Home Personal Antivirus Removal Guide
Home Personal Antivirus also known as HomePersonalAntivirus, HomePersonal Antivirus, Home PersonalAntivirus, is a direct clone of XP Deluxe Protector, WinPCAntivirus, WinPCDefender, XP Police Antivirus, IE-Security, win Defender 2009 as well as Total Secure 2009. Home Personal Antivirus will try to trick you into purchasing the full version, but you need to remember never to part with your money no matter how much it tries to scare you. Home Personal Antivirus may run fake scans and generate fake scan reports in order to try to trick you. The only malicious threat which you have running on your machine is Home Personal Antivirus itself. Home Personal Antivirus may also open security holes which exist within your web browser, and will proceed to install other additional malicious malware onto your system. This is not all that will happen; unfortunately Home Personal Antivirus also runs the risk of invading all your privacy and passwords. Do not buy anything, download anything or install anything. If you suspect that you may have Home Personal Antivirus on your computer, and then you need to remove it immediately, don’t hesitate for one moment to make it go away.
Home Personal Antivirus Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions
Home Personal Antivirus Manual Removal Instructions
This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Home Personal Antivirus manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that Home Personal Antivirus will be removed completely. So read the Home Personal Antivirus 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 Personal Antivirus Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall Home Personal Antivirus if found. - To stop Home Personal 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 Home Personal Antivirus processes:
homeav.exe
Home Personal Antivirus.LNK
install[1].exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”. - To Unregister Home Personal Antivirus DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these Home Personal Antivirus DLLs:
There are no dll's.
To locate the Home Personal Antivirus DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type Home Personal Antivirus and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the Home Personal Antivirus 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 Personal 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 Home Personal Antivirus 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 Personal Antivirus Directories.
To find Home Personal Antivirus directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following Home Personal Antivirus directories:
There are no directories.
Right-click on the Home Personal Antivirus folder and select Delete.A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder Home Personal Antivirus and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting Home Personal Antivirus could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes. - To remove Home Personal Antivirus icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
You’ve completed the Home Personal Antivirus manual removal instructions!
I hope this article has helped you solve your Home Personal Antivirus problems. If you want to contribute to this article, post your comment below.
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