MS Antivirus Descriptions:
MS Antivirus, also known as MSAntivirus, or MS Antivirus 2008, is not from Microsoft. Please keep this in mind. MS Antivirus is a copy of Vista Antivirus 2008 or its variants. MS Antivirus is a counterfeit antispyware that devastates the computer world. MS Antivirus usually come up after you installed a video codec that come with Trojan, malware and virus. MS Antivirus normally generates fake and misleading system popup error messages so end-users will be tricked into purchase MS Antivirus.
In case you notice any of the following symptoms on your computer, be sure that you need some help:
- Your PC starts performing in a really slow manner.
- You keep getting different warnings about the threat found on your machine.
- The home page of your browser is changed to the purchase page of MS Antivirus.
- Your machine is constantly scanned and a list of infections is found.
It is very critical to remove MS Antivirus and all its components. To effectively remove MS Antivirus, we have created a manual removal instructions. Make sure you backup all important data before you proceed. The removal process requires some patience and willingness to experiment. Here are the things that you need to do in order to remove MS Antivirus.
Download SpyHunter* Spyware Detection Utility
Manual MS Antivirus Removal Instructions:
Stop MS Antivirus Processes:
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msa.exe
msantivirus.exe
Find and Delete these MS Antivirus:
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msa.exe
msantivirus.exe
MSAntivirus.lnk
UninstallMSAntivirus.lnk
c:\Program Files\MSA
c:\Program Files\MSA\MSA.cpl
c:\Program Files\MSA\MSA.exe
c:\Program Files\MSA\msa0.dat
c:\Program Files\MSA\msa1.dat
c:\WINDOWS\system32\MSA.cpl
c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\MSAntivirus.lnk
Remove MS Antivirus Registry Values:
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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AntiVirus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MSA
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Antivirus”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Antivirus”
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In addition, keep in mind that msa.exe file might have different MD5 signatures. Here are some of the available ones:
- e95ae3dbb53852b11c35385f45b0a690 (136704Â bytes),
- aff1b9db1f62f288c11e2da5f386b2e5 (115712Â bytes),
- f238730484c505874683602c1d5a1482 (396800Â bytes),
- d343621a6243c0427316dd808242ed3c (394240Â bytes),
- 3620099dc77e54b95932efb1cfb9ca6d (412160Â bytes),
- e7b5ab24a8c5c23d6905dcbd54aca1a3 (416768 bytes)
- 6578d1134e1bbd43b037ea7862e98994 (415232 bytes
- 6578d1134e1bbd43b037ea7862e98994 (415232Â bytes),
- 5038c811ff286f74fc88c548cd42050a (416768Â bytes),
- d1bf6bc151f5118ec1f623c2bc8cc2c8 (400384Â bytes).
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I know where I got this virus from and it wasn’t porn. I was trying to download a torrent for a game and it gave me that virus. So all the people who say stop watching porn, not all of us are that silly lol
go grab ad aware and it will fix everyhting for you
Hello, I’ve been infected by MSA to the worst it gets in the passed, and I learned what the dll’s that were injected into most of the core files did, and I read msa’s source code via ollydbg32 (aka Assembly; or asm)and it got to the point where it was triggering BSoD errors on boot-up so I had a long chain of events to get rid of it. (this was 2 years ago) I got it once again today, and took me about 30 seconds to delete it, I know how this virus works, and where it tries to hide. *email me if you need any help: * BTW it will help if you download Teamviewer 5 (google it) it is a remote control type of thing so if you can’t figure out what to do, I can control you OS for a short period of time to remove it for you. P.S. I’m 13 so don’t curse xD
bugelskiller..@..g..m..a..i..l..c..o..m (remove dots)
the file didn’t really “disappear”, more-so it went into hidden file mode (right click a file and hit properties, check the hidden file box), to view hidden files open up any folder, and hit tools>folder options, click the “view” tab, scroll down till u see show hidden files and folders, and all hidden files like the one that disappeared on your pc will show up. (unless they are OS files, there is a way to show these to but figure it out yourself.) ~~byebye~~
Got this beast a few hours ago, got a little bit leery, but my Virus prog. didn’t find anything. Then the IE started, I’m always using firefox… I asked a good friend, worried about this, he gave me this site, I followed the instructions and hope I killed it
Nothing in the Task-Manager, I’m going on to look after it next few hours, if it’s there again. Hope it will not appear…
Good thing that it wasn’t on my system for long time, only a few hours, and I deleted it from the Task Manager right after ”downloading”. I didn’t find most of the files that were named in the instructions, and think it hadn’t the time to infect whole areas of my system? Let’s hope this is the truth :,D
Greets from Germany.
The same for me. I only use Chrome and IE was starting itself today. I found a file msa.exe modified today in my system so I killed the process and deleted the file.
My antivirus didn’t see anything so i search “msa.exe” on the web (“google est ton ami” a french expression) and found this page. Others file indicated here are not present in my HD.
I hope I have stop the infection right in time…
Sorry for my bad english.
I found this virus on my system after installing a file called “flash_player.45243.exe” from a web site. The site said – you have an old version of flash player, please click here to upgrade. I spent almost one day to remove it completely!
Hey guys thats all well and good you found and deleted the programs and reg keys, but you are still missing the thing that slows every computer down.
I suggest EVERYONE check their TASK SCHEDULER and then tell me what you find.