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How to Remove Alphaantivir.com Hijacker?

Alphaantivir.com Hijacker Information:

Alphaantivir.com (or Alphaantivir.microsoft.com)is one of the misleading “official” websites dedicated to distribute a dangerous rogue anti-spyware program named Antispyware Soft. Once infected and active, it will hijack your browser and you will be repeatedly redirected to Alphaantivir.com of all your online sessions. And the only site you can visit is Alphaantivir.com. Another commercial goal of this site is to get some of your money. Antispyware Soft will keep poping up fake scan report and demand you to buy its full version and remove the threats. So it’s urgent to remove this Alphaantivir.com hijacker.

Alphaantivir.com Website Screenshot:

Manual Removal

Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Alphaantivir.com Hijacker. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files.

The files you need to delete:

%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Application Data\[random string]\[random string].exe

%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Application Data\[random string]\[random string]tssd.exe

The registry entries you need to delete:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random string]“

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random string]“

Please, be aware that manual removal of Alphaantivir.com hijacker 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, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why it’s strongly recommended automatic removal of Alphaantivir.com hijacker, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

Automatic Alphaantivir.com Hijacker 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 Spyware Cease (Spyware Cease review), install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Spyware Cease fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Spyware Cease can detect all potential malware in your system.

NOTE: If you have problem installing Spyware Cease, 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 Spyware Cease 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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