Antivirus Live Virus

In the recent years, the usage of Internet has increased by leaps and bounds. Now computers are just not used for studies or preparing office documents. There are hosts of activities that can be done through various applications on the Internet. You can watch TV, play games, use it for music downloads and various other facets of online entertainment. If you frequently surf the Internet, you may have encountered various software programs that claim to be antivirus software. An unaware user, thinking such software to be an anti virus software, clicks on them and within moments the computer gets infected with antivirus live virus.

Antivirus Live Virus: What is it?
The name 'antivirus live virus' in itself indicates that it's an computer virus disguised in the form of antivirus. So, the antivirus live virus, in essence, is a computer virus and not a virus scanning software, as it pretends to be by sending messages on the computer screen. Antivirus live virus firstly shows up as a scanning software program however, it eventually affects the computer severely.

Problems Due to Antivirus Live Virus
The antivirus live virus will affect the computer in many ways. Some of the most commonly occupying problems that a computer affected from this antivirus live virus may face are as follows.

• The speed of the computer slows down drastically.
• Several blocked or irrelevant pop ups will appear on the computer monitor.
• The antivirus live virus can also spread your personal information on various other computer online and in your network area.
• It'll also obstruct any useful applications from opening.
• It may also change registry and web browser settings.
• By showing fake virus detections and scanning procedure, this virus affects the computer badly.

How to Clean Up Antivirus Live
No matter how you got the antivirus live, you've to get rid of it to restore your computer's functioning. Mention below are some steps for removing antivirus live.

Step #1
For removing antivirus live virus from your PC, you just can't depend on antivirus live removal tool. This virus severely affects and deletes the files of the computer system. Even if there are some files that have not been deleted and the virus has affected those files, then after a reboot, the antivirus live virus may again infect the system.

Step #2
Scan your computer by using a latest and updated good antivirus software. That will eliminate the antivirus live virus from your pc.

Step #3
Search and delete the following folder: %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\

Step #4
Delete the file: %WINDOWS%\system32\iehelper.dll

Step #5
Block all websites and pages from where you possibly got the antivirus live virus.

Step #6
After opening windows registry and delete following values.

1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes" = ".exe"
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download "RunInvalidSignatures" = "1"
3. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation" = "1"
4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan
5. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{BAD4551D-9B24-42cb-9BCD-818CA2DA7B63}
6. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyOverride" = ""
7. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{BAD4551D-9B24-42cb-9BCD-818CA2DA7B63}
8. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:5555"

Don't Hesitate to Seek Professional Help
In case, you're unable to work properly with windows registry settings, it is best to take help from a well experienced professional. This is important because the antivirus live virus is a dangerous virus and is hard to clean from a computer system, if your windows registry is not deleted properly. And even a small mistake in settings of windows registry will make your pc nonoperational. Going to a repair shop is always the best option as you can get your pc properly cleaned, scanned and serviced.