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How to Remove Personal Anti Malware Rogue Anti-Spyware?

Personal Anti Malware Information:

Personal Anti Malware is a rogue anti-spyware application that sneaks into your computer through fake online scanners or other bogus sites. Once installed and executed, Personal Anti Malware will run a fake system scan and display loads of false threats or infections. Then it will claim that those threats can be removed only with a full version of the program and persuade you to pay for it. However, in reality the files “detected” by Personal Anti Malware are either legitimate programs or the ones created by the same Personal Anti Malware. Be smart, don’t pay for this bogus program. Instead, follow the removal guide beblow and remove Personal Anti Malware as soon as possbile.

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Manual Removal

Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Personal Anti Malware 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 openning Task Manager.

SysShield.exe, add.exe, AVP_Update.exe, PAM.exe

Step 2: The files you need to delete:

Personal Anti Malware.lnk, Support.lnk, add.exe, AVP_Update.exe, PAM.exe, scanopt.sys, svo.scf, sysdata.sys, SysShield.exe, Uninstall.exe

Step 3: The registry entries you need to delete:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AV2009

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVP09

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Personal Anti Malware”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Windows applications server”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform “AVP09″

Step 4: Delete the following directories:

C:\Program Files\Personal Anti Malware

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Personal Anti Malware

Please, be aware that manual removal of Personal Anti Malware 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 Personal Anti Malware Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

Automatic Personal Anti Malware 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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