Apr 18, 2009

Remove Personal Antivirus - Personal Antivirus Removal Instructions

Personal Antivirus is a new rogue antispyware application, clone of well known Internet Antivirus Pro that has done a lot of harm to computers worldwide. Parasite uses Trojan horses to get onto your system secretly and without any notification or users approval. This Trojans will also configure Personal Antivirus to run automatically every boot up by adding entries to your registry. Once inside, Personal Antivirus will perform full system scan and list you variety of infections that cannot be removed until you first purchase licensed version. Also Personal Antivirus will flood your system with fake security alerts, annoying pop-ups, fake screens of death. You may notice that your computer start to run slower after Personal Antivirus was installed. That because Personal Antivirus uses too much system recourses.
We strongly recommend you to remove Personal Antivirus as soon as possible manually or using automatic removal tool.

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Personal Antivirus manually:
It's possible to remove Personal Antivirus manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.

The files to be deleted:

PersonalAntivirus.lnk
PersonalAntivirus.exe


Remove registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run “Personal Antivirus”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Personal Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall\Personal Antivirus


Please be careful because manual removal of Personal Antivirus may seriously damage operational system and sensitive data. Also there is a big possibility of incomplete removal, because some files could be hidden and program could re-install itself after you delete files and registry entries. So we strongly recommend you to use automatical removal tool.

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