How to remove Antivirus 7 or Antivirus7 (Uninstall instructions)

Antivirus 7 or Antivirus7 is a fake antivirus application that also known as “rogue antispyware” program. It looks like a real antivirus program, but unlike it, can not remove viruses, worms and trojans, as well as protect your computer from possible infections. Antivirus 7 is created with one purpose, to force you to buy its full version.

When Antivirus 7 is installed and started, it first step registers itself in the Windows registry to run automatically when Windows starts. Further, the rogue will imitate a system scan and label legitimate Windows files and not existing files as infections that will not be fixed unless you first purchase the program. Do not rely on these results, as they are, and besides, the scanning process – it is a fake. Purpose they have one, to force you to believe that your computer is infected. So you can freely ignore all that Antivirus 7 will show you.

While Antivirus 7 is running, it can block execution of other programs as an attempt to scare you into thinking that your computer in danger. The program will also flood your computer with nag screens, fake security alerts and notifications from your Windows taskbar. Some of the alerts:

Trojan:W32/Inject Activity Detected
Trojan:W32/Inject is a large family of malware that secretly
makes changes to the Windows Registry. Variants in the
family make also makes changes to other running processes.

Attention! Threats found!
Attention! 27 threats found!

Last but not least, Antivirus 7 will also install a malicious add-on (UpdateExplorer.dll) to Internet Explorer. The add-on will hijack Internet Explorer so that it will randomly show a warning page with the “Warning! Visiting this site may harm your computer!” header.

However, all of these alerts, warnings and notifications are fake and like false scan results supposed to scare you into purchasing so-called “full” version of Antivirus 7. You should ignore all of them!

As you can see Antivirus 7 is very dangerous and can lead to a complete paralysis of your computer, as well as leakage of your personal data in the hands of the authors of the malicious program. Need as quickly as possible to check your computer and remove all found components of this fake antivirus program. Use the removal guide below to remove Antivirus 7 from your computer for free.

More screen shoots of Antivirus 7

Symptoms in a HijackThis Log

O2 – BHO: &UpdateCheck.dll – {E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B} – C:\Windows\System32\UpdateExplorer.dll
O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [AV7] C:\Program Files\AV7\antivirus7.exe

Use the following instructions to remove Antivirus 7 (Uninstall instructions)

Step 1. Disable malicious add-on.

Run Internet Explorer. Click Tools -> Manage Add-ons. Select UpdateCheck.dll addon.

Click disable, click OK and click OK to close Manage Add-ons window. Close Internet Explorer and run it once again.

Step 2. Remove Antivirus 7.

Download MalwareBytes Anti-malware (MBAM). Close all programs and Windows on your computer.

Double Click mbam-setup.exe to install the application. When the installation begins, keep following the prompts in order to continue with the installation process. Do not make any changes to default settings and when the program has finished installing, make sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, then click Finish.

If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.

Once the program has loaded you will see window similar to the one below.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Window

Select Perform Quick Scan, then click Scan, it will start scanning your computer for Antivirus 7 infection. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.

When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. You will see a list of infected items similar as shown below. Note: list of infected items may be different than what is shown in the image below.

Malwarebytes Anti-malware, list of infected items

Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected for start Antivirus 7 removal process. When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to Restart.

Note 1: if you can not download, install, run or update Malwarebytes Anti-malware, then follow the steps: Malwarebytes won`t install, run or update – How to fix it.

Note 2: if you need help with the instructions, then post your questions in our Spyware Removal forum.

Note 3: your current antispyware and antivirus software let the infection through ? Then you may want to consider purchasing the FULL version of MalwareBytes Anti-malware to protect your computer in the future.

Antivirus 7 creates the following files and folders

C:\Program Files\AV7
C:\WINDOWS\system32\UpdateExplorer.dll
C:\Program Files\AV7\antivirus7.exe

Antivirus 7 creates the following registry keys and values

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B}
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AV7

How to remove Antivirus 7 – Video guide