Comments on: IE-AV (ie-av.exe) Removal Instructions (IE AV)

By: gohan

gohan — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:35:45 +0000

thanks mate, even a month later, and with a XP machine, your stuff still works!!
your my god

By: Gareth

Gareth — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:45:09 +0000

Guys, I may well be repeating what’s been mentioned already, but I’ll give you my experience of removing av.exe. No system restore or anything was needed, it was quite straightforward.

- Bring up the Task Manager and kill av.exe
- Go to C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\
- Set ‘View Hidden Files’ under View, Options
- You should now be able to see av.exe. Delete the f#cker
- Now you’ll find that you can’t open executable applications as you normally would.
- Go to \Windows\ and right-click on Regedit.exe … run as administrator
- Remove any references to av.exe. I didn’t delete any Values, I just removed parts of the strings pertaining to av.exe. For example, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe\shell\open\command\(Default) will be left as “%1″ %*
- Once done, my system worked fine. Good luck.

By: n.k.o.

n.k.o. — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:55:20 +0000

Strangely enough though, unlike most of you guys, my malwarebites thing is running and it just detected 3 infected objects, however I don’t know if deleting them will permanately solve the problems, as it has already shown its annoying lil’ tendencies to resurface…