Antivirus Monitor is a rouge anti virus program that infects your pc with multiple spyware and malware issues. Antivirus Monitor automatically installs itself from ActiveX files that are downloaded to your system due to flaws in your internet security settings or out of date spyware removal tools. Once a system is infected with this malware the program will continuously give messages about an infection on the PC via pop-ups, and notifications in the task menu. When this program runs it will appear to be running scans and it will present a list of “infections” and when it attempts to remove the infections it will prompt users to purchase the product to remove the infections. This is just a scam to scare users into submitting their credit card information.

Manual Removal of Antivirus Monitor: Antivirus Monitor will disable the Windows task manager making it difficult to remove while running. To get around it from running restart your computer in safe mode. To access safe mode, restart your computer and tap the F8 button. When correctly done a black screen will appear with options for starting up Windows. Choose Safe Mode and Windows will start up in the trouble shooting mode. When in safe mode Windows will only start up necessary files and programs which makes remove Antivirus Monitor possible. Next locate and delete the following files associated with Antivirus Monitor:

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

Antivirus Monitor Registry Entries that should be removed:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\<random>
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = ‘1’
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter “Enabled” = ‘0’
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyOverride” = ”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyServer” = ‘127.0.0.1:33554’
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “ProxyEnable” = ‘1’
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” = ‘.exe’
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “<random>”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “CheckExeSignatures” = ‘no’

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