How to remove Antivirus 2010 (Spyware Removal)
It’s that time of the year again – the plethora of fake Antivirus applications is growing. Recently I’ve noticed many of my customers getting caught with this one.
Antivirus 2010 is usually caught from less-than-trustworthy websites. It disguises itself as a virus & spyware scanner. After it ‘scans’ your computer it reports many dangerous viruses that need to be removed. This year, the designers have gone a step further and introduced a fake blue screen of death, and security center alerts.
How to get rid of spyware.
To remove Antivirus 2010, simply follow these instructions:
- First, you can try System Restore to restore yourself to a day when the virus wasn’t present. In many cases, this works. Otherwise continue to the next step.
- Download and install Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware from here.
- Once installed, Anti-Malware should start. If it doesn’t, load it manually.
- Make sure you’re on the ‘Scanner’ tab. Select ‘Perform full scan’ and then click Scan.
- Sit back and have a cuppa!
- When it has finished, click the ‘Show Results’ button.
- Make sure everything in the list is selected, and click ‘Remove Selected’.
At this point, Antivirus 2010 should be gone. If it isn’t, leave a comment and I’ll try to assist further.
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April 7th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Hi, I have downloaded malwarebytes on a different computer, then put it onto an external hard drive and tried to run it on the infected computer. The only problem is the antivirus vista malware will not let me install malwarebytes. It pretends to tell me that an ifected program is trying to install in the background (infected program being malwarebytes)
Wondering if there is any way around this? Any help would be much appriciated.
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April 7th, 2010 at 5:05 pm
RE: cannot install malware bytes..
I right clicked the file, and selected @run as administrator.. now the application is installing.
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July 28th, 2010 at 1:05 am
@Mattfox:
Glad you figured it out. Also, sometimes when applications won’t load, you can start in Safe Mode and on occasion they will because the virus won’t load into the safe mode environment.
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