How to Remove Antivirus GT Rogue Anti-Spyware?
Antivirus GT Information:
Antivirus GT (also known as AntivirusGT) is a malicious rogue anti-spyware application designed to deceive you out of your money. Just like Antivirus 7, Antivirus GT secretly enters into your system due to the help of Trojans. As soon as installed onto your system, Antivirus GT will imitate a system scanner and displays a list of non-existing malware. Antivirus GT also actively generates bogus system tray notifications and fake security warnings to further scare you that there is something seriously wrong with your system. Antivirus GT is likely to hijack your IE browser and stop you from going online. You may find that you will be directed to a malicious website advertising Antivirus GT whenever you click on its popups or simply open your IE browser. The website tells you that Antivirus GT is the best solution to all virus and ask you to pay for it. You see, all its activities are to make you purchase a useless application. To end its malicious campaign, please stick to the removal instructions below and remove Antivirus GT.
Antivirus GT Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Antivirus GT 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:
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AVGT
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AVGT\AntivirusGT.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AVGT\Uninstall.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Desktop\AntivirusGT.lnk
%Program Files%\AVGT
%Program Files%\AVGT\AntivirusGT.exe
%Program Files%\Common Files\Uninstall
%Program Files%\Common Files\Uninstall\AVGT
%Program Files%\Common Files\Uninstall\AVGT\Uninstall.lnk
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “AntivirusGT”
Please, be aware that manual removal of Antivirus GT 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. 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 GT Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Antivirus GT 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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