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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Remove Antivirus 2009

Antivirus 2009 is the newer version of the Antivirus 2008 and is there to scam you. Also just like its older version, its makes your system slow, brings unwanted popups and can also make your system infected with some serious trojans. So its advisable to remove it as soon as you get infected.
The following pics reveal how convincing this scam is that the user in major cases believe it to be a true antivirus.

The new antivirus is out with an added professional look


Its make a fake security center named 'Windows Security Center', the windows one being the Security Center

REMOVAL STEPS
1. Open task manager(Ctrl+Alt+Del). Locate and end the process av2009.exe using right click and selecting 'end process' option.

2. Now go to C:\Program Files(Assuming that you have windows installed in C drive) and delete the entire folder named Antivirus 2009.
3. As seen in the second picture, Antivirus 2009 makes a fake Windows security center. So we need to remove that. So go to C:\windows\system32 and delete the file scui.cpl

4. Now delete all the shortcuts on desktop and start menu made by Antivirus 2009

5. Empty recycle bin

Now we need to do some registry editing. Please complete the following steps carefully as improper registry editing could lead to system instability.

6. Go to Start Menu->Run-> Type regedit and press enter

7. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\39148080807332159842981568027496
Delete the key ( i.e. the key with a long number which may differ in your pc but will be very long)

8. Now Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and delete name(long nos.) with data as C:\Program Files\Antivirus 2009\av2009.exe

9. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs\Antivirus 2009
Delete this key i.e. Antivirus 2009


10 Now if your themes, appearance and settings are missing you can download small tool from here

Your pc is clean

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19 comments:

Unknown said...

THANKS...
IT HELPED ME A LOT....

Anonymous said...

it was in menu not menu2 in my case,and google box is stil there. I cannot get to any website.help.

Anonymous said...

THANK U SOOO MUCH 4 ALL D HELP ON THIS SITE.. I AM AN IDIOT WHEN IT COMES DOWN 2 STUFF LIKE THIS BUT U MADE IT VERY EASY 4 ME ..

Anonymous said...

Hi Kiel and thanks for your excellent and very well informed blog. I've currently got this virus although as I'm currently in work it will be tomorrow before I get a chance to have a go with the above and I'll keep you updated. Thankfully I've an iPhone to assist. Thanks again

Derek

Anonymous said...

Hey Sir,
I really Thank u alot, coz this thing keeps on buggin me like a parasite, and i got so frustrated, but thanks for Gods Help who lead me to ur site...

Ur really Great in helping, i hope u keep on the gud work... THx againnnnnnnnnnnn so muchhhhhhhhhhh

Anonymous said...

Very helpful article for us who suffer about that type of problem. Thanksssssss. Good post for you are really thanked.

Anonymous said...

thankz for the tips that you posted... it really helps me.. hope that you can explore other methods on removing some virus or spyware that could affect the computer system..

thanks again..

Ucrit_penyu said...

Wohow....

Finally,, i get my computer clean!!

Thanks a lot, master....

May i post this to my blog,, i put the source from your blog also...

Thanks a lot :)

Regards,
ucrit

Coffee-Hime said...

OMG.thanx mister. it really helped me a lot. the antivirus bugger really annoyed me.

Anonymous said...

you are one serious legend!! thank god we have people like you here.
now my computer is squeaky clean.

peace out. much love

Anonymous said...

thank you thank you thank you :)
i thought I really had like 30 viruses on my pooter. what a scam!

Anonymous said...

DID WORK ..SORT OFF.. SOMTHIN KEEPS POOPIN UP AND DIISAPERING IN FLASHES...A BLACK SCREEN

Anonymous said...

I am using REMOVEITPRO, and everything fine. Try it, really...

Anonymous said...

thnx bro

Anonymous said...

I have done everything on here, but the scui.cpl file was not on my comp... I still get pop ups from the fake security system. I was wondering if you or anyone else reading knows if the fake system could have possible saved with a different name?

Anonymous said...

cant find the scui.cpl file as well.. :o

Anonymous said...

cant find the scui.cpl :(

Anonymous said...

thank you so much...
it's all really2 help me!

Anonymous said...

HI how can i remove the win pc antivirus it keeps on poping up every second and i didnt instale it help please.