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Antivirus 2008 Removal Instructions

by Sarah on July 13, 2008


Antivirus 2008 Manual Removal Instructions


WARNING:
This Antivirus 2008 manual removal process requires good computer skills, manipulations with Windows registry may cause system crash.
Don-t forget to make system and registry backup before this operations.
We cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. We decline any responsabilaty, Use this manual removal at your own risk.
We highly recommend you to download our Recommended Automatic Spyware Remover.


To manually remove Antivirus 2008, follow the steps below:

  • 1. Find and Remove the following Antivirus 2008 Processes:


    • Antvrs.exe
    • AntiVirus2008.exe
    • AntvrsInstall.exe

    		 How to Stop malicious Processes

  • 2. Find and Remove the following Antivirus 2008 files and folders:


    • Uninstall Antivirus.lnk
    • AntiVirus 2008.lnk
    • shlwapi.dll
    • wininet.dll

    		 How to find and delete harmful files

  • 3. Find and Remove the following Antivirus 2008 files and folders:


    • HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAntivirus
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAntivirus
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun”Antivirus” = “%ProgramFiles%Antivirus 2008Antvrs.exe”

    		 How to find and remove malicious Registry entries


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    Wrong manual removing process can cause irreparable and serious damage to your computer operating system. You may need the use of a powerful anti-spyware utility such as our Recommended Automatic Spyware Remover to get rid of Antivirus 2008, to completely clean your computer of any invasive threat and to keep it protected from future spyware infections.

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    { 5 comments… read them below or add one }

    1 Nick September 4, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Are you supposed to delete all the winiit and shlwapi files, or just a specific one? I was only expecting to find one of each, but my search turned up numerous entries for both files

    2 Divod August 31, 2008 at 5:43 am

    This site is an amazing helping n supporting ppl to get through these harmful stuff

    so thanks to every one who is working on that … well about the files it seems we can delete them i hope they wont effect on my system by recopying it self again to make this stupid anti virus 2oo8

    3 Clint July 26, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    Very helpful.
    Like Simone I could not remove one .dll file.
    I removed all others with no problem.
    The single wininet.dll file I could not remove was in C:Windows/System32
    I suspect that one is hard wired in the software and was the springboard for all the others that landed in servicepack, softwaredistribution and E:
    BTW, one other tip…add a note about selecting the viewing option on search for ALL HIDDEN FILES as well. Additionally the found files can be deleted from the Search directory instead of an individual search and find then delete.

    4 Sarah July 24, 2008 at 2:48 am

    Simone,

    this sounds obvious, but, Are you sure that you are the administrator of the PC ?

    5 Simone July 24, 2008 at 12:23 am

    What if the computer will not let me delete the harmful files? It keeps saying access is denied

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