How to remove Personal Antivirus?

Personal Antivirus Description

Personal Antivirus is a fake antispyware application. Personal Antivirus is promoted as an anti-virus, but it just imitates the look and feel of a real security application while in fact it is a byproduct of a serious infection:

Personal Antivirus is another clone of Internet Antivirus Pro and General Antivirus rogue software. It displays fake or exaggerated list of spyware threats and tries to frighten the user into purchasing of the "full" version of that rogue software.

Computers infected with Personal Antivirus may have their search results misdirected / redirected to bogus sites, and existing antivirus software may become disabled.

Personal Antivirus displays annoying warning messages from the Windows taskbar informing about detected threats. If the user chooses the option to remove detected "threat", he/she will be asked to buy the full version of Personal Antivirus.

Personal Antivirus automatic detection

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How to remove Personal Antivirus manually

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You must perform the following tasks to remove Personal Antivirus malware manually: stop all malicious processes, unregister malicious DLL files, delete all files and registry keys installed by Personal Antivirus files and block Personal Antivirus redistribution websites.

During installation Personal Antivirus registers itself in the list of installed applications. You can try to remove Personal Antivirus using "Control Panel" -> "Add or Remove Programs" utility, however some hidden files may be left behind on the system.

Personal Antivirus manual removal instructions

Stop all Personal Antivirus malicious processes:

• pav.exe

Unregister Personal Antivirus malicious DLLs:

• %System32%\winexplorer.dll

Delete all files installed by Personal Antivirus:

• %All Users%\Start Menu\PAV\Personal Antivirus.lnk
• %All Users%\Start Menu\PAV\Uninstall.lnk
• %Program Files%\Common Files\Uninstall\PAV\Uninstall.lnk
• %Program Files%\PAV\pav.exe
• %System32%\winexplorer.dll
• %User Profile%\Desktop\Personal Antivirus.lnk

Delete all registry keys installed by Personal Antivirus:

• %HKLM%\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{2E59498D-7E44-4452-9044-0973B080B9E8}
• %HKLM%\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{2E59498D-7E44-4452-9044-0973B080B9E8}
• %HKLM%\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\PAV

Block Personal Antivirus redistribution websites:

• antiviruslivescanv3.com
• safeinternettoolv1.com
• sexerotika2009.ru

Once you complete the above manual removal steps, download this scanner to scan your computer for any Personal Antivirus leftovers.

Similar Malware Threats

• General Antivirus
• Internet Antivirus Pro