Personal Antivirus Removal Guide
Do you know what Personal Antivirus is?
DESCRIPTION
Personal Antivirus is a fake anti-spyware program lurking over the internet. Personal Antivirus may be installed automatically by a Trojan such as Zlob or Vundo without permission from you. Personal Antivirus was also found to be a clone of another rogue anti-spyware program called Internet Antivirus Pro.
Both Personal Antivirus and Internet Antivirus Pro are worthless programs that do not remove a lick of spyware. You cannot trust Personal Antivirus for your security needs. Personal Antivirus is a very annoying program also because of the number of popup messages and system alerts that it displays in hopes of getting you to purchase a full version of Personal Antivirus. Do not fall for this trick or you may be sorry.
In non-techie terms:
Personal Antivirus could potentially cause damage to your computer. It is important to never purchase Personal Antivirus for any reason. Personal Antivirus is a waste of money. Remove it and you do not have to worry about wasting your precious time finding a way to get a refund for buying a useless application.
Aliases: Personal Antivirus, PersonalAntivirus, personal-antivirus.com.
Personal Antivirus Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions
Personal Antivirus Manual Removal Instructions
This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Personal Antivirus manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that Personal Antivirus will be removed completely. So read the 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 Personal Antivirus Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall Personal Antivirus if found. - To stop 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 Personal Antivirus processes:
pav.exe
PersonalAntivirus[1].exe
PersonalAV.exe
Security Software.exe
PAV.exe
Install_2006-40[1].exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”. - To Unregister Personal Antivirus DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these Personal Antivirus DLLs:
wincontrol.dll
To locate the Personal Antivirus DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type Personal Antivirus and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the 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 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 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 Personal Antivirus Directories.
To find Personal Antivirus directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following Personal Antivirus directories:
There are no directories.
Right-click on the Personal Antivirus folder and select Delete.A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder Personal Antivirus and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting Personal Antivirus could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes. - To remove Personal Antivirus icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
You’ve completed the Personal Antivirus manual removal instructions!
I hope this article has helped you solve your Personal Antivirus problems. If you want to contribute to this article, post your comment below.
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I tried everything described above and while it is removed, for some reason when I go into IE, any websites requiring name and password((MMORPG sites, etc)) I still get a blocking command
thing is when I go into Firefox it isn’t there. I don;t know if it is still installed
Please help. I cannot get this annoying pest of a fake antivirus software off of my laptop. I tried doing your first “easy” way and it didn’t work. Then I tried your manual 2nd way and some of the processes in the taskmanager won’t let me delete them. I tried to delete WINLOGON.EXE for instance, and it says it is unable to terminate process because it is a critical system process. Please help in any way you can, I will do anything to get this off of my laptop!
I found this was the only removal instructions I could use without cost. Any company that charges has an interest in ensuring viruses continue (although I am sure not all are so unethical). The only problem I had was that using Windows XP I think I should have gone to safe mode when prompted? instead of rebooting because i missed out on the prompt to ‘replace infected file?’
How can I send a donation to your cause?
I tried it and i still the i dont get what to do please help me!
First a great big thank you, I finally got the software off the computer by using your staps above. I had to do it three times but it worked…
However now when I am on the internet, regardless of the site, it pops up and says site blocked or dangerous and gives me to the option to install the personel antivirus software or continue unprotected. If I choose to continue it keeps pop that up and never lets me go to the web site? Anymore suggestions?
THANKS,
Michelle Creech
I tried the ‘easy’ way to remove, but step 6 did not occur. Also, I couldn’t findstep 9 and 10 , the personal antivirus was not removed. I was wondering if it might be different for Vista?
I will try to do the manual removal, though I’m no expert on computers. Thanks for providing these instructions for free!
Cheers mate, worked like a charm.
I used Spybot S&D First… removed some, registry files were gone. But the pav.exe was still present, just went to C:\\program Files\PersonalAV, deleted the whole folder(shift+delete) (or is it //?)
Well, thanks again. My friend’s happy that the stupid thing is gone now. Rage.
thanx so much for the info! i had been trying things all day!