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How to get rid of Antivirus 2009
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As an update to an earlier post about the nasty malware Antivirus 2009, a.k.a Antivirus 2008, a.k.a Antivirus XP, I've helped a few more people remove this garbage from their computers.
Today I encountered a laptop that was almost completely taken over by Antivirus 2009.
- Trying to access the control panel resulted in the desktop temporarily disappearing while the program closed the window. I could not access it at all.
- Attempting to access the Windows Live Onecare website resulted in internet explorer and firefox automatically shutting down.
- Task manager did not show the process tab or the file menu.
- The installed antivirus, McAffee, was blocked from running.
- The software tools I mentioned before were blocked from being downloaded.
I needed a quick solution and did not have time to try to dig the software out of the registry and manually remove the files, so I tried Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. You do not have to pay to use this software. The free version completely removed Antivirus from the laptop in the first scan. I highly recommend you try this if you get infected with Antivirus 2008/2009/XP.
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March 4, 2009 12:23 PM
Nice post
March 14, 2009 12:00 PM
Thanks dude!
some of this windows crap is sooo annoying...
April 23, 2009 2:55 AM
It's a hard proplem in my home pc, I'll try da thanks
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April 26, 2009 10:11 AM
Malware Bytes is a really good program in combination with Combofix can get rid of most garbage you can download onto your computer.
August 1, 2009 6:16 AM
in addition to what the above poster said,
combofix is a wonderful program but it must never be used unsupervised.. like only security analysts should read and work on the logs created by combofix.
October 15, 2009 12:28 PM
Yes. Combo-fix is great. There are lots of forums that lets users post their problem and security experts can comment on them for free.
Thanks for the heads up on malwarebytes. Ill ask my friends who are too cheapo to buy a paid solution to download the software. Lets see if that will keep them off my necks for days.
December 10, 2009 10:27 AM
Thanks for the solutions. Has anyone tried a quick system restore to before they received the virus? If so, did it work?
February 3, 2010 1:19 AM
Your blog is pretty good and impressed me a lot. This article along with the images is quite in-depth and gives a good overview of the topic.
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February 7, 2010 3:07 AM
According to me..there are many antivirus removal tool which are available for free.. you can use them and also you can use revo uninstaller, with which you can uninstall any software from registry level...so that's enough for ppl like me..who are not that tech savvy..I found it here
February 21, 2010 6:57 PM
Thanks for this wonderful thoughts you've brought to us. I'm using Windows XP and this really gives me a great help to fully secure my desktop.
I'll take note of this and very helpful for me. Thanks!
February 22, 2010 5:57 AM
antiviruses of 2009 are pretty annoying..your post has really helped me in getting rid of them
March 10, 2010 10:59 AM
A lot of internet providers also provide free Antivirus programs to their customers.
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