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Advanced Virus Remover Removal Guide & Information

Published by admin on June 1, 2009 07:29 am under Spyware Help

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Do you know what Advanced Virus Remover is?

DESCRIPTION

Advanced Virus Remover is a fake computer parasite remover program designed to use aggressive techniques to force computer users into purchasing a full version of the deceitful application. Advanced Virus Remover, once installed, attempts to scare you into thinking that you have multiple computer infections. Not only are the warnings and popup alerts from Advanced Virus Remover fake, but the full version of Advanced Virus Remover does nothing extra from the free version to “fix” any of the issues.

Advanced Virus Remover may be installed through a Trojan infection without asking for permission or downloaded from the www.advancedvirusremover.com website. Advanced Virus Remover may also scan your system returning several parasite results which are all fake.

In non-techie terms:
Advanced Virus Remover is basically a rogue anti-spyware program. Having Advanced Virus Remover on your system could risk damage or compromising personal information. It is very important to never purchase the Advanced Virus Remover application or you would have wasted your money on a bogus program.

AdvancedVirusRemover.com website image:

Aliases: Advanced Virus Remover, AdvancedVirus Remover, Advanced VirusRemover, AdvancedVirusRemover, www.advancedvirusremover.com.

Advanced Virus Remover Removal Guide & Information Automatic Removal Instructions

Advanced Virus Remover Manual Removal Instructions

This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Advanced Virus Remover manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that Advanced Virus Remover will be removed completely. So read the Advanced Virus Remover removal steps carefully and good luck.

Before you start: Close all programs and Internet browsers. Also back up your computer in case you make a mistake and your computer stops working.

Uninstall Advanced Virus Remover Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall Advanced Virus Remover if found.
To stop Advanced Virus Remover processes (view process removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type taskmgr. The click the Processes tab and you’ll see a list of running processes.
Search and stop these Advanced Virus Remover processes:
AVR.exe
SetupAdvancedVirusRemover[1].exe
PAVRM.exe
setup[1].exe, winupdate.exe
SetupAdvancedVirusRemover[1].exe, PAVRM.exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”.
To Unregister Advanced Virus Remover DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these Advanced Virus Remover DLLs:
There are no dll's.

To locate the Advanced Virus Remover DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type Advanced Virus Remover and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the Advanced Virus Remover DLL path, go to Start and then click on Run. In the Run command box, type cmd, and then click on OK.
To locate the exact DLL path, type cd in order to change the current directory. To display the contents of the directory, use the dir command. To remove the DLL file type regsvr32 /u FILENAME.dll (FILENAME is the name of the file that you want to unregister).
To unregister Advanced Virus Remover registry keys (view registry keys removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type regedit > press OK.
Edit the value (on the right pane) by right-clicking on it and selecting the Modify option. Select the Delete option.
Search and delete these Advanced Virus Remover registry keys:
winupdate.exe Advanced Virus Remover
If your homepage has been changed, go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > click on the General > click Use Default under Home Page. Add the your desired default homepage, then click Apply > click OK. Open a new web browser to check that you have your desired default homepage.
Remove Advanced Virus Remover Directories.
To find Advanced Virus Remover directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following Advanced Virus Remover directories:
There are no directories.

Right-click on the Advanced Virus Remover folder and select Delete.
A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder Advanced Virus Remover and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting Advanced Virus Remover could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes.
To remove Advanced Virus Remover icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.

You’ve completed the Advanced Virus Remover manual removal instructions!
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