Antivirus Center Removal Guide

Antivirus Center is a fake antivirus program that perform like a real antivirus such as Kaspersky Anti-Virus, AVG Free Antivirus, Avira AntiVir etc. Antivirus Center infects the computer when the user accidentally downloads a trojan from a website which provide online videos. Antivirus Center will start automatically when Windows boot. Then, Antivirus Center will scan the computer and produce fake scan results and display many fake alerts to urge the user to purchase the full version of Antivirus Center in order to remove the detected malwares.

Antivirus Center can be removed by stopping and removing all the processes and files with random name in the hard drive and restoring the registry entries added and modified by Antivirus Center. All of them has been shown in the removal guide below.

Antivirus Center should be removed immediately!

Antivirus Center Removal Guide
Kill Process
(How to kill a process effectively?)
[random].exe

Delete Registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[random]“
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List “C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe” = 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\rundll32.exe:*:Enabled:Antivirus Center'


Remove Folders and Files
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Antivirus Center.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Antivirus Center.lnk
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\[random].ico
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\[random].dat
%Temp%\wrk4.tmp
%Temp%\ins2.tmp
%Temp%\mv3.tmp