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How to remove Real Antivirus [Removal Guide]

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How to remove Real Antivirus [Removal Guide]

Post by Doctor Inferno on Wed 29 Oct 2008, 7:56 pm

How To Remove Real Antivirus

This guide will give you easy instructions on how to remove Real Antivirus


Real Antivirus Screenshots:








Symptoms in HijackThis Logs:

Code:
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [RealAV.exe] C:\Program Files\RealAV\RealAV.exe





Follow these instructions to continue:

1. Please download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.



2. Install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware by double clicking on mbam-setup.exe

3. Follow the prompts. Make sure that Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware are checked. Then click finish.

4. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will automatically update itself after the install, you can press the OK button to close that box and you will now be at the main program as shown below.

If you are having problems with the updater, you can use this link to manually update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with the latest database
Spoiler:
Download the Full database to your Desktop or to your usual Download Folder and install it by double clicking the file. Make sure that Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is closed before installing the update.



5. Close ALL open Windows, Programs, File or Folders.

6. Make sure you are on the Scanner tab. Select Perform quick scan then click the Scan button as shown above.

7. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for infected files as shown below.


8. When the scan is finished a message box will appear, click Ok to continue.

9. Click Show Results.


10. You will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections like shown below. Yours may look different depending on the infection you have.

11. Click on Remove seletced


12. When removing the files, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware may require you to restart the computer in order to do a complete removal. If it displays a message stating that it needs to restart, please allow it to do so.

13. After that you can close the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware window, your computer is now cleaned.

To protect your computer from future threats like this, you may want to consider purchasing the Pro version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with real-time protection from this link.




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Last edited by Doctor Inferno on Thu 25 Jun 2009, 1:09 am; edited 1 time in total


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Re: How to remove Real Antivirus [Removal Guide]

Post by Jerry Parnell on Thu 30 Oct 2008, 6:26 pm

Good Guide doc.

Real antivirus is such a monstrous malware.



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