How to Remove Antivired.com Hijacker?
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Antivired.com Hijacker Information:
Antivired.com is a deceptive website which endeavors to make you waste your money on its sponsor software known as Antivirus Monitor malware. This malware aims to persuade you to spend money fixing non-existent viruses on your PC. Antivirus Monitor bypasses your approval and stealthily gets installed on your system. As soon as active, Antivirus Monitor starts its aggressive activities. It scans your system and later displays a dozen of dangerous items to cheat you. In addition to the false positives, Antivirus Monitor frequently displays bogus popup alerts informing about fake malware attacks. Another annoying issue is that it will restrict your browsing to Antivired.com only. That means you will hit Antivired.com instead of the website URLs you type in and you will run into a fake Internet Warning which also directs you to Antivired.com if you click on its options. To make it convincing, Antivired.com will offer you three versions of Antivirus Monitor, but none of them is capable of deleting your viruses. In fact, the main reason behind your browser redirect problem is the presence of Antivirus Monitor on your PC. This malware can distort your Internet settings so as to hijack your browsers. Therefore, you need to take care of its sponsor software first. Don’t hesitate to read the following part and learn how to remove Antivirus Monitor and Antivired.com virus.
Antivired.com Hijacker Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Antivired.com Virus. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files. In case you can’t surf the Internet, open Internet Explorer, go to “Tools”, choose “Internet options” and hit “Connections” tab. Click “LAN settings” and untick the option “Use a proxy server for your LAN”. Save all these changes. Now, you will be able to go to our website and download our removal tool to have Antivirus Monitor virus expelled for good.
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[random]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random].exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter “Enabled” = “0″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:18810″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” = “1″
The files you need to delete:
%Temp%\[random]\
%Temp%\[random]\[random].exe
Please, be aware that manual removal of Antivired.com Virus is a cumbersome task and can not always ensure complete removal of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, lack of the required skills and even the slightest deviation from the instructions may lead to irreparable system damage. That’s why it’s strongly recommended automatic removal of Antivired.com Virus, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Antivired.com Virus Removal:
1. Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 Key before Windows launches. Use the arrow keys to select the “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then hit ENTER Key to continue.
2. Download Antivired.com Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Antivired.com Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Antivired.com Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Antivired.com Virus Remover, you can download this correction script, unzip it and then double click to run it. It will correct your registry settings that the virus has modified. Then double click the program and finish the installation.
3. After the Online Scan finishes, click “Details” for the malware detected to make sure that your important data are not infected and removed. Ignore or select the scan result and click “Remove” to remove the threats. Reboot your computer and let Antivired.com Virus Remover delete all detected virus.
4. Click to repair your corrupted registry
Why should you need to repair the registry?
As we all know, virus and Trojans modify and destroy system registry and make the computer malfunction so that the computer will not perform normally. Even if the virus and Trojans are removed, the registry is still destroyed or modified, so the computer still has problems. That’s the very reason why you need to repair the registry. At the meanwhile, some virus and Trojans leave some DLL files in the registry and this will cause strange DLL errors and affect the computer performance.
To make your computer run as perfectly as before or much faster than before:
1. Download and install Multi-Awarded Registry Tool.
2. Run a full scan of your registry.
3. Click “Repair Problems” and repair all errors detected.
After these 3 easy steps, your computer will run much faster than before within minutes!
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Remove-Antivired on March 15th, 2011
Just wanted to express my gratitude for posting this simple and seemingly very effective solution. Thanks and keep up the great work..