Antivirus System Pro Removal Tool

Antivirus System PRO is a fake antivirus application, which is categorized as a Rouge security software. A rouge antivirus software claims to remove the fake existing computer viruses in the computer operating system and installs other scareware into the system. This malware also attempts to scam you to purchase its full version. It is one of the deadliest security threats to the computers. Even if you do not select any of its options like 'yes', 'no', 'install', 'cancel', etc., this malware can sneak pass into the operating system and starts creating various problems like pop-up windows, change in administer setting and slow performance of the PC. Getting yourself the best antivirus system pro removal tool is the best thing that you can do to secure your system. So, how to remove antivirus system pro? Let's find out.

In the quest to know how to remove antivirus system pro, you may come across some other scams like free antivirus system pro removal software advertisements. Most of these advertisements are fake and they cost you a fortune in turn of no protection. Instead of using any fake antivirus software as antivirus system pro removal tool, you can follow some easy steps. Apart from the above mentioned things the computer you may also find several other signs of the antivirus system pro. For instance, when you start the web browser, you get redirected to a totally different page than what you were searching for. You may also get some messages like - The site you are going to may be harmful to your computer and you need to download Antivirus System Pro. Keep in mind that anything that mentions itself as an antivirus system pro removal tool might also be a malicious software itself and hence, don't download it at any cost!

How to Remove Antivirus System Pro Manually

There are various other names of the antivirus system pro like antivirus live, Windows Antivirus, WinPCDefender, AntiSpywareMaster, Internet Antivirus Plus, Internet Security 2010, VSCAN7, Total Security etc. As I said earlier, you can find the answer to the question - "how to get rid of antivirus system pro?" the easiest way.

Remove the Pop-Ups
At first, remove all the pop-up advertisements in order to end the bad processes. These ads won't easily get closed. Hence, press Ctrl + Alt + Delete and choose the Windows Task Manager from the Windows Menu. Now click the "processes" tab in order to find the malware processes. The names of the malware processes include - uninstall.exe (if constantly running), Antivirussystempro.exe and sysguard.exe. Now, disable all the processes with help of the "end process" tab.

Search for Antivirus System Pro
For searching the antivirus system pro in your system, go to the "Start Menu" and click on the "Start Search" tab. Search all the files and folders in the C Drive - Local Hard Drive. For that, type "Antivirus System PRO" in the search box and search for the files that are mentioned below:

• c:\WINDOWS\system32\iehelper.dll
• %ProgramFiles%\Antivirus System PRO\mbase.vdb
• %ProgramFiles%\Antivirus System PRO\queue.vdb
• %ProgramFiles%\Antivirus System PRO\quarantine.vdb
• %ProgramFiles%\Antivirus System PRO\conf.cfg

If none of the above mentioned files appear, then you need to search for the individual files. For that, search and delete the folder - %ProgramFiles%\Antivirus System PRO\

Backup the Registry
It is mandatory for you to create a backup file of your entire system registry. You can do that by generating a system restoration point. To do that, go to the "Start Menu" - "All Programs" - "Accessories" - "System Tools" - "System Restore" - "Create a Restore Point" - "Next" tab. Now save the restore point of the registry with a recognizable name and click on the "Create" tab.

Remove Files from Registry
To remove the files from the system registry, go to the "Start Menu" and search for "regedit". Then hit the "Enter" key or click "Ok". Once you do that, the windows registry will appear right away. Then, select "Edit" - "Find" and then search for the following files. Once you locate these files, right click on each of the files and select either "Delete" or "Modify". These files include:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Antivirus System PRO
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Antivirus System PRO
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Antivirus System PRO"
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad "ieModule"
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AvScan
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "system tool"
• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{BAD4551D-9B24-42cb-9BCD-818CA2DA7B63}
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{BAD4551D-9B24-42cb-9BCD-818CA2DA7B63}

Search for the DLL Files
For those who found c:\WINDOWS\system32\iehelper.dll in the processes, need to remove the DLL files as well. To do that, go to "Start Menu" and search for "cmd" and click "Ok". Now type "cd" - SPACE - type c:\WINDOWS\system32\iehelper.dll
Once you locate the file, type regsvr32 /u iehelper.dll and hit "Enter".

Now search again for the "Antivirus System Pro" and "SYSGUARD" for one more time, in order to make sure that all the malware files are deleted. Lastly, restart the computer and see if the pop-ups still appear. Remember that antivirus system pro is a rouge security software and it can generate new user files. Thus, you need to perform an additional research for the file names that might have got updated.