Comments on: How to remove Antivirus System Pro (Uninstall instructions)

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:20:28 +0000

I was infected with Antivirus Pro spyware yesterday and was able to manually remove it by looking for some help on the Internet. But seems the clean wasn’t done completely as my default Antivirus software Mcafee was still disabled and most importantly explorer won’t launch. Full scan on Mcafee showed some bugs and the spyware icon ont he tray vanished, but explorer would still not launch. I installed Malwarebyte just to give it a try and surprisngly it removed the error, which i didn’t expect. It clearly shows this application is better than Mcafee. Take my word and run a full scan on Malwarebyte.

Jack

By: Patrik

Patrik — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:42:02 +0000

Please ask for help in our Spyware removal forum.

By: you

you — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:51:04 +0000

Hey if you cant run exe’s try right clicking on the icon and pressing “start” instead of open. this worked for me. but now ive run Spywaredoctor, malwarebytes, avast, and hijack this and removed the damn thing, but it still keeps popping up. I cant find any of the files that the first poster suggested. Please help

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:31:41 +0000

I couldn’t run any files even after renaming to explorer.exe, or download antivirus tools. I followed Ben’s instructions (Dec. 6), and Combofix did the trick. Afterward HijackThis and MalwareBytes didn’t find anything, PC works fine.

If it comes back, I’ll post here again. BTW I got the malware from Youtube.

By: gregGrosu

gregGrosu — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:59:25 +0000

Alternative to the outlined (and effective) method outlined above, you can head over to the Sophos antivirus site and check out one of their free removal tools. They have some for Conficker as well that are quite comprehensive.

By: Patrik

Patrik — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:49:06 +0000

ruby, make a new topic in our Spyware removal forum and post your HijackThis log to it.

By: ruby

ruby — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:34:26 +0000

I don’t find any lines begining with o4 finishing with system.exe after I run the scan as instructed. There is certainly a virus there what to do next. Help please

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:37:57 +0000

I hope the peice of shit that created this dies of third degree burns from a bic lighter after being sodomized by an elephant.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:33:14 +0000

If you can’t run any EXE file do this.
Download combofix on another computer and copy it over tot he infected one onto the desktop.
Create a shortcut to Combofix on the desktop also.
Copy the shortcut to the startup folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\”User name here”\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Once copied reboot the computer, Combofix will run on startup.
Follow the prompts for Combofix and once the scan is completed restart and run Malwarebytes or any other good anti malware/antivirus program.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:25:57 +0000

Easy to remove if you logon as different user. I had PC with this and when I logged on as hidden admin account I could do anything and install malware removal software.

Hope this will help a little bit!

Marcin