How to remove General Antivirus

General Antivirus description

Don’t get too excited about having General Antivirus on your computer. GeneralAntivirus is not an anti-virus and it’s rather dangerous than helpful tool.

There are two ways to end up with flashy pop-ups of General Antivirus all over your screen. The program might be downloaded by clicking on fake online scanners that offer erasing viruses. The other way doesn’t require user interaction as GeneralAntivirus may also be installed secretly by trojans.

General Antivirus is a clone of the infamous InternetAntivirus Pro fraud (learn more about Internet Antivirus Pro malware). General Antivirus offers deleting computer threats after user pays for keeping the tool. The program isn’t capable of scanning a computer; it only fabricates scan reports to trick people into paying money.

These are the most common falsified alerts loaded by General Antivirus scam:

“General Antivirus has probably found malicious software that might harm your computer and compromised your privacy.
Warning! 21 infections found!
x Lost Documents and Settings
x Permanent Data Loss
x System not starting up
x System Slowdown and Crashes
x Loss of Internet Connection
x Infecting other computers on your network”

“Warning! Virus/Attack detected.
Possible harmful action has been detected on your computer.
General Antivirus engine has detected possible harmful actions from a remote computer on the network. Trojan.Win32.Delwin worm behavior detected.
Do you want to register your copy to get full protection feature set and an ability to defeat upcoming threats.”

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General Antivirus is a Rogue Antispyware software

• General Antivirus is installed without your permission.
• General Antivirus reputation online is terrible.
• The official website of General Antivirus is poorly built and lacks basic information.
• The payments website of General Antivirus is suspicious.
• Performance of the program is poor.

How to manually remove General Antivirus

To remove General Antivirus spyware you must block General Antivirus sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other General Antivirus files and registry utility. Follow the General Antivirus detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove General Antivirus by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden General Antivirus files, running processes and registries in your computer, so General Antivirus may recreate all other files after reboot.

General Antivirus manual removal instructions

Block General Antivirus sites:
general-antivirus.com
generalantivirus.com Read more how to block General Antivirus sites

Stop and remove General Antivirus processes:
GenAvir.exe
file.exe
GeneralAntivirus.exe
services.exe
iv.exe
unins000.exe Read more how to kill General Antivirus processes

Locate and delete General Antivirus registry entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\General Antivirus_is1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\Root\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\ITGrdEngine
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ITGrdEngine
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "ParameterName"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "prob"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "prob1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "prob2"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "probRedir"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "PrS"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "subscriber"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "uid"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\Run "iv"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "General Antivirus"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Microsoft Windows logon process" Read more how to delete General Antivirus registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by General Antivirus

Detect and delete other General Antivirus files:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\General Antivirus.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\General Antivirus
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\General Antivirus\General Antivirus Home Page.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\General Antivirus\General Antivirus.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\General Antivirus\Purchase License.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\settings.ini
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\uill.ini
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\unins000.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\Uninstall General Antivirus.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\db
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\db\config.cfg
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\db\Timeout.inf
%UserProfile%\Application Data\General Antivirus\db\Urls.inf
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\General Antivirus.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\winlogon.exe
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iGSh.png
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iMSh.png
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iPSh.png
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iv.exe
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\log.txt
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\pguard.ini
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\services.exe
%UserProfile%\2saSddPYaWAasRsE-thief.jpg
c:\Program Files\Common Files\file.exe
c:\Program Files\Common Files\GeneralAntivirus.exe
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\activate.ico
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\Explorer.ico
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\GenAvir.exe
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\unins000.dat
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\uninstall.ico
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\working.log
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\db
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\db\DBInfo.ver
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\db\ga090122.db
c:\Program Files\General Antivirus\Languages
c:\WINDOWS\system32\log.txt

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1. David Reightler
   December 24th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

   Went to boot up my sons PC and it will only boot to the XP wallpaper. No icons, no start menu, no nothing except the genavir.exe error window that re-appears every time you close it. Am I looking at a new hard drive or what? Help!!!!!!

   Reply

2. elcantu
   April 21st, 2010 at 3:37 pm

   boot the computer into safemode by clicking the f8 key at startup if you are able to load windows through this it gives you some hope of being able to clean without wiping everything of.

   Reply

3. Tony
   July 29th, 2010 at 2:51 am

   Once I got viruses on my computer They wouldn’t let me go anywhere I decided to purchase this software, though never heard of it before. It had cleaned up my system from all the crap and I’m quite satisfied with it so far, although my computer is a little bit slow still

   Reply

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