How to remove Anti-Virus-1

Anti-Virus-1 description

Anti-Virus-1 is a successor of the infamous Antivirus 2010 fraud (learn more about Antivirus2010 infection). Anti-Virus-1 is promoted as it was recommended by the Microsoft Corp. It is also presented as a security tool; but all those tricks are fraudulent.

Anti-Virus-1 is neither anti-virus nor is it approved by Microsoft. AntiVirus-1(a.k.a. AV1) is a malware and a scam. Although it’s designed to look like a security program, it’s not capable of functioning as antivirus. AntiVirus1 is only able to fabricate security reports. The fake alerts are loaded in order to scare people into purchasing Anti-Virus-1. The paid version is useless.

Anti-Virus-1 is not dangerous for a computer but it makes a system run really slowly. It also redirects web browser to microsoft.browser-security-center.com which is a fraudulent website.

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Anti-Virus-1 is a Rogue Antispyware software

• Anti-Virus-1 is installed without your permission.
• Anti-Virus-1 reputation online is terrible.
• The official website of Anti-Virus-1 is poorly built and lacks basic information.
• The payments website of Anti-Virus-1 is suspicious.
• Performance of the program is poor.

How to manually remove Anti-Virus-1

To remove Anti-Virus-1 spyware you must block Anti-Virus-1 sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other Anti-Virus-1 files and registry utility. Follow the Anti-Virus-1 detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove Anti-Virus-1 by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden Anti-Virus-1 files, running processes and registries in your computer, so Anti-Virus-1 may recreate all other files after reboot.

Anti-Virus-1 manual removal instructions

Block Anti-Virus-1 sites:
microsoft.browser-security-center.com
av1-scanner.info
av1-download.info
antivirus1-site.info
av1-site.info
antivirus1-download.info
av-best.info
av1-best-click.info
best-av1.info
best-click-av1.info
av1-best-protect.info
best-av1-protect.info Read more how to block Anti-Virus-1 sites

Stop and remove Anti-Virus-1 processes:
AV1i.exe
Stage2[1].exe
AV1i2.exe
StageThree[1].exe
svchost[1].exe
svchost.exe
av1.exe
install[1].exe Read more how to kill Anti-Virus-1 processes

Locate and delete Anti-Virus-1 registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AV1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AV1\AV1\{F275E931-AFEC-4f70-B0D4-CC2731B945E0}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{29256442-2C14-48CA-B756-3EE0F8BDC774}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\QWProtect.DLL
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{70FEAD04-A7FD-4B89-B814-8A8251C90EF7}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{051C9A06-FB08-486F-B09B-8B33B261637D}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QWProtect.QWProtectBHO
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{512E801E-2F02-4ADE-ACAA-58F08A22B2F8}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{70FEAD04-A7FD-4B89-B814-8A8251C90EF7}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Monitor calibration" Read more how to delete Anti-Virus-1 registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Anti-Virus-1

Search and unregister Anti-Virus-1 DLL libraries:
QWProtect[1].dll
QWProtect.dll Read more how to unregister Anti-Virus-1 DLL files

Detect and delete other Anti-Virus-1 files:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Anti-virus-1
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\AV1.cab
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\av1.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\AV1i.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\AV1i2.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\QWProtect.dll
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\svchost.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Anti-virus-1.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Anti-virus-1\Anti-virus-1.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Anti-virus-1\Uninstall.lnk

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track Anti-Virus-1 and automaticaly remove Anti-Virus-1 processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.

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1. fubard
   May 16th, 2010 at 2:02 pm

   ok so how do you do all this crap when it wont let you open anything!!! I cant open IE options to block the site, can’t open task manager to stop processes!! I just reformatted yesterday becaue of this stupid thing… anyone know why nod32 didn’t pick it up either?!?! WTF windows OS issues are making want to really throw both computers out the window. >:S

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