Sep 23, 2009

Remove Alpha Antivirus - AlphaAntivirus Removal Information

The modern Internet is packed with not only useful information, but also with all kinds of trash you could not even imagine. Sometimes inside that trash, you can find little techno-microbes, called the virus. Without having any protection, you will be easily infected. Thankfully, nowadays there are a lot of ways to protect our computers from the infections in the Internet. But there is one group of protection, which will never help you. Such applications are called rogue or fake software. Alpha Antivirus is one of those rogue antispyware programs that was created to make you believe that you are in safe, and trick you into paying for this unreal protection. Not sure it is possible? Unfortunately, it is. Even more, you might be already a victim, without knowing about it. Alpha Antivirus, like most of the other applications of the same type, after been stored down in your PC, will start an immediate scan of the system. The result of this scan is always identical: your computer is infected. Without no waiting, you start to find the solution of the problem occurred, and Alpha Antivirus knows about it. That is why it will give you a link, where you can find help and protection. Too bad, everything is nothing more but a simple fake. Bagging for help, you will get more problems. Keeping Alpha Antivirus in your system, you are in high risk. This application will download and install the Trojans viruses without you concerning. All in all, if you still think that Alpha Antivirus is the right way of protection, you are very wrong. And this little mistake can grow up into huge problems: from having less money in your wallet, to disappearing of all important files in your beloved PC.

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Innovagest2000 SL

Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Alpha Antivirus manually:
It's possible to remove Alpha Antivirus manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.

The files to be deleted:

c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Alpha Antivirus.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Alpha Antivirus
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Alpha Antivirus\1 Alpha Antivirus.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Alpha Antivirus\2 Homepage.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Alpha Antivirus\3 Uninstall.lnk
c:\Program Files\Alpha Antivirus Software
c:\Program Files\Alpha Antivirus Software\Alpha Antivirus
c:\Program Files\Alpha Antivirus Software\Alpha Antivirus\data.bin
c:\Program Files\Alpha Antivirus Software\Alpha Antivirus\license.txt
c:\Program Files\Alpha Antivirus Software\Alpha Antivirus\uninstall.exe
c:\Program Files\Alpha Antivirus Software\Alpha Antivirus\Alpha Antivirus.exe

Remove registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alpha Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Alpha Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Alpha Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Alpha Antivirus"


Please be careful because manual removal of Alpha 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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