How to Remove Av-downloadcenter.com Hijacker?
Av-downloadcenter.com Hijacker Information:
Av-downloadcenter.com is a website promoting a fake anti-spyware software called AV Defender 2011. You may be forcibly rerouted to Av-downloadcenter.com. In fact, it’s AV Defender 2011 that creates this chaos. This scamware enters into the targeted system with the affiliated Trojan. This Trojan helps modify the Internet settings and thus keeps hijacking your browsers to Av-downloadcenter.com. On there, the site will show you an online scan with AV Defender 2011. Its fake scan result along side with lots of bogus popup ads will attempt to frighten you and expect you to purchase its commercial verion. Don’t buy this scamware. Please know that being rerouted to Av-downloadcenter.com means you have at least one Trojan on your system and probably the trial version of AV Defender 2011. Remove AV Defender 2011 and Av-downloadcenter.com hijacker to stop its interference.
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Av-downloadcenter.com Virus. 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 the virus expelled for good.
Step 1. End the relative process by opening Task manager.
[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
[RANDOM CHARACTERS]tssd.exe
[random characters]shdw.exe
Step 2: The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\wnxmal
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter “Enabled” = “0”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = “http=127.0.0.1:6522″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” = “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache “%UserProfile%\Desktop\flash_player_installer\flash_player_installer.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “CheckExeSignatures” = “no”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” =”1″
Step 3: The files you need to delete:
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]tssd.exe
%AppData%\[random]\InstallParams.lst
%AppData%\[random]\sk.lst
%AppData%\AVDefender2011\
%AppData%\AVDefender2011\vlc.dat
%AppData%\AVDefender2011\history.dat
%StartMenu%\AVDefender2011\
%StartMenu%\AVDefender2011\AVDefender2011.lnk
Please, be aware that manual removal of Av-downloadcenter.com virus 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 Av-downloadcenter.com virus, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Av-downloadcenter.com virus 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 Av-downloadcenter.com Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Av-downloadcenter.com Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Av-downloadcenter.com Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Av-downloadcenter.com Virus 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 Av-downloadcenter.com Virus 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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