Ghost Antivirus Removal Guide
Do you know what Ghost Antivirus is?
DESCRIPTION
Ghost Antivirus is a rogue anti-spyware application. Ghost Antivirus has been created to con and coerce PC users into purchasing its full version. Ghost Antivirus tends to spread via malicious Trojan infections, malicious downloads or it can be downloaded directly from its affiliated website. Similarly to most rogue programs, once inside a computer system, Ghost Antivirus will conduct a fake system scan. The scan will report fabricated results of an infestation of malware on the computer in question, followed by an excessive display of multiple pop-up advertisements. All results concluded from the Ghost Antivirus scan are not to be trusted, and be sure to NOT fall prey to these tactics of persuasion.
In non-techie terms:
DO NOT purchase this rogue application. The presence of Ghost Antivirus on a PC could very likely result in slow system operations, browser redirections and the disabling of Task Manager and System Restore. One should remove this dubious application as soon as it has been detected!
Aliases: GhostAntivirus, Ghost.Antivirus, Ghost Antivirus 2010.
Ghost Antivirus Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions
Ghost Antivirus Manual Removal Instructions
This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Ghost Antivirus manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that the infection will be removed completely. So read the 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 Ghost Antivirus Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall the infection if found. - To stop Ghost Antivirus 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 processes:
GhostAntivirusInstall_33_0_deleted[1].exe
GhostAV.exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”. - To Unregister Ghost Antivirus DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these DLLs:
There are no dll's.
To locate the DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type Ghost Antivirus and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the 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 Ghost Antivirus 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 registry keys: - 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 Ghost Antivirus Directories.
To find infection directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following directories:
There are no directories.
Right-click on the named folder and select Delete.A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the selected folder and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting a folder could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes. - To remove Ghost Antivirus icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
You’ve completed the manual removal instructions!
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