Jan 30

Antivirus Soft Description:

Antivirus Soft is a corrupt pseudo-antivirus tool made for money-collecting purposes under the guidance of cyber criminals. Antivirus Soft is a follower of Antivirus System PRO and Antivirus Live which are both aggressive and real nasty ransomware. Antivirus Soft plugs its trojans into your system with the help of backdoor methods such as known vulnerabilities exploiting and corrupt file downloads. The worst thing about Antivirus Soft is its being extremely annoying when it gets down to fulfilling its corrupt plan of making fool of the unsuspecting victim (PC user). Antivirus Soft will try to show you how severely infected your computer is. It will issue misleading warning messages for that purpose. These will be phony pop-ups, system tray notifications and fabricated PC scanners. If Antivirus Soft happens to succeed in frightening you this way, it will go ahead and offer you to pay for its commercial software which, according to Antivirus Soft ads, can resolve all of your badware issues. Do not believe Antivirus Soft though; it tries to swindle you out of your money. An essential thing to realize if Antivirus Soft is running on your system is to refrain from clicking the ads it displays. Of course, it’s a must to remove Antivirus Soft (please see below to learn how).

Find out if your PC is infected with Antivirus Soft:

Antivirus Soft GUI Screenshot:

Antivirus Soft GUI

How to remove Antivirus Soft manually:

To perform manual removal of Antivirus Soft, you should do the following:

Delete Antivirus Soft corrupt files:

  • %Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Application Data\[random string]\[random string]sysguard.exe

Remove Antivirus Soft associated registry entries:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = “1″
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:5555″
  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random string]“
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random string]“

Please, note that manual removal of Antivirus Soft 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 Antivirus Soft removal tool below:

Download Antivirus Soft Removal Tool

One Response to “How to Remove Antivirus Soft – AntivirusSoft Removal Guide”

  1. 1. admin Says:

    Some of you are having difficulties removing Antivirus Soft since it prevents you from eliminating it.
    Here is what you can additionally do about this:

    - Enter Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking via clicking F8 button multiple times while your computer is loading. Safe Mode should enable you to avoid some traps of Antivirus Soft.

    - Open up Task Manager via hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del. If you can, you should find the [random string]sysguard.exe process. End this process immediately. After the executable of Antivirus Soft is stopped, the malware will be in a temporary knock down. Use this time to get rid of Antivirus Soft using the guide above.

    - Use a browser other than Internet Explorer. Mozilla Firefox will work. Antivirus Soft tends to enable the use of a proxy server for your LAN, which prevents you from going online. To avoid this, open IE, go to ‘Tools’ – ‘Internet Options’ – ‘Connections’ – ‘LAN Settings’, then untick ‘Use a proxy server for your LAN’ option. Save all the changes you made.

    The above tips and tricks usually suffice to remove Antivirus Soft badware.

    We are awaiting your feedback!

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