Monday, March 17, 2014

Guide to Uninstall/Remove Activeris AntiMalwar Rogue Antivirus




Description of Activeris AntiMalwar


Activeris AntiMalwar is a rogue program that imitates some functions of legit antivirus programs to cheat you.  This malicious program infiltrates into your system secretly and automatically scans the whole Windows operating system. In fact, it can’t pick up some computer viruses for you. But in order to scare you, this rogue program shows many false security warnings claiming that your PC has lots of vulnerabilities and computer viruses. And you are warned that potential attackers will make use of these viruses to damage your machine and steal your crucial information.

Under this circumstance, you may urgently want to clean your PC and keep safe. However, Activeris AntiMalwar continues to say that you need to pay for its full version so that it is able to help you remove threats completely. Actually, there is nothing wrong with your computer. The bogus antivirus program just aims at getting money illegally. If you fall for this scam, you will have lots of troubles. When you transfer money by your credit card, this dirty program gathers your number and password. Besides, Activeris AntiMalwar also drops unwanted viruses onto your system. To prevent this Antimalware virus from tricking your computer traces and causing damages, you need to uninstall Activeris AntiMalwar without delay.

Activeris AntiMalwar Detailed Uninstall Instruction


It is not easy to uninstall Activeris AntiMalwar from your PC. Some files and registry entries can hide deeply in your system. You can find out its hidden files by following the guide below.

Step 1: Enter safe mode with networking first. Restart your computer and press F8 key incessantly before you get into Windows operating system. After the options appear on your screen, use the arrow to choose Safe Mode with Networking.


Step 2: Terminate the process of Activeris AntiMalwar. You can right click on Task Bar and select Task Manager. In the Processes tab, you need to find out the process of Activeris AntiMalwar and click on End Processes button.



Step 3: Remove XX from start-up items. Click on Start button, input msconfig in the search bar and click OK. After you open System Configuration, find out all suspicious start-up items and disable them.

Step 4: Remove the files of Activeris AntiMalwar. Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Then use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and un-check Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.

%Temp%\<random>
%Temp%\<random>\<random>.dat
%Temp%\<random>\<random>.exe

Step 5: Delete Activeris AntiMalwar registry entries from your PC. Click start button and search for regedit to open Registry Editor.


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\<random>
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes" = ".exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation" = 1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "<random>" = "%Temp%\<random>\<random>.exe"
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.key "(Default)" = "regfile"

Step 6: Reboot your PC.