Antivirus 360 Descriptions:
Antivirus 360, (abrv. AV360), also referred as Antivirus360 by some people, is the latest and hottest counterfeit software that created to ruin our computers. It is undoubtedly one of the worst worms we have seen in a long while. Nevertheless, do NOT confuse Antivirus 360 with Norton Antivirus 360. Norton Antivirus 360 is a legit product, while Antivirus 360 is a rogue or fake antivirus product. If you have not already recognized this, Antivirus 360 is essentially a copy of the infamous Antivirus 2009, but rebranded itself to mislead the users. Antivirus 360 has the same type of destruction with a different mask to disguise the innocence. Antivirus 360 usually comes up after you installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus. Sometimes you can get infected by visiting some malicious websites.
Antivirus 360 normally generates fake and misleading system popup error messages so end-users will be tricked into purchase Antivirus 360. Likely fake security popup alerts include, “Attention! If your computer is struck by the spyware, you could suffer data loss, erratic PC behaviour, PC freezes and creahes. Detect and Remove virus before they damage your computer! Antivirus 360 will perform a 100% FREE and quick scan of your computer for Viruses, Spyware and Adware. Do you want to install Antivirus 360 to scan your computer for malware now? (Recommended)”
It is very critical to remove Antivirus 360 and all its components. To effectively get rid of Antivirus 360, we have created a manual removal instructions. As always, make sure that you back up all important data before you proceed. The removal process requires some patience and willingness to experiment. Don’t get frustrated. You will learn a lot along the way. Here are the things that you need to do in order to remove Antivirus 360.
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility
Manual Antivirus 360 Removal Instructions:
Stop Antivirus 360 Processes:
(Learn how to do this)
av360.exe
antivirus360.exe
Find and Delete Antivirus 360 Files:
(Learn how to do this)
av360.exe
antivirus360.exe
Antivirus 360.lnk
uninstall Antivirus 360.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Antivirus 360.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Antivirus 360
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Antivirus 360\Antivirus 360.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Antivirus 360\Help.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Antivirus 360\Registration.lnk
Remove Antivirus 360 Registry Values:
(Learn how to do this)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run Antivirus 360
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\13376694984709702142491016734454
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “13376694984709702142491016734454″
Guys,
I sent an email to them and received this reply.
Dear customer,
Please follow my instructions to uninstall Antivirus 360:
1.Open My computer, choose Disk C;
2.Find the folder Program files / Common files / System / Uninstall ; 3.Run the file Uninstall_A360.exe
After that our product will be removed.
Feel free to contact us if you need any help Alex Schmidt Antivirus Customer Support Specialist
Best of luck
Dez
Antivirus 360 is so stupid! It popped out of nowhere and got in somehow!! I NEED TO GET RID OF IT! I can’t go to any sites… except google and a few other sites! I CAN’T EVEN GO TO SAFE SITES!!!!!!! HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! It’s ruining my life!!! UGH! ANTIVIRUS 360 IS HORRID!
thanks so much! you are a saint! i’m glad i read that! it worked perfectly! thanks for posting that!
Thankyou everyone for your help
ill pray: )
AV360 is the most horrible virus I have ever encountered….it downloaded itself onto my computer- I hadn’t even clicked anything! A huge thank you must be extended to those who published the removal process….I thought I was going to have to buy a new computer!!!!!
to the person who said they don’t know how to get to their administrator settings… there’s a very simple way, when you reboot your computer before you log in click control alt delete, which brings up the option to change users, enter Administrator, and most people who don’t know they have it on there will also find that there is NO password needed just click enter then you can go into your user settings and change the one you normally use to have administrative rights… hope that helps… i’m still trying to kill AV360 so i’m going thru all the steps have a great day…
to remove that horrible AV360 yo can use system restore is the simple thing to remove that
to prevent infect that AV360 :
stop surfing porno site
help, this av360 drives me crazy. whatever i do i cant get rid of it, and with all these useless comments like using the task manager ect, well, how if it does not find the processes that the spyware causes? anyways, i only want to post a comment here for those jerks who get a kick from writing viruses and destroy thus the work of other people on their pcs. please, be man enough to drop that kiddy shit and face me in real life, i would dearly like to skin you alive and then do other nice things to you bastards. if you are good in use of computers, use them for the benefit of people, write anti virus software, don´t fuck up my pc. the day i will meet a virus programmer is the day i will commit murder. and i mean it. it all makes me sick sick sick.#
I tried this and it worked great the first time. Thanks! BA
By Hua on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
I am so lucky that System Restore works fine.
This is what I did to remove Antivirus 360:
1) Restart computer into safe mode. (Press F8 immediately after RAM check in Pre-bootup)
2) Go to Start -> Programs (or Program Files) -> Accessaries -> System Tools
3) Then click on System Restore.
4) It will open a new window for System Restore. Just pick the “recommended†restore point.
5) Bingo! Antivirus 360 should be removed after a reboot.
anyone have a straight forward way to get rid of this AV360, if you’ve had it you know what i mean,any help pls
ok so, im not that smart with computers so I struggled a bit with the whole process and finally got it. I saw the little av360 icons at the bottom right corner of my screen disapear. So I thought I was safe but then I went to the internet to try it out and the same page came up that said “Internet Explorer Warning – visiting this web site may harm your computer”
Any help?
how much do it cost
My father-in-law got this and I had to try and troubleshoot this over the phone – what a pain! This post solved it for us – THANK YOU!!
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By Hua on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply
I am so lucky that System Restore works fine.
This is what I did to remove Antivirus 360:
1) Restart computer into safe mode. (Press F8 immediately after RAM check in Pre-bootup)
2) Go to Start -> Programs (or Program Files) -> Accessories -> System Tools
3) Then click on System Restore.
4) It will open a new window for System Restore. Just pick the “recommended†restore point.
5) Bingo! Antivirus 360 should be removed after a reboot.
FYI to those with Norton Protection with Norton Security System, Norton neither protects against nor removes Anti virus. In addition, the Symantec website does not even seem to have this one in their databases. I had just fully upgraded my wife’s Norton and run three successive scans. I then turned the computer over to my wife and went to bed. She clicked on a popup window and now I am spending a day manually removing something that should have been caught by Norton.
The previous instructions do not remove the Browser Helper Object. this is what causes IE to keep displaying the av360 page. Delete the following key from the registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{D263FA6D-84CC-48A8-9AF6-C664362B7A5B}]
@=”&Research”
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{D263FA6D-84CC-48A8-9AF6-C664362B7A5B}\InprocServer32]
@=”C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\winconfig.dll”
“ThreadingModel”=”Apartment”
The IE Add-ons now show only the Office 2003 Browser Extension. The Research Browser Helper Object is gone.
To go one step further, open a command prompt type “regsvr32 /u winconfig.dll”. It returned an error, so I decided to rename the file. As soon as I tried to do that, Symantec deleted it. Apparently when the dll is registered, Symantec, Spysweeper, and Spybot Search & Destroy cannot see it.
That is one nasty little piece of malware.
dont fukin look at porn! *ewwwy face* my dad did and he has no idea how to use a comp so we got it!! im fukin 14 years old and trying to get rid of it BY MYSELF! Cuz no one else knoes how to!!
AAAAAHH
i find no point of my comment but meh
Dude, dont worry, the FBI caught the bastard and he’s serving a life sentence.
HUA. DO WHAT HUA SAYS. It fixed my laptop and got rid of Antivirus 360! Thanks HUA!!
Norton now knows how fix antivirus 360. All you have to do is pay them $99.99 and they’ll walk you through it. I know because I just paid them. Let’s see all you have to do as an Anti Virus Company is wait until a real tough virus or worm appears then don’t stop it for your customer even though you’ve known about it for months and when your customer gets the virus tell them that the product that you have sold them can’t fix it but if you pay us another $100 we can help you get rid of it. Norton has lost a customer for life.
Omg.
I Went to download photoshop and it was working perfectly until this antivirus360 poped up.i guess the photoshop thing gave me the virus. it is the most awfull thing ever.
im only 12 yearsold and i got a new computer. im kinda smart on the computer i could figure most things out. but this its impossible. -.- i put up my virus scan up.. didnt work. i think its really rude for people to make viruse..-.-it really sucks.. i guess ill try reboting it..
It happened- while in safe mode the computer shut off- now it won’t come alive there’s power, green lights on key boards but nothing on screen….dark. I would like help on getting the computer on so I can get rid of 360.
HELP,
ALIEN
though the popping doesn’t appear always, maybe after 10-15 mins.
I know what you mean. got this sucker about a month ago even though i have Norton anti virus. They gave me some cockamamie story about how this 360 is a brand new virus, and I said “Well what the heck am I paying Norton for if they can’t protect me. NORTON IS HISTORY!!!!
i need help i got this antvirus 360 i cant even do my hw i need to longin places it wont allow me 2 enter it goes then shows blank page help pleaseee!!!
The story of my struggle and semi-victory over Antivirus 360
Hi,
I am under the impression that I contracted this thing after visiting a sketchy torrent site. I have no idea HOW I contracted it, but needless to say I’m pissed.
Every 15 minutes, I would have one pop up from Internet explorer telling me to get their product, which I obviously ignored and closed. Fortunately, even though this occurred regularly every 15 minutes, the number of pop ups would never exceed 1. So that was nice. But it was still annoying.
I used AVG antivirus and Lavasoft’s ad-aware anti-spyware software for starters, did some research on the nefarious bug, used my hosts file to make the pop up a laughable empty blank screen. Looks like I have the fiend checked and cornered.
I looked up files in the system registry, looked up processes in task manager, files in sys 32, couldn’t find a thing – perhaps my lavasoft ad-aware removed all of them for me. I am uncertain.
I do notice that the names of these malicious files are not necessarily the ones previously mentioned. For instance, I could not find out what pp2.exe did for the life of me anywhere on the net, but upon deleting pp2.exe, the pop up prompts (blank due to the hosts file) disappeared. I feel as though I have struck a decisive blow against the fiend.
I also found pp2.exe and dll32.exe (both sketch files) in my system 32. This is odd seeing as to how I used windows search to look for all fiels created from March 9th to March 9th and it somehow missed these, which, according to their properties, were created March 9th.
Having felt victorious, I decided to restart the computer, and if I had any more troubles, I’d resort to a system restore.
Big mistake.
Upon restarting my computer, not only were sketchy processes like pp2.exe, dll32.exe, and rn.tmp running again, but worse still – my FIREFOX was hijacked. FUCK! I googled antivirus 360 removal, and when I clicked on a link, I was redirected to some wierdass site. Same applied for every other link! Somehow, the leviathan rose from the dead and held a tenuous grasp around my throat!
The next time I restarted, firefox stopped working altogether. This monster has deprived me of the ability to use the internet against it!
I attempt the syttem restore. THE MONSTER HAS DESTROYED ALL BUT ONE CHECKPOINT – March 9th 2.10am, just a little more than one hour BEFORE I noticed the anomalies. It SHOULD work, even if it just barely. My fingers are crossed.
My heart shrieks in agony as I get the mesasage, “Your computer cannot be restored to March 9th 2.15am, NO changes have been made to your computer”
What demonic virus am I dealing with? Such that it torments the mind and scoffs at my every apparently vain attempt to subdue it?!
It is only when I restart the computer in safe mode than I am able to perform the system restore. I do not expect to win. But in a sudden twist of fate, IT SUCCEEDS!
Is all restored? Almost – I still have a suspicious list of procceses in my windows task manager – for one thing, I have about 5 svchost.exe’s running. That can’t be right.
Although there is something more grave than that. As if Antivirus 360 taunted, “scorched earth policy, bitch” it would appear my firefox has been rendered unoperational.
Currently I type this via google chrome, but firefox does not work. The error message:
“The proxy server is refusing connections
Firefox is configured to use a proxy server that is refusing connections.
* Check the proxy settings to make sure that they are correct.
* Contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working.”
My guess is that my firefox is tainted, and my university firewall refuses it.
I got so desperate that I paid Norton to remore access my laptop and remove the AV360. Needed 2 tries before it was completely gone. Be sutre that the file is removed from the registry or it will lurk in the background. This is hitech extortion!!!
An AV360 key I encountered is “3630D6FF0ED7A65AC758D9CB181021F0″
fuck the antivirus360
I picked up AV360 this morning and got rid of it by starting up in safe mode then did a system restore. So far so good! Fortunately I quickly realised something was wrong and didn’t go through the full install but even so it caused havoc in my laptop.
I’m disgusted that people create these viruses to attack our computers, have these people nothing better to do with their time? they’re pathetic!
ok, so different things seem to work for different people but after trying various things I seem to have stumbled on what worked for me. First I tried the manual Ctrl-Shift-Esc method and though this works for the short term, every time I rebooted, AV360 would come back. So, here is what I did. I went to my desktop screen and then linked to My Computer. Then used the Search Option. Went to All Files and Folders when asked what I wanted to search and typed in AV360. My PC did a scan and came up with two of the virus files. Then I simply deleted them. Still suspicious, I turned my computer off to see if AV360 would return and lo and behold it didn’t! Now, I am far from a computer wiz so I found this groping around in the dark, so to speak. Hope it works for you as well! Also, if you bastards who create this sort of thing are out their reading this, I would like for you to know what pathetic little maggots you are! You can’t get a grip on your own life and choose to try and ruin others! Just simply pathetic…
1. By Comodidit on Dec 11, 2008
2. By Comodidit on Dec 11, 2008
3. By charlie on Dec 12, 2008
4. By Hua on Dec 12, 2008
5. By Yesman on Dec 13, 2008
6. By ali barakat on Dec 14, 2008
7. By JoeySantos on Dec 18, 2008
8. By gibor (israel) on Dec 19, 2008
9. By James on Dec 20, 2008
10. By AnswerMan on Dec 29, 2008
11. By Joe on Mar 9, 2009
Thanx you guys. Finally I rid of it. It was attacked on 8th and today 11th, these 3 days was horrible for me. My story also same as you all. I tried these 11 guys suggestion. I’m much thankful to you all. I found there is no perfect solution. You have to keep on try. I couldn’t sys. restore. But Hua was right. My case most of done by spyhunter and Malwarebytes and I did manually. Same time I read this thread 3 times top to bottom. Now my laptop work slowly. And trying to online scan by trendmicro.
Thank you all. Those who are getting this problem please check all post and do it. Sure the goal is yours.
Chao..
I encountered the following key for av360 on 3/11/2009:
C2B61C707FD33DFAC353B76ADA635FD4
hi i have just been attacked by antivirus, i started to down load it or down loaded it i am not to sure it. it got to the payment page and i decided against payingso shut it down, could someone tell me if i have been fully attacked.
I have followed all the seggestions above
to try to get rid of the antivirous 360 folder
and none have worked… i tried from the safe start mode to do a system restore and when i did this it shut down .. then i tried to delete
the file from the c drive in the safe start mode and when i scaned the hidden files it just shut down … the file never showed up in the c drive. any segestions anyone?
goerge
I was charged $79.90 for antivirus 360 application! I didn’t agree to that amount. My computer was working perfect fine, the now this **** **** pissing me off always popping up. I can get anything done. This is nothing more than extortion. Antivirus360 is a huge hoax and it somehow got onto my desktop, now I am furiously trying to find a way to remove it from my computer without totally crashing it.
doesn’t have anything to do with porno- surfing popular sites and using freeware such as free downloading software, free game sites (gamevance was one I noticed) you get a pop up that looks official, the icon looks like windows security center so of course you’ll click if you don’t know enough about it. Just remember the answer you think is the right one is always wrong and thats how it downloads! hit Ctl+alt+delete and end task on the popup. I also suggest if you aren’t sure how to use your freeware music/video service that you not bother with it, it takes downloading the wrong thing once to lose everything on your computer-not to mention you are allowing others who have the knowledge to access your computer and files. AV360 whatever you call it it has several names all just as annoying as the other. The solution is around the corner just wait before reloading if you want to save your stuff. Until then, it’s just going to be a longer drawn out process to fix until there is a fix- and when there is a fix- they’ll just change it again to something worse- thats how it works!
duds and dudets do not get or download this cause u will get a serious hedac because this is a very fraude and %$@#ed up virus so whatever you do dont download or go to any sites that may srew you over.
yo anybody email me at badbman@hotmail.cm
i just did sysyem retore and it worked for me…..try that first…it totally got rid of that crap
whoops “system restore”
Finally got it. Thanks to all of the help from everyone. I would search and destroy all of the AV360 files and registry values I could, but then the darn thing would just block websites. I tried restoring the system, but it wouldn’t let me. I started reading this stuff from the bottom up to get the latest tricks that worked. I did as dirwin said on 3-4-09 and found one of those registry files present. I then re-searched files and folders for AV360, then the registry… and BINGO!!! Gone!!! Time for a toast. Here’s to the person who locates the person responsible for this so I can remove his fingers one joint at a time until all he can type with is his elbows.
Holy! I guess I’m far too lucky.
In the beginning, I let it runs the scanning process. But smart of me that I doubt the speed of scanning, “how could it finish scanning in only 10~20 seconds?”, and then it tells me that I got hundreds of Trojans(number like 157 Trojans or 329 Trojans etc).
And then I immediately search for information about it, and find out that it INDEED IS A VIRUS!!!
Thanks for all the websites that helped me! And lucky for me~
God bless you brian lol,i did what you recommended and it worked.i encountered this virus when searching for walkthroughs on the game resident evil 5,i restored my pc to a day prior and it seems to have disappeared,ps avast is a REALLY good antivirus,it notified me instantly and besides,i had alarm bells ringing inside my head as soon as this thing entered my pc.instantly googled it and now all is well thanks to your advice.
I cannot believe it… A360 caught me unawares last night. I was trying to figure something out then this pops up with 50million viruses, etc and I allow it in assuming it was an update from Norton 360.
I found the A360 file in program files but it wont let me delete – permission issues.
I turned off my internet access, uninstalled Norton, reinstalled and selected to scan during install. Windows detected A360 tried to Quick Launch so i deleted that so the pop ups stopped.
I went back and deleted every trace of A360 and this time it allowed me. at first my ie seemed ok then i visited one of the sites i tried to visit last night and A360 was back eventhough I’d deleted all the files…
Dirwin – I went to delete the registry key and its all sorted now… thanks!
ps. If you have firefox, you can use that whilst you try and sort this rubbish out. zero impact on firefox.
I followed the advice that “stacey” gave on 2/21/’09. It worked for me.
I was the unlucky recepient on this ugly thing twice in the pass week. This is what I did to remove it.
.Open My computer, choose Disk C;
2.Find the folder Program files / Common files / System / Uninstall ;
3.Run the file Uninstall_A360.exe I had e-mailed the company and they told me to do this. it worked immediately.
You just may have to uninstall it twice for it to be fully removed.
Good Luck
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility, dose it work on the AV360??
I just spent two days trying to find and uninstall all the av360′s and stuff off of my computer and it kept coming back. I then went to best buy where they quoted me at $200.00 to get it all off. I wouldn’t fork over the money, came home and went to the “backup and restore center” on my Sony vaio with Vista and restored it to the way it was 3 days ago (pre-virus). This fixed it in three minutes and I didnt lose any documents.
Please! I want to get rid of Av360 but do not know how.
It keeps interrupting my work on this computer.
AV360 is a real pain.
to remove Control alt del -close av360 process
Left click on screen shortcut /click
properties/find target-then delete all files .
then delete shortcut. Remove all references to AV360 from Start-empty recycle bin then restart.I use AVG Antivirus/spy ver 8.5 free download.Failing all else return to previous working date.
I had AV360 on my computer with all the popups interrupting all the time. I read alot of info about how to get rid of it. I’m not computer savy, so I went for the easiest “fix”. I downloaded the free scan of SpyHunter and the scan found AV360 all over the place on my computer as well as lots of other bad stuff. Then I purchased SpyHunter for $29.99 for 6 mos. and used it to remove all the hidden dangers to my computer – including AV360. It only takes a few minutes and AV360 is GONE!! I highly recommend SpyHunter.