Advanced Virus Remover is another rogue application that pretends to be legitimate virus removal tool. Parasite displays fake infections in order to push computer users into buying licensed version of Advanced Virus Remover. Important to notice, that Advanced Virus Remover can easily find a lot of infections even on absolutely clean systems. As for us it all that is needed to mark Advanced Virus Remover as rogue. Parasite is advertised via misleading online scanners and Trojan horses. Once Advanced Virus Remover gets in touch with your system it will be configured to start automatically every boot up. While running, Advanced Virus Remover will flood your system with fake security alert, pop-ups, exaggerated scan results informing that your computer is critically infected and you must purchase licensed version of Advanced Virus Remover in order to remove all threats and protect your data and privacy. But you must know that even full version of Advanced Virus Remover isn’t able to remove any infection. Moreover Advanced Virus Remover can download more malicious applications on to your computer. We strongly recommend you to remove Advanced Virus Remover rogue manually or using automatic removal tool.
Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Advanced Virus Remover manually:
It's possible to remove Advanced Virus Remover manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.
The files to be deleted:
c:\Program Files\AdvancedVirusRemover
c:\Program Files\AdvancedVirusRemover\PAVRM.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Advanced Virus Remover.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Advanced Virus Remover.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Advanced Virus Remover.lnk
Remove registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVR
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\CpMRU
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International\CpMRU
Please be careful because manual removal of Advanced Virus Remover 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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