Spyware Removal Instructions

Personal Antivirus Informaiton:

Personal Antivirus is a rogue antivirus application,Personal Antivirus is often downloaded and installed by a Trojan,through browser security holes,or via other unconventional and unethical mechanisms, One installed,Personal Antivirus will display notifications of imaginary security and privacy risks in its attempts to get the user to purchase the full version and may genertate system slowdown and instability. This program can be extremely difficult to manually remove.

Automated Removal Instructions for the Personal Antivirus using Malwarebytes’Anti-Malware:

Step 1: Reboot your computer, keep pressing F8 key and select “Safe Mode with Networking” with your arrow key. Press Enter key and your computer will boot in Safe Mode.

Step 2: Download Malwarebytes’Anti-Malware (Download Link), (Malwarebytes’Anti-Malware information)install it and update its database to the latest. After that, reboot your computer to make Malwarebytes’Anti-Malware fully functional, repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run a full scan of your computer.

NOTE: If you have problem installing Malwarebytes’Anti-Malware Software, you can rename the installer to winlogon.exe or iexplore.exe. Then double click the program and follow the install steps.

ps:before rename Malwarebytes as other name,make file extention show first.

Step 3: After the full scan finishes, click “Show Results” to make sure that your important data are not infected and removed. Ignore or select the scan result and click “Remove Selected” to remove the virus. Malwarebytes’Anti-Malware will pop up a log notepad and list all operations of this scan. You can save it if you like. Reboot your computer and let Malwarebytes’Anti-Malware delete all detected virus.

Step 4: Download and install Regtweaker – registry cleaner to repair your corrupted registry.

Why should you need Regtweaker?

As we know, virus and Trojans make the computer malfunction by destroying and modifying the registry so that the computer will not run normally. After the virus and Trojans are removed, the registry is still destroyed or modified, so the computer still has problems. That’s why you need to repair the registry. Also, some virus and Trojans leave some DLL files in the registry and this will cause strange DLL errors and affect the computer performance.

To make your computer run as fast as before or much faster than before,
1.    Download and install Regtweaker.
2.    Run a full scan of your computer.
3.    Click “Repair Now” and repair all errors detected.

After these 3 easy steps, your computer will run much faster than before!

Personal Antivirus manual removal :

Kill processes:
pav.exe unins000.exe

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Personal Antivirus_is1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ITGrdEngine
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer “PrS”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Personal Antivirus”

Delete files:
Personal Antivirus.lnk Uninstall.lnk pav.exe msxmlm.dll.tmp drv1878004.exe.tmp

Delete directories:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db
c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus
c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db
c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages

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