(Solved!) Here is how to remove "DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS" virus manually: Step by step "DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS" Removal Guide

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What is DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS?

DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS is reported and classified as malicious program (malware).
DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS actively resists detection and employs a number of techniques to ensure that you cannot remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS from infected computers.

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How DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS got on your computer?

Phishing is the most common way for malware to infect computers.
It could be a fake email message that appears to be originated from Microsoft Customer Service, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, or even your bank or insurance company.
Fake emails that appear to come from the police, the FBI and other government entities were also reported.

DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS could also infect your computer by exploiting a security vulnerability of your Web browser or one of its plugins.
If this is the case, DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS would be injected into a Web page, and could get to your PC when you visited a malicious or hacked Web site.

DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS can be distributed with legitimate software that is repackaged by the scammers.
It could be downloaded from warez Web sites or download archives.

How do you know you have DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS on my computer?

DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS works in background. It does not appear as a window, does not have a shortcut.
DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS hides its existence from your eyes.

You have 2 ways to remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS:

You have 2 ways

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

You know only one virus name: "DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
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Here’s how to remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS virus automatically:

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STEP 3: Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS virus (3 minutes)

So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn't it?
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How to remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS

You can see DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

check installed programs to uninstall

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS from scheduled task list.

Delete any task related to DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS.

STEP 7: Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS from Google Chrome.

STEP 8: Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove DEVICECONFIGMANAGER.VBS from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.

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