How to Remove AV7 Rogue Anti-Spyware?
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AV7 Information:
AV7 (also known as AV 7) is a malicious rogue anti-spyware which helps to accomplish commercial goals for its authors. AV 7 is a renamed version of Antivirus 7. AV7 is distributed through the use of fake online scanners and other malicious software and infiltrates target PC without any authorization at all. Once installed, AV7 will perform the pre-defined sequence of actions. AV7 modifies system registry and makes your system run its executables once the Windows starts. When running, AV7 shows bogus system scanners, pop-up ads and security warning treys. It will also show hundreds of insecure items “caught”. The only suggestion from AV7 is to purchase its “full” version. In fact, AV7 is not capable of detecting any computer problems and solving issues that it reports. Follow our instruction and remove AV7 if you find that your computer is infected with AV7, before it’s too late to save your computer and personal data stored there.
AV7 Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing AV7 Rogue Anti-Spyware. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files.
Step 1: End its process by opening Task Manager.
antivirus7.exe
Step 2: The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EVA246
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “AV7?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform “WinNT-EVI 12.03.2010?
Step 3: Unregister DLL files:
UpdateExplorer.dll
Step 4: Files you need to delete:
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AV7
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AV7\Antivirus7.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AV7\Uninstall.lnk
%Program Files%\AV7
%Program Files%\AV7\antivirus7.exe
%WINDOWS%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\Logs\tmp.edb
%WINDOWS%\system32\UpdateExplorer.dll
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Antivirus7.lnk
Please, be aware that manual removal of AV7 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 AV7 Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic AV7 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 AV7 Virus Virus, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make AV7 Virus Virus fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that AV7 Virus Virus can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing AV7 Virus Virus, 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 AV7 Virus Virus delete all detected virus.
4. Download and install RegTweaker (RegTweaker review) to repair your corrupted registry.
Why should you need RegTweaker?
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 RegTweaker.
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!
