Virus Removal Guru

Recent Comments:

• Jim: One Feb. 26, Jackie posted the fix that worked for me: “I had a slightly different version of the virus...
• gerald: i was able to remove the av.exe file, but i wasn’t able to find any of the registry files or start up...
• Sean The Don: A great program to invest in in a program call Trojan Remover, it found it and all its files and...
• Jason: I too was unable to start in safe mode, run regedit, msconfig, system restore and most other programs...
• Jay: Well, thanks all… since removing all the files explained, my computer is now useless, any program exe file...
• SSH: Thanks Randy and Jeslik for the tips! Helped me nail this thing.
• Isa: BTW, I’m running Vista, I was able to delete the keys in regular mode, but I pulled the plug and then...
• Isa: Thanks for the help guys. Had the same ‘had to run as administrator’ problem till I did what Randy...
• Picaress: Kwisatz Haderach, thank you so much — you have saved my sanity, I am sure. I did just as you...
• jtech: I ran ERD commander’s system restore function it fixed the problem this is a virus that lives in the...
• Scott: I cannot open regedit, I cannot find the av.exe file itself. Any help on what I can do?
• Sourav: I m also not able to use run to open regedit after I deleted the av.exe. Also I m not able to run exe s like...
• Matt: I an spybot and malwarebytes. The first scan of spybot came up with a bunch of malware/spyware/etc. However, it...
• m: i cant get “run” to work so i cant get onto registry and change the secfile to .EXE any suggestions...
• Greg: Thank you so much guys for your precious help! I have spent hours with this problem. A lot of internet site do...
• Randy: After I got rid of av.exe and the calls to it from reg. No EXE files would run. I searched the error message...
• Becky: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Without this website I would never have been able to rid my computer of this...
• D Thorne: big thanks to this site and all of the insightful commentators I was able to remove this virus. one thing...
• Adrian: Hi, i just removed it myself. But you will see it local settings/application data. i didn’t see it at...
• Greg: I hate to state the obvious here (again) but as long as you use free programs, you won’t get quite as...
• Greg: By the way, Spyware Doctor is free ONLY to scan with. You HAVE to register it for it to remove anything. Trend...
• Greg: I saw a command, it wasn’t attrib but had a /AH and /S switch that you ran from the command line....
• Richie Rich: I tried removing Winesm32 using Hijack this and Beowulf’s method, but it keeps reappearing every...
• Lexi: Well I have this, I stopped it’s procces, but I can’t find LOCAL SETTINGS anywhere!?!?!?!? I must...
• Quentin: I was infected with “Vista Guardian 2023″ I managed to do a full scan with...