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Windows Home Patron is a computer infection from the Rogue.FakeVimes family of rogue anti-spyware programs. This family of infections are spread by three methods. The first method is hacked web sites that have malicious code inserted on them to infect users who visit them. The second method is through Trojans that pretend to be software required to view an online video. The last method is advertisements that pretend to be online anti-malware scanners that state you are infected and then prompt you to download and install the program.

When installed, Windows Home Patron will be configured to start automatically when you login to Windows. It will also create numerous entries in the Windows Registry that make it so you are unable to launch many of your legitimate security or Windows programs. It does this in order to protect itself from being removed by one of these programs.

Once started, the program will perform a fake scan of your computer and state that there are numerous infections present. If you attempt to remove any of these infections, though, the program will state that you first need to purchase it before it will allow you to do so. As these threats are either non-existent or harmless files, please ignore any of the scan results and instead remove this rogue via the guide below.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-windows-home-patron