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Dealing with Spywares and Malwares on your home PC:

It is an inevitable truth, that everyone has come across spywares and malwares. If not on your computer, atleast on some of your friends computers having frequent pop up ads on their system without their knowledge. Most people doesn't spend enough time to remove these spywares. Spywares and Malwares are nothing but unwanted programs on your system. They target on collecting information about your system, daily internet activities, some of then even go to the extent of collecting your personal information. The worst case is when the spywares highjack (take control) of your system. So it is necessary to maintain some form of defense on your system against these spywares and malwares. The defense can be either software based (automatic) or hardware based (semi-automatic). We will discuss about both the methods here, with an example on how to remove the most famous malware Antivirus Pro 2010.

Semi-Automatic Method:

This is a beautiful method to kill all the pop up ads that may contain spywares and malwares. We have come across websites that have numerous pop up ads with built in spywares and malwares on them. It is advisable to avoid these sites. But if you still want to see the content on them, then the best way to maintain control on these types of websites, is to use the content advisor on windows explorer. Many people do not use this feature because either they do not know how to use them or they are unaware of its presence. There may be similar features on other web browsers too, but we will cover only windows explorer browser features here.

Content Advisor for pop up Ads:

You can configure the content advisor with different restriction levels. Once it is configured and password protected, then no pop up ads are allowed to be displayed without your approval. The methods to enable and use content advisor is explained below. It is advisable to maintain a very simple password with a single letter and use the same letter as the passoword hint to lower your frustration while surfing the internet. To enable the content advisor, follow the methods explained below.

Under the tools menu, select the Internet options menu. Now select the content tab. On this tab select the content advisor settings. If you are a parent and would like to restrict the usage of internet for your kids, you can implement the parental controls here.

You can go through all the various options on this screen. Under the ratings tab, maintain the rating to None and under the General tab check "Supervisor can type a password to allow users to view restricted content" button. Now you should set a password for the supervisor. Set simple passwords. In this example, the password is set to letter "s". We also used the same letter as the password hint.

Note: Content Advisor will ask you to enter your password before enabling the content advisor. Once it is enabled, you will get a screen conforming that it is enabled.

Now try to get into any website. If you know of some websites with vigorous pop up ads, then try that one and see for yourself the control you have on pop up ads. None of the pop up ads can pass through without your supervisor password. You will get a screen similar to the one shown on the left. The example on the left shows how content advisor blocked one of the pop up ads. The add basically needs supervisor permission to get displayed. You can use this technique especially when you enter suspicious websites.

To stop the pop up ads just click the cancel button.

The above explained method is effective, but only upto a certain extent. If you need some realtime protection, then you will need a software capable of protecting you real time. Some example softwares are McAfee, Norton, etc. If you are looking for some free softwares, then try the following.

Installing the Malewarebytes Antimaleware is highly recommended, since this software has the full capability to remove the most troublesome Maleware called Antivirus pro 2009 or 2010.

Tip: Keep your antivirus and spyware softwares up to date to get protection against latest threats.


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Antivirus Pro 2010 removal tips:

This malware is also called as Antivirus pro 2008, Antivirus pro 2009 and Eco Antivirus 2010.

If you accidentally install Antivirus pro 2010 on your system, then go through the following instructions, since there isn't an easy way to uninstall Antivirus pro 2010 malware. There are two different methods to remove this malware. First method is to remove the registry values and system files, this method is not explained here due to its complexity. The second method is using Malwarebytes Antimalware Software. If you wonder why is this malware so complicated to remove. The following pointers will explain you why.

Functions of Antivirus Pro 2010

1..Restarts your computer automatically, so that you will start to think that some form of dangerous virus affected your system.

2..Disables your antivirus program and takes complete control of your system.

3..Pops up message saying your computer is at risk from virus and spywares.

4..Immediately out of nowhere Antivirus Pro 2010 windows pops up and starts to scan for virus, spyware and malwares. This is just to convince you that it is finding some virus files on your system. But most of these files are harmless files and Antivirus Pro 2010 created them so that it can find them again on your system.

5..If you try to search for methods to remove this software online (example: google search), then you will be directed to Antivirus pro 2010 website asking you to get the license for this software, because your internet explorer was already highjacked.

6..If you try to install windows defender, or Malwarebytes Antimalware or Spyware Doctor, none of them will work since Antivirus blocks all the installation files. This is because, Antivirus pro 2010 is designed to recognize the setup file names for most of the famous spyware removal softwares.

Basically you will end up having no control on your own computer.

This is basically when some people give up their credit card information and buy the license for this product, thinking this will solve their problem. But nothing gets solved, except getting charged on your credit card for nothing.

If you bought the license already, then call the credit card company and ask them to block the transaction or file a fraud complaint against the transaction.

Removal Procedures:

1..Go to a different computer than the affected computer.

2..Download malwarebytes antimalware from link provided above.

3..See if it runs on the affected system, if not change the setup file name with random names like abcd.exe, a12b.exe, etc. Then install Malwarebytes Antimalware software.

4..Perform a quick scan as shown below. Malwarebytes might take more than 30 minutes sometimes to completely find all the Antivirus pro 2010 files. It will ask you to confirm removal of Antivirus Pro 2010 Files.

5..Malwarebytes will restart your system to remove some last remaining system files.

After this you are done with removing your Antivirus Pro 2010 Rogue Anti-Spyware.