How To Remove XP Antivirus 2010?
XP Antivirus 2010 is a similar virus to the XP antivirus 2009, although no one really knows who were the developers and whether they were from the same developer. The basic idea behind the XP Antivirus 2010 is to deceive users to believe that it is an authentic antivirus software and that your system is infected with other viruses which can only be solved if you upgraded to the paid version of the software. Ultimately the SP Antivirus 2010 wants your credit card details.
The XP Antivirus 2010 should be classified as a malware rather than a virus. It infiltrate itself into your system via Trojans or sometimes even getting you to installed the malware willingly. It is notorious for self-installing itself via Trojans whenever users install download software such as video codecs, cracked software etc. The malware also can get into your system when you visit websites that have been cracked and loaded with the malware. When you are on these infected websites, fake security alerts will request you to either purchase the upgraded “malware” or it will self-install when you click that you want the free version to eradicate the virus. The XP antivirus 2010 will also appear on advertisements such as banner ads, which was purchased by the malware owner, to convince users to install it as a free antivirus software.
After it has installed itself onto your system, it will constantly display security alert on a variety of viruses that cannot be deleted unless you upgrade to the paid version of the XP Antivirus 2010. It will even display a fake Windows Security Center to scare you to buy the XP antivirus 2010. This scare tactic will continue until you remove the XP antivirus 2010 malware however it will not be so easy to remove it like a typical software through the control panel. You will either have to remove it manually by deleting the processes in the memory, the executable files and the library files, as well as the registry values, or you could get an antivirus remover. I would go the manual route but if you prefer to get an antivirus remover tool, by all means.
XP Antivirus 2010 Removal
First of all, you will need to remove the XP Antivirus 2010 processes which are currently running. Delete or kill the following process:
Av2010.exe
Av.exe
This step will remove it from the memory. Before it can revive itself by restarting its processes, you should delete the following files:
c:\Program Files\AV2010 c:\Program Files\AV2010\AV2010.exe c:\Program Files\AV2010\svchost.exe c:\WINDOWS\system32\IEDefender.dll c:\WINDOWS\system32\wingamma.exe c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\AV2010.lnk c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\AV2010 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\AV2010\AV2010.lnk c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\AV2010\Uninstall.lnk
You will then be required to edit your windows registry. The following values needs to be deleted so that the XP Antivirus 2010 will not be able to restart itself again:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AV2010 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\{3C40236D-990B-443C-90E8-B1C07BCD4A68} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\IEDefender.DLL HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{FC8A493F-D236-4653-9A03-2BF4FD94F643} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEDefender.IEDefenderBHO HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IEDefender.IEDefenderBHO.1 HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\{7BC7565C-5062-43CE-8797-DC2C271140A9} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\{705FD64B-2B7B-4856-9337-44CA1DA86849} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{FC8A493F-D236-4653-9A03-2BF4FD94F643} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0012 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0013 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\0014 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Windows Gamma Display"
Your computer should now be free from the XP Antivirus 2010 after it has been removed.