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Astrum Antivirus Pro Description:
Astrum Antivirus Pro is yet another species of rogue anti-spyware family that seems to be dominating the malware world presently. Astrum Antivirus Pro is aimed at misleading victims into purchasing its commercial version which is a complete counterfeit. While operating in the web, this rogue involves some malicious websites that generate fabricated popups. These fake positives will tell you about imaginary infections in your system, thus urging you to take immediate steps about it. No matter what part of such popup alerts you click, you will view an online system scan that runs and then reports a number of hazards your PC is claimed to have on board. Furthermore, you will be offered to use the Astrum Antivirus Pro utility to remove the ‘detected’ infections. Your system may as well get contaminated by Astrum Antivirus Pro through downloading video codes from some websites of doubtful nature. Once inside your machine, Astrum Antivirus Pro will launch each time you start your PC and trigger bogus security alerts and run fake scans to keep convincing you there are malicious things you need to get rid of. In addition, the system scan initiated by Astrum Antivirus Pro is known to label some of your legitimate files as corrupt ones, which is an indirect recommendation to remove these important system files. To sum up, Astrum Antivirus Pro is all about deceiving you and getting your money. So don’t ignore any strange popup ads and remove the threats hiding in your system ASAP.
Find out if your PC is infected with Astrum Antivirus Pro:
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Astrum Antivirus Pro GUI screenshot:

How to remove Astrum Antivirus Pro manually:
To perform manual removal of Astrum Antivirus Pro, you should do the following:
Delete Astrum Antivirus Pro files and folders:
- %UserProfile%c:\Program Files\Astrumsoftware
- %UserProfile%c:\Program Files\Astrumsoftware\Astrum.exe
- %UserProfile%c:\Program Files\Astrumsoftware\uninst.exe
- %UserProfile%%UserProfile%\Desktop\Astrum Antivirus Pro 3.6.lnk
- %UserProfile%%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Astrum Antivirus Pro 3.6.lnk
- %UserProfile%%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Astrum Antivirus Pro 3.6
- %UserProfile%%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Astrum Antivirus Pro 3.6\Astrum Antivirus Pro 3.6.lnk
Remove Astrum Antivirus Pro registry entries:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Astrumsoft
- HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{29E762AD-1B6F-3CB6-7F71-866F3E78180B}
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Astrumsoft
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Astrumsoft
Please, note that manual removal of Astrum Antivirus Pro 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 Astrum Antivirus Pro removal tool below:
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January 2nd, 2009 at 8:08 am
Thanks a lot, guys! Your tool is probably the only thing that works for removal of this nasty scam