“Protect Your Visa Card” Email Threat Level:

“Protect Your Visa Card” Email is a classic phishing email. “Protect Your Visa Card” Email tells you to protect your Visa card with a new password, and links to a scam webpage that tries to trick you into giving con artists your Visa login info.

If you accidentally log into the site “Protect Your Visa Card” Email links to, you’ll give con artists access to your bank account and a chance to steal your personal identity. If you’ve logged into any sites that “Protect Your Visa Card” Email links to, alert your bank and credit card companies. You might need to close your accounts.

Whenever you see an email like “Protect Your Visa Card” Email, never click any links. If you’re concerned the email might be real, type your bank’s website address into a fresh browser window, and login from there.

Let me show you how to block “Protect Your Visa Card” Email.

Do You Have “Protect Your Visa Card” Email?

When you’re infected with badware — whether it’s “Protect Your Visa Card” Email, spyware, adware, a Trojan, or a virus — there are a few key symptoms. Have you noticed…

• Slow computer performance: It just takes one parasite like “Protect Your Visa Card” Email to slow your computer dramatically. If your PC takes longer than usual to reboot, or if your Internet connection is unusually slow, you may be infected with “Protect Your Visa Card” Email.
• New desktop shortcuts or switched homepage: Badware like “Protect Your Visa Card” Email may change your Internet settings to redirect your homepage to another site. Badware can even add desktop shortcuts to your PC.
• Annoying popups: Badware can bombard your computer with popup ads, even when you’re not online. Through these popups, you may be tricked into downloading more spyware.

How to Remove “Protect Your Visa Card” Email Manually

Before we get started, you should backup your system and your registry, so it’ll be easy to restore your computer if anything goes wrong.

To remove “Protect Your Visa Card” Email manually, you need to delete “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files. Not sure how to delete “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files? Click here, and I’ll show you. Otherwise, go ahead and…

Block “Protect Your Visa Card” Email sites:

“Protect Your Visa Card” Email email reads:

From: CardBlocked@securesuite.net
Subject: Protect your Visa card online with a personal password

Protect your Visa card online with a personal password
Solution

Create an additional password to protect your existing card for online purchases

We are proud to announce that Visa Europe in association with all European and U.S. banks launch a new campaign against online fraud and reward all participants with a 50,00 Euro bonus just for enroll and secure your card. Your personal bonus code is VISA-884AM-4423-2008 ( after you use the code please delete the email or keep it private, conform our privacy and policy you cannot use your code twice, for more info please visit our Privacy and Policy )

Please enroll now by clinking the Global Visa Site select your country and follow the easy steps for a better security on your card.

Global Visa Sites
Do not be the next victim and fight with us against credit card fraud.

Note: In any “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files I mention above, “%UserProfile%” is a variable referring to your current user’s profile folder. If you’re using Windows NT/2000/XP, by default this is “C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER]” (e.g., “C:\Documents and Settings\JoeSmith”). If you have any questions about manual “Protect Your Visa Card” Email removal, go ahead and leave a comment.

How Do You Remove “Protect Your Visa Card” Email Files?

Need help figuring out how to delete “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files? While there’s some risk involved, and you should only manually remove “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files if you’re comfortable editing your system, you’ll find it’s fairly easy to delete “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files in Windows.

How to delete “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files in Windows XP and Vista:

1. Click your Windows Start menu, and then click “Search.”
2. A speech bubble will pop up asking you, “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders.”
3. Type a “Protect Your Visa Card” Email file in the search box, and select “Local Hard Drives.”
4. Click “Search.” Once the file is found, delete it.

How to stop “Protect Your Visa Card” Email processes:

1. Click the Start menu, select Run.
2. Type taskmgr.exe into the the Run command box, and click “OK.” You can also launch the Task Manager by pressing keys CTRL + Shift + ESC.
3. Click Processes tab, and find “Protect Your Visa Card” Email processes.
4. Once you’ve found the “Protect Your Visa Card” Email processes, right-click them and select “End Process” to kill “Protect Your Visa Card” Email.

How to remove “Protect Your Visa Card” Email registry keys:

Because your registry is such a key piece of your Windows system, you should always backup your registry before you edit it. Editing your registry can be intimidating if you’re not a computer expert, and when you change or a delete a critical registry key or value, there’s a chance you may need to reinstall your entire system. Make sure your backup your registry before editing it.

1. Select your Windows menu “Start,” and click “Run.” An “Open” field will appear. Type “regedit” and click “OK” to open up your Registry Editor.
2. Registry Editor will open as a window with two panes. The left side Registry Editor’s window lets you select various registry keys, and the right side displays the registry values of the registry key you select.
3. To find a registry key, such as any “Protect Your Visa Card” Email registry keys, select “Edit,” then select “Find,” and in the search bar type any of “Protect Your Visa Card” Email’s registry keys.
4. As soon as “Protect Your Visa Card” Email registry key appears, you can delete the “Protect Your Visa Card” Email registry key by right-clicking it and selecting “Modify,” then clicking “Delete.”

How to delete “Protect Your Visa Card” Email DLL files:

1. First locate “Protect Your Visa Card” Email DLL files you want to delete. Open your Windows Start menu, then click “Run.” Type “cmd” in Run, and click “OK.”
2. To change your current directory, type “cd” in the command box, press your “Space” key, and enter the full directory where the “Protect Your Visa Card” Email DLL file is located. If you’re not sure if the “Protect Your Visa Card” Email DLL file is located in a particular directory, enter “dir” in the command box to display a directory’s contents. To go one directory back, enter “cd ..” in the command box and press “Enter.”
3. When you’ve located the “Protect Your Visa Card” Email DLL file you want to remove, type “regsvr32 /u SampleDLLName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 /u jl27script.dll”) and press your “Enter” key.

That’s it. If you want to restore any “Protect Your Visa Card” Email DLL file you removed, type “regsvr32 DLLJustDeleted.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 jl27script.dll”) into your command box, and press your “Enter” key.

Did “Protect Your Visa Card” Email change your homepage?

1. Click Windows Start menu > Control Panel > Internet Options.
2. Under Home Page, select the General > Use Default.
3. Type in the URL you want as your home page (e.g., “http://www.homepage.com”).
4. Select Apply > OK.
5. You’ll want to open a fresh web page and make sure that your new default home page pops up.

“Protect Your Visa Card” Email Removal Tip

Is your computer acting funny after deleting any “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files? I recommend using a program like File Recover from PC Tools. File Recover saves deleted files that otherwise can’t be recovered by Windows operating sytem.

Want to save time finding “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files? Download Spyware Doctor, let it find the “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files for you, and then manually delete “Protect Your Visa Card” Email files.

How Did You Get “Protect Your Visa Card” Email?

Wondering how “Protect Your Visa Card” Email ended up on your PC? If you’re infected with “Protect Your Visa Card” Email or other badware, perhaps you were using…

• Freeware or shareware: Did you download and install shareware or freeware? These low-cost or free software applications may come bundled with spyware, adware, or programs like “Protect Your Visa Card” Email. Sometimes adware is attached to the free software to “pay” developers for the cost of creating the software, and more often spyware is secretly attached to free software to harm your computer and steal your personal and financial information.
• Peer-to-peer software: Do you use a peer-to-peer (P2P) program or other application with a shared network? When you use these applications, you put your system at risk for unknowingly downloading an infected file, including applications like “Protect Your Visa Card” Email.
• Questionable websites: Did you visit a website that’s of questionable nature? When you visit malicious sites that are fishy and phishy, badware may be automatically downloaded and installed onto your computer, sometimes including applications like “Protect Your Visa Card” Email. I recommend you use Firefox web browser, if you don’t already.

Understanding “Protect Your Visa Card” Email

If you’re infected with “Protect Your Visa Card” Email, you should know what you’re fighting. I’ll explain some definitions related to “Protect Your Visa Card” Email.

“Protect Your Visa Card” Email May Be a Phishing Scam

Phishing is just what it sounds like: “fishing.” But instead of fishing for sport, phishing is about fishing for identity theft victims. Phishing scams like this “Protect Your Visa Card” Email typically work like this: you get an email that looks like a legit alert from a popular bank or other financial institution. The phishing email says your account is about to be closed, for security reasons. So you click the link in the email to restore your account, and get taken to a con artist’s website that looks like a legit web page. You type in your username and password, and the phishers capture your login info. From there, phishers use your account name and password to steal your money and identity.

If you’ve clicked any links in a phishing email like “Protect Your Visa Card” Email, scan your computer for Trojans with antivirus software, and alert your bank and credit companies.