How to Remove A-fast Antivirus Rogue Anti-Spyware?
A-Fast Antivirus Information:
A-Fast Antivirus is a bogus anti-spyware remover program that scares users into thinking that their computers are badly infected with malware by using misleading tricks. A-Fast Antivirus is rapidly spreading with the help Trojans and various malicious websites such as fake online scanners. Once installed and active, A-Fast Antivirus will imitate a system scan and display tons of infections. Then it will persuade you to buy a full version of the program in order to remove the infections which don’t even exist. Moreover, A-Fast Antivirus will pop up fake security warnings from Windows taskbar claiming that your computer is not protected or under attack from a remote hacker. Don’t buy this bogus program. A-Fast Antivirus is nothing but a scam. Instead, please use the removal guide below to remove A-Fast Antivirus from your computer as soon as possible.
A-Fast Antivirus Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing A-fast Antivirus Rogue Anti-Spyware. 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:
%UserProfile%\Desktop\A-fast Antivirus.lnk
%Program Files%\A-fast
%Program Files%\A-fast\A-fast.exe
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\A-fast
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DosableTaskMgr” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “fast”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List “C:\Program Files\A-fast\A-fast.exe”
Please, be aware that manual removal of A-fast Antivirus Rogue Anti-Spyware 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 A-fast Antivirus Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic A-fast Antivirus Rogue Anti-Spyware 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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