Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Antivirus’09 (Antivirus 09) removal as a complex task

Adware of Antivirus’09 (Antivirus 09) has been found to be a payload of many viruses integrated into media and text files. The virus is a self-replicable malware that starts running and infecting other executable software as infected file is opened and malicious code, a virus, is thus executed.
Virus is not the only guide of Antivirus’09. Users are also often infected with Antivirus’09 in a seemingly legitimate way, when they are redirected to fake online scanner by Antivirus’09. This redirection may be also arranged by a specific malware related to Antivirus’09, namely a browser hijacker distributed as a troajn. Hence, there are three infections related to Antivirus’09: Antivirus’09 as such or adware of Antivirus’09, related hijacker and virus. The adware suggests users, as free scan is completed, to remove results of the scan, for which payable registration is required. However, as most malware, Antivirus’09 just imitates scan process and it is understandable that the infections it finds need not and cannot be removed, for they simply do not exist. Instead of this, remove Antivirus’09 adware and supporting infections, or else they will keep producing annoying ads with increasing intensity until they completely paralyze your computer system. Click here to start free scan (using Spyware Doctor with antivirus) in order to detect infections threatening your computer system and get rid of Antivirus’09, as well as of any other malware.

Antivirus’09 screenshots:



Antivirus’09 removal tool:

Antivirus’09 rogue anti-spyware manual removal guide:
Delete Antivirus’09 files:
AV2009.exe
AV2009_Update.exe
scanopt.sys
Support.url
sysdata.sys
SysShield.exe
Uninstall.exe
SysShield.exe
Antivirus 2009.lnk
Support.lnk
Uninstall Antivirus 2009.lnk
Antivirus 2009.lnk

Delete Antivirus’09 registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AVP09
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AV2009
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall\Antivirus 2009
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform “AVP09″
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run “Antivirus 2009″
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run “Windows applications server”

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