Home Antivirus 2010 Removal Guide and Information
Do you know what Home Antivirus 2010 is?
DESCRIPTION
Home Antivirus 2010 is a bogus security program that was found to be similar to PC Security 2009 and a clone of WinReanimator, which are both rogue anti-spyware programs. Home Antivirus 2010 uses some of the same misleading tactics of WinReanimator to force you into purchasing a full version of the program. Home Antivirus 2010 may also be an updated version of Home Antivirus 2009.
Home Antivirus 2010 may be spread through the Trojan called Trojan-Downloader.braviax, which could automatically install Home Antivirus 2010 without actions from you or the computer’s administrator. Once Home Antivirus 2010 is installed, it is known to display fake alert messages and conduct system scans that returns bogus results. In addition, one of the alert messages reads similar to the following:
“WARNING! Home Antivirus 2010 has found 33 useless and UNWANTED files on your computer!
- 21 of those items are considered critical privacy compromising content
- 9 of those items are considered medium privacy threats
- 3 of those items are considered to be junk content of low privacy threats
Personal data at the reach of anyone’s hand
Internet history records available
Compromising and adult material stored on your system
Chat sessions’ logs and personal Emails easily reachable
You need to register Home Antivirus 2010 to clean the unwanted files found. Click “Register now” button below to obtain the license and remove useless and compromising material from your PC.”
In non-techie terms:
Home Antivirus 2010 is not a trusted program. Do not use or purchase Home Antivirus 2010 for any reason. Removal of Home Antivirus 2010 is necessary to prevent further damage to your computer.
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Aliases: Home Antivirus 2010, HomeAntivirus 2010, HomeAntivirus2010, www.homeantivirus2010.com.
Home Antivirus 2010 Removal Guide and Information Automatic Removal Instructions
Home Antivirus 2010 Manual Removal Instructions
This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Home Antivirus 2010 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 Home Antivirus 2010 Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall the infection if found. - To stop Home Antivirus 2010 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:
HomeAntivirus2010.exe
AV2010.exe
QW2010.exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”. - To Unregister Home Antivirus 2010 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 Home Antivirus 2010 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 Home Antivirus 2010 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 Home Antivirus 2010 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 Home Antivirus 2010 icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
You’ve completed the manual removal instructions!
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Thank you so much, I was beginning to fall for their slick interface and similarity to many true antivirus software programs. I followed the first set of instructions and homeantivirus2010 was still running, but when I followed the next set of instructions everything was removed (just focus on only deleting homeanti… Stuff, if that’s all you delete you’ll be fine)
thank you so much …this is a big help…i was able to delete and uninstall this terrible thing