How to remove Antivirus 2009

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am

Antivirus 2009 description

Antivirus 2009 (Antivirus2009) is a rogue anti-spyware software, a clone of the infamous Antivirus 2008. Antivirus 2009 comes to your computer when you install fake video codecs, infected with trojan zlob.

Other Antivirus 2009 aliases that have recently appeared are:

  • XP Antivirus 2008
  • Vista Antivirus 2008
  • Ultimate Antivirus 2008
  • System Antivirus 2008

Antivirus2009 loads various fake security alerts such as the following:
“DANGER!
Your private life and private details are threatened by
potentially severe privacy violations!
Your PC keeps track of all the sites you visit, including the adult sites.
As a rule, you don’t even realize that there may be files on your PC
that may infringe your privacy or compromise you.
A hi-tech criminal can easily get your credit card credentials!
Without protection, you take risk of becoming a fraud victim every
second you spend online”

If user clicks on such a pop-up, he/she is offered paid version of Antivirus 2009 “Protection”.

Get rid of Antivirus 2009

Antivirus 2009 is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove Antivirus 2009

To remove Antivirus 2009 spyware you must block Antivirus 2009 sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other Antivirus 2009 files and registry utility. Follow the Antivirus 2009 detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove Antivirus 2009 by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden Antivirus 2009 files, running processes and registries in your computer, so Antivirus 2009 may recreate all other files after reboot.

Antivirus 2009 manual removal instructions

Block Antivirus 2009 sites:
freeonlinescanner9.com
securedownloadcenter.com
active-scanner.com
pcsecurityscanner.com
antivirus-2009-pro.net
pc-security-scanner.com
pcantivirusscanner.com
liveantiviruspccheck.com
antivirus-fast-scanner.com
advancedproscan.com
antivirus-computer-scan.com
professional-virus-scanner.com
lite-anti-virus-scan.com
liteantivirusproscan.com
Read more how to block Antivirus 2009 sites

Stop and remove Antivirus 2009 processes:
av2009.exe
Antivirus2009.exe
Read more how to kill Antivirus 2009 processes

Locate and delete Antivirus 2009 registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Antivirus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\”Antivirus” = “%ProgramFiles%\Antivirus 2009\Antvrs.exe”
Read more how to delete Antivirus 2009 registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Antivirus 2009

Search and unregister Antivirus 2009 DLL libraries:
shlwapi.dll
wininet.dll
Read more how to unregister Antivirus 2009 DLL files

Detect and delete other Antivirus 2009 files:
av2009.exe
Antivirus2009.exe
Antivirus 2009.lnk
Uninstall Antivirus 2009.lnk

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track Antivirus 2009 and automaticaly remove Antivirus 2009 processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.


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Antivirus 2009

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