Antivirus 2008 Descriptions:
Antivirus 2008 , also known as Antivirus2008, is one of the latest counterfeit antispyware that devastates the wolrd wide web. Antivirus 2008 is a variant of XP Antivirus or WinAntivirusPro. Antivirus 2008 usually come up after you installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus. Antivirus 2008 normally generates fake and misleading system popup error messages so end-users will be tricked into purchase Antivirus 2008.
It is very important to remove all the components of of the Antivirus 2008 and all the malware and trojans that it might have come bundle with (such as zlob.trojan, trojan.vundo and Trojan.Downloader). To effectively remove Antivirus 2008, we have created a manual removal instructions which is easy to understand.
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility
Manual Antivirus 2008 Removal Instructions:
Unregister Antivirus 2008 DLL Files:
(Learn how to do this)
shlwapi.dll
wininet.dll
Stop Antivirus 2008 Processes:
(Learn how to do this)
Antivirus 2008.lnk
Uninstall Antivirus.lnk
Antvrs.exe
AntiVirus2008.exe
Find and Delete these Antivirus 2008:
(Learn how to do this)
AntiVirus2008.exe
shlwapi.dll
wininet.dll
Antivirus 2008.lnk
Uninstall Antivirus 2008.lnk
Remove Antivirus 2008 Registry Values:
(Learn how to do this)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Antivirus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\”Antivirus” = “%ProgramFiles%\Antivirus 2008\Antvrs.exe”
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility
thanks much as It got rid of it in safe made, but I am missing start menu items like to get into my C and D drives. Can I do something w/o rebooting?
Can someone please help me get ride of this mother fcker Anti virus 2008 or 2009, Rashe4me@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks guys.
HOW CAN I GET OUT OF ANTIVIRUS ?
the tittle of my virus is ANTIVIRUS 2008 (PROTECT YOUR PC)
not for XP
do i really need to pay for it??
or anything to do..
I was able to delete it thanks to website user suggestions, but the “warning” is still showing up on my desktop (only the warning — it does not run anymore), no matter how many times I try to replace the desktop appearance. Any suggestions?
Running Windows XP service pack 3. I could not open taskmgr using control-alt-delete or run as both methods had been disabled by the virus. I then restarted in safe mode by turning on the computer while holding down the F8 key. Then logged on as Administrator, then went to My Computer, then Program Files then right clicked on all the programs that sounded suspect. After right clicking I went to Properties and looked at the install dates. If they were on the dtae I got the virus I deleted them. Warning, the names have changed and are not the same ones from earlier posts. After this I rebooted normally half the stuff was gone as were the pop ups, but I was still locked out of task manager and the time was still changed to military. So then I rebooted in safe mode and did a system restore to the day before I got the virus. That worked! Lastly I went and manually deleted all the files at the top of this page XP tells you to. Good luck! It worked for me.
Ohhh man, thank you all!
After the 3 hours of furious battle between me
vs Antivirus2008pro, the light forces reign
supreme! Thank you everyone!!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
-ViraeSlayer
Oh My God. Thank You Ching San you are a life saver. I followed your instructions and erased it. I found it under another name a vav.exe. I was going crazy for 4hrs till I found this site.They need to get rid of that Vista Antivirus off the net!
give me free antivirus and remove please
Ching san u roxxxxxxxxxxx!!!!
that bloody thing is vanish from my pc…but…that stupid warning thing still appear..anestion to get rid that warning thing..ouh..that fucking antivirus can change it name.so u have to find by ur self…
i got this virus too yesterday but thanks to the help of alison and ching i could delete this s**t from my computer it was hard actually to find the file in the computer i had to look for the resource then i found it and deleted it from the programs and from the processor,and now i m happy again…Thanks for all of u guys…
I would like to know who created this virus so i can find him and kill him
I cannot find the item ANTVRS.EXE under Process in Windows Task Manager. It’s just not there. Is there anything else that it could be named? I’m so aggravated with this thing right now.
Ok i think i deleted it…What i did was disable its startup by going to Run then typing “msconfig”. Then I went to the startup tab and looked for the item…The name varies. Well I deleted that then I restarted my computer. Then I deleted the folder in program files and deleted all the icons in my start menu. Then I quickly emtied the recycle bin…So far it works…But if it comes back Im gonna find who ever made this shit and shoot him in his face. Now i just need to change that Fugly background. Anyone have any idea’s on how to do that?
holy shit! this is fucking ridiculous. this thing just popped up about an hour ago and i was JUST ABOUT TO BUY IT credit card in hand and everything. but i just had this fucking feeling that something was off. and I google magic-ed that shit and this is the very first thing I found. I’ve tried everything. I’m tired. I found about a thousand files under the shlwapi.dll one and when I deleted them they did except for one and it says my access is denied HELP!!!!! i’m fucking dying here! I don’t know what to do!
So did you get rid of the fusk shit face program antivirus 2008 xp. Its horrible.
hi
antivirus2009 and antispycheck is virus or what ?
and make very low
is really graz
rose what u do to kill this virus?
is antivirus 2009 is virus? why he come evry time and make low the computer plz help me what to do to kill this virus?
thks andrew
can u tell me how to delete this shitting program vista antivirus 2008?I have tried everything?
For those that can not find ANTVRS.EXE file: There are several iterations of this program, my pop up was Ultimate Antivirus 2008 and the process was UAV.exe get it U_ltimate A_nti V_irus folder. The folder and processes will be an acronym of the form you have i.e. Vista Antivirus 2008 has VAV.exe
Hope this helps.
only problem is that wininet.dll and shlwapi.dll are both legitimate windows files. delete the wrong one and … poof. there goes your computer. bloody malware bastards have to name their trash files after windows32 files dont they…. even put them in the same place to make it even harder to distinguish between the good and the bad.
We had the antivirus2008 pop up last night for no reason, luckily we didn;t register or pay for anything- We corrected it after we found this site and comments, mainly from Ching San. We have windows xp and this is what we did to get rid of it.
1. hit start button, then run, then type in taskmgr right click ok
2. find ANTVRS.EXE , then left click on end process tree.
3. Go to recycle bin and delete antivirus file
4.Then go to seach, put in Antivirus2008 to see if it’s anywhere else on your computer. If so,right click and choose delete.
5. Go back to recycle bin and delte this antivirus file(s).
6. Shut down computer, then start again and it should be gone(along with the icon !)
Hi Ching San,
Thank you for the instruction. That was a real tricky nasty one. Now removed. Following your instruction, I only spent a minute to remove.
yi
Hi I deleted the files but the warning is still on my background anyone have a way to take that off?
To the guy that wants to kill the maker of this virus…
It’s the Russian Mob. Seriously.
Hi, ive been infected with this virus before and i thought i got rid of it all, i followed all the manual instructions to get trid off it last time and worked…… for awhile. Till now!!!! its back and better then ever (not) i cant access task manager, my c: drive, system tools, run, cmd prompt or anything. the stupid virus has limited me to nothing….
Where do i start to get rid of this thing?
John , #64 , thank You!
That worked for me !
Steve
omg ive had this virus for weeks now ive been battlng it but it seems that nothing i do works please will someone help me step by step!
I have tried everything that has been posted with nothing accomplished, i have no task manager, i have tried #64 with no help, please somebody has got to know how to help, even to help me get to task manager, please
Th elatest version of this installed under c:/Program Files/SAV/
and disguised itself as SymantecAntiVirus.
Start you machine in Safe Mode with Networking. This will prevent the thing from starting in the first place
Delete the reg key that starts it. In my case it was SAV.exe. If yours is not SAV, then look in this hive to see what looks out of place.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\”[RANDOM NAME]” = “C:\Program Files\[RANDOM NAME]\[RANDOM NAME].exe”
I’m not sure if this will help anyone but here are the steps I took:
Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, to bring up task manager, go to processes, and find something like sav.exe. Tell windows to end task and push ok.
Delete the “shortcut icon” from your desktop.
Go to My Computer-C Drive-Program files, find SAV, or something of the sort. Delete all files inside folder, and empty recycle bin.
Restart computer.
If that does not work I recommend backing up and doing a system restore.
Uncheck 2 startup entries in msconfig with similiar names as rhccfbj0er6r
yo ching,
I tried that, but no difference, it will go away but then come back in less than a minute.
I go to the taskbar and end the program, but then what? It doesn’t go the the recycle bin, What am I doing wrong? PLEEEEASE HELP!~
I performed the above tasks in removing this spyware. I removed the shlwapi.dll and wininet.dll and now cannot get onto my computer as when it boots up it does not go into Windows because these files are missing, so it’s a black blank screen as it cannot find these .dll’s for loading into Windows XP.
plz… help me about this virus appear in my com
I just performed ChingSan’s suggestions for Antivirus 2009 only the file was called TMPE.exe
Does anyone of you know about how to remove virus “antivirus 360″? please help me
Tried everything but COULDN’T remove the virus.