridays at 02:00).
InstCtrl.exe is scheduled as a task named 'ShieldAntivirus_Master'.
Toaster.exe is scheduled as a task named 'ShieldAntivirus_Popup' (runs daily at 3:00 PM).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

ShieldAntivirus.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'ShieldAntivirus' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Shield Antivirus\ShieldAntivirus.exe" /minimize.

Software Details

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Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Shield Antivirus\

Uninstaller:

msiexec.exe /x {4B1BC3D3-4C1B-4CFA-836A-60F61D7860F8}

Size:

259.00 MB

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