Anybody Refer Me To A Good Antivirus That Gets Rid Of Fake Antivirus Programs?
My computer is too open for fake antiviruses! So far I have Total Security, Spyware Doctor, and some Personal Antivirus on here! I desperately need help! I need something that is free and doesn’t need a license to work! Please people, I’ll vote best answer myself! Thank you to all who answer!
Spyware doctor is not fake. Even google distributes it in google pack ( http://pack.google.com , free version). Try updating it at it should remove fakes.
You might want to get MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. I work as a technician and most of the customers getting all of the rogue antiviruses (or fake antiviruses as you call them) software, I use that software to get rid of them and it usually does the work.
What I would recommend doing is to run it more than once though. First time it will most likely find a few targeted files and once done you’d have to click on “show results”. Once you see the results you’ll notice that all the items are checked on the left side. Click on remove selected items. Once that is complete it will most likely ask you to reboot the computer to complete removal of these items. Do so, and once your computer has rebooted, scan it once more with the same software and keep doing so until you get 0 results at the end.
Hope it helps!
BTW, I see enormous amounts of customers of mine coming in with infected computers like yours and I can assure you that they did have an antivirus on their units. The only thing is they each had the same antivirus which was AVG free. I am warning you do not get that software it does absolutely nothing against the majority of malware out there these days. If you must get a free one get Avast! antivirus.
Removal
First download Combofixhttp://download.bleepingcomputer.com/sUB…
Warning there is a lot of fake version of combofix the one up there is the real one
Combofix is sensitive to a lot of AV Besure that you turn off or remove it if you do not know how to
Double click ComboFix it will lunch a CMD
Stage 1 To stage 55 Take about 10 minutes
Then download Malwarebyteshttp://www.filehippo.com/download_malwar…
install it
and update and run a full scan
Reboot/Restart in Safe mode (press F8 conitnously)
If you do not know How to See tutorialhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PRWXVD_8…
disconnect the internet but only reconnect the internet incase you need to update or something
and most of all do windows update it is very importanthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1roTgk_Sr…
Why windows update are so important
1) boot into safe mode with networking, install this, run update and quick scanhttp://www.malwarebytes.org/
2) then, install this and reboothttp://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-…
3) run full scan wth the above 2 antivirus and antispyware software
4) clean your pc with these, then reboot.http://www.ccleaner.com/http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscare…
Use combofix from bleepingcomputer.com, then go download malwarebytes from softpedia.com or cnet.com and use it, then clean the rest of the virus with superantispyware from softpedia.com or superantispyware.com, and for future protection use avira as antivirus and a good firewall such as Online Armor or Outpost Firewall.
well for 1 thing Total security and personal antivirus are fake and useless! Here’s my suggestion-
Avira.com Antivirus free only install 1 antivirus 2 will conflict
Malwarebytes.org free malware protection( purchase protection module)
Superantispyware.com free malware/spyware protection
comodo firewall free
good luck and be safe out there!
download and install the Free version of AVG, and download and install spybot search and destroy. With these 2 programs watching your back, you wont have any problems.
Try malware bytes, it is very good when combatting rogues.
So far I have Total Security, Personal Antivirus on here! Their both rogue programs that are causing you your problems )~8
I’ll post the removal instructions for both? Good Luck!
I hope you have a windows set up disc because it may be faster and better to wipe your infected OS and reinstall it?
Go here for info:http://lifehacker.com/157578/geek-to-liv…
Personal Antivirus Removal Instructions for XP
Plan A
Quick fix:Open IE and type or copy & paste
C:Program FilesCommon FilesUninstallPersonalAVUninstall.lnk
in the address bar and hit enter.
Plan B
1.Hit Ctrl Shift and Esc at the same time and bring up your task manager and choose the processes tab and look for PerAvir.exe, unins000.exe, services.exe,
iv.exe and winlogon.exe? Rt click on them and choose end process.(If you can’t move on)
2.When your done shutting them down click on [File] at the top left corner of your task manager and choose New Task (Run).Type msconfig and hit Ok. Go in BOOT.INI tab and tick both “Safe boot” and to the right of that “Networking” and hit Apply and Close.(It will boot in “Safe with networking mode” Choose Administrator)
3.While in “Safe with networking mode” download Malwarebytes.
(Free) http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-An…
(Note)If you already have Malwarebytes installed and it won’t run go in it’s program file and rt click on the red mbam app and rename it mbam.bat then rt click and choose send to-> Desktop (create shortcut) now close out of everything and go to your desk top and use that app to launch M-Bam for now on.
4.Right click on the mbam setup app you downloaded and rename it xxxx then Dbl click on it and install and update it and run a full scan and delete/quarantine all entities it finds and restart if it asks? (Note) If it won’t update use this link to download and install the latest rules: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/databas…
5.Go to Start,Run,type msconfig and hit ok.Go in BOOT.INI tab and untick Safe Boot and then go in the Startup tab and (uncheck) all programs (not) needed at startup (Only check programs you want running all the time like antivirus,IM,etc)”Lesser is better in this case” and hit apply,close,restart.
Your computer will boot normally and on your desktop a window will popup,check “Don’t show this message” box and hit ok and your done (~8
(Note)Check here for info’s on startup programs http://www.techspot.com/startup/
(How to video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSwtNiBx…
(Optional)
Download Superantispyware,install,update,and run a quick scan and
delete/quarantine all entities it finds.
(Free) http://download.cnet.com/SuperAntiSpywar…
Total Security 2009 Removal Instructions for XP
1.Hit Ctrl Shift and Esc at the same time and bring up your task manager and choose the processes tab and look for 10530004.exe,18384534.exe,tsc.exe and
Sc2C21UvvM.exe? Rt click on them and choose end process.(If you can’t shut them down move on)
2.Go to Start -> Run -> Type msconfig -> Ok -> Go in BOOT.INI tab and tick both “Safe boot” and to the right of that “Networking” and hit Apply and Close.(It will boot in “Safe with networking mode” Choose Administrator)
3.While in “Safe with networking mode” download Malwarebytes.
(Free) http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-An…
(Note)If you already have Malwarebytes installed and it won’t run go in it’s program file and rt click on the red mbam app and rename it mbam.bat then rt click and choose send to-> Desktop (create shortcut) now close out of everything and go to your desk top and use that app to launch M-Bam for now on.
4.Right click on the mbam setup app you downloaded and rename it xxxx then Dbl click on it and install and update it and run a full scan and delete/quarantine all entities it finds and restart if it asks? (Note) If it won’t update use this link to download and install the latest rules: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam/databas…
5.Go to Start,Run,type msconfig and hit ok.Go in BOOT.INI tab and untick Safe Boot and then go in the Startup tab and (uncheck) all programs (not) needed at startup (Only check programs you want running all the time like antivirus,IM,etc)”Lesser is better in this case” and hit apply,close,restart.
Your computer will boot normally and on your desktop a window will popup,check “Don’t show this message” box and hit ok and your done (~8
(Note)Check here for info’s on startup programs http://www.techspot.com/startup/
(How to video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbSwtNiBx…
(Optional)
Download Superantispyware,install,update,and run a quick scan and
delete/quarantine all entities it finds.
(Free) http://download.cnet.com/SuperAntiSpywar…
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Stay Safe Out There (^.^)