Antivirus Monitor Removal Guide

Antivirus Monitor is another type of fake antivirus program which will definitely show pop ups to tell the user that the computer has been infected by malwares, trojans and viruses. Antivirus Monitor CANNOT detect and remove any kind of malware, trojan and virus. Antivirus Monitor can only cheat the user to purchase the full version of Antivirus Monitor so that to removed the detected threats. Do not believe any pop ups or report shown by Antivirus Monitor. All of them is a lie. We should also be watchful for potential browser hijack attempts, since Antivirus Monitor is based on malware known for abusing proxy servers.

Antivirus Monitor scare the user will many virus name such as Downloader.JS.Small, Sality AN, GameThief.Win32, WinWebSecurity2008 etc. Antivirus Monitor can be removed by using Emsisoft HiJackFree to stop the process of Antivirus Monitor and remove the files. Then the user should remove the registries entries added and modified by Antivirus Monitor according to the removal guide stated below.

Antivirus Monitor should be removed immediately!

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

Delete Registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:18810"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyEnable" = "1"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "ProxyOverride" = ""
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random].exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\PhishingFilter "Enabled" = "0"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\[random]

Remove Folders and Files
%Temp%\[random]