Advanced Antivirus

What is Advanced Antivirus?
Advanced Antivirus is a fake anti-spyware program from the same family as Vista Antivirus 2008, Ultimate Antivirus 2008, and Windows Antivirus 2008. Advanced Antivirus may have downloaded itself onto your computer through a Trojan, like Zlob.

Once installed, Advanced Antivirus will run a scan and display a list of security risks found on your computer. They show infections, which are actually all fake and false positives, to scare you into thinking you are infected and hope that you will then buy their software. Advanced Antivirus also performs another tactic to show fake warnings that your computer is being attacked and that you should purchase Advanced Antivirus in order to protect yourself.

Advanced Antivirus can launch when you start up Windows, and Advanced Antivirus may popup tons of ads that are hard to close.

Do you have Advanced Antivirus?
If you have enough time and expertise, you can search your computer for Advanced Antivirus manually. However, it might take hours to find out all files of Advanced Antivirus, and it is possible that Advanced Antivirus will appear after rebooting, for its hidden files may still be there.

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Manual Advanced Antivirus removal instructions
WARNING: The manually removal method is for advanced users. Advanced Antivirus manually removal can be difficult and time-consuming. There is no guarantee that Advanced Antivirus can be completely removed, for there are hundreds of files generated when Advanced Antivirus installed on your system. Make sure to back up your computer in case that you make any mistakes and your system does not work.

Follow the instruction below for Advanced Antivirus removal manually:

Navigate and stop Advanced Antivirus processes:
AAVSetup.exe
aav.exe

Navigate and Unregister Advanced Antivirus DLL Files:
N/A

Navigate and Remove Advanced Antivirus registry values:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AAV
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AntiVirus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Antivirus”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Antivirus”

Navigate and Delete Advanced Antivirus files:
c:\Program Files\AAV
c:\Program Files\AAV\aav.cpl
c:\Program Files\AAV\aav.exe
c:\Program Files\AAV\aav0.dat
c:\Program Files\AAV\aav1.dat
c:\WINDOWS\system32\aav.cpl
c:\Documents and Settings\Bleeping\Desktop\Advanced Antivirus.lnk

What are the symptoms of Advanced Antivirus?

• Advanced Antivirus may have downloaded itself onto your computer through a Trojan
• Advanced Antivirus may show fake and false positives
• Advanced Antivirus may show fake warnings to scare
• Advanced Antivirus may launch when Windows starts up
• Advanced Antivirus may slow down computer process

How do I keep away from Advanced Antivirus?
Once you have cleaned up Advanced Antivirus, the most important point to prevent Advanced Antivirus and future malicious programs from reverting is to stay suspicious of spam E-mail attachment and unknown websites. Here are several ways in which you can help protect your computer against Advanced Antivirus and other malware:

• Use a computer firewall
• Confirm that you have downloaded all the latest critical security updates
• Adjust Internet Explorer web browser’s security settings
• Download and install anti-spyware protection, such as, Spyware Cease
• Surf sites and download programs from the web sites you trust

What is Rogue AntiSpyware Program?
Advanced Antivirus is a type of Rogue AntiSpyware Program.

Rogue Anti-spyware Software is the software that uses malware to advise or install itself through other malicious viruses or security hole without your permission. Rogue software usually pops up fake system message such as “Warning, your computer is infected! Click here to scan your computer now!” Most of the time, when clicking the “OK” button on the dialog tab, users will be directed to an unknown website that may download more spyware threats. Sometimes, even clicking the close button on the top right may lead to the installation of the rogue software, for the button is actually a link.

With the purpose to trick innocent users into the action of paying, rogue software usually counterfeits exaggerated and fake system scanning results and scare users to pay for the removal of the never-existed spyware infections. In fact, the threat is the rogue software itself. Most of them come with a bundle of very harmful spyware programs that hidden in the files themselves.