How to Remove Earth AV Rogue Anti-Spyware?
Earth AV Information:
Earth AV (also known as EarthAV or Earth Antivirus) is a malicious rogue anti-spyware program from the same family as Green AV and ECO Antivirus. Earth AV is not as trustworthy and powerful as it appears to be. Earth AV enters into a targeted computer with the help of Trojans without user’s consent or permission. Earth AV adds registry entry to make system execute itself every time Windows starts up. After that, Earth AV will will keep on running its fake scanner once you turn on your computer. Its scanners will display a bunch of fake virus to scare you that your computer is badly infected. Besides deceptive ad popups, Earth AV may hijack your IE browser and direct you to its malicious website. What Earth AV suggests is to purchase its alleged license to remove all detected viruses. Of course, Earth AV has no ability to protect your computer against any virus. Its main goal is to make you fall for its trap and collect easy money. Don’t hesitate to follow our removal guide and remove Earth AV once it appears on your system.
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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 Earth AV 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\Programs\Earth AV
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\Earth AV.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Earth AV
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Earth AV
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Earth AV”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Earth AV
Please, be aware that manual removal of Earth AV 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 Earth AV Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Earth AV 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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