Windows Protection

Anti-Virus-1 Description:

Anti-Virus-1 (AKA AntiVirus-1, AntiVirus1, AntiVirus 1) is a direct clone of Antivirus 2010 fake anti-spyware utility. As a rule, Anti-Virus-1 malicious trialware propagates through exploiting splits in operation systems, so its penetration is usually hidden. The intrusion of Anti-Virus-1 on your system will be followed by some annoying activity like triggering bogus alerts, system tray notifications or substituting an information bar with its own. Consequently, any of your actions to close the above adware components will divert you to a web page (mostly, it’s Microsoft.browser-security-center.com) that intensely promotes Anti-Virus-1 and encourages you to register its full version for a reduced price. The truth is that you won’t get rid of this obsessive system activity until you eliminate Anti-Virus-1 from your PC once and for all. With Anti-Virus-1 on board, its manual removal via the “Add/Remove Programs” will typically be disabled so you will probably have to either spot and remove its files and registry entries by yourself, or use an automatic removal tool. Anyway, having Anti-Virus-1 inside your system is not compatible with its normal further performance, so you are highly recommended to get rid of Anti-Virus-1 ASAP if your computer happens to be infected.

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How to remove Anti-Virus-1 hijacker manually:

To perform manual removal of Anti-Virus-1, you should do the following:

Delete Anti-Virus-1 related files and folders:

• %Program Files%\AV2010
• %Program Files%\AV2010\AV2010.exe
• %Program Files%\AV2010\svchost.exe
• %WINDOWS%\system32\IEDefender.dll
• %WINDOWS%\system32\wingamma.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\AV2010.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\AV2010
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\AV2010\AV2010.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\AV2010\Uninstall.lnk

Remove Anti-Virus-1 assiciated registry entries:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AV2010
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{3C40236D-990B-443C-90E8-B1C07BCD4A68}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\IEDefender.DLL
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FC8A493F-D236-4653-9A03-2BF4FD94F643}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEDefender.IEDefenderBHO
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEDefender.IEDefenderBHO.1
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{7BC7565C-5062-43CE-8797-DC2C271140A9}
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{705FD64B-2B7B-4856-9337-44CA1DA86849}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Windows Gamma Display”

Please, note that manual removal of Anti-Virus-1 and affiliated rogue anti-spyware is a procedure of high complexity and should be performed with extreme caution. Lack of the required skills and even the slightest deviation from the instructions may lead to irreparable system damage. To ensure trouble-free deletion, it is recommended to use the automatic Anti-Virus-1 removal tool below:

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