How to Remove Antivirus Soft Rogue Anti-Spyware?
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Antivirus Soft Information:
Antivirus Soft is an obnoxious rogue anti-virus program from the same rogue family as Antivirus Live and AntiSpyware Soft. Antivirus Soft is rapidly spreading thru various misleading websites, fake online scanners, but it can be also promoted in Facebook, MySpace and similar websites. Once installed and active, it will pretend to scan your computer for malware and deliberately display a variety of infections that can be only removed with a full version of Antivirus Soft. What’s more, Antivirus Soft not only disables your legit antivirus and antispyware, but also changes Internet Explorer’s settings. A proxy server will be added under the LAN settings, so that you cannot browse to any web site other than the sites for Antivirus Soft. If you linger and do nothing to remove Antivirus Soft infection, it may progress and make things even worse, such as PC crashes, system freezes, more browser redirects and many other unwanted things. Follow our removal guide below now.
Antivirus Soft Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Antivirus Soft Rogue Anti-Spyware. 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 Soft virus expelled for good.
The files you need to delete:
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Application Data\[random string]\[random string]tssd.exe
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Application Data\[random string]\[random string]sftav.exe
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Local Settings\Application Data\[random string]\[random string]sysguard.exe
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:5555″
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 Antivirus Soft 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, 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 Antivirus Soft Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Antivirus Soft 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 Antivirus Soft Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Antivirus Soft Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Antivirus Soft Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Antivirus Soft 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 Antivirus Soft 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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