Cannot Remove Personal Antivirus - Rogue Software
Jun 6, 2009
computer with Vista is infected with the rogue software
'Personal Antivirus' but no matter what I do I cannot remove it. It is
installed in C:Program FilesPAV and Vista does not allow me to remove
it. It says needs Administrator permission though I am Adminstrator and
I gave all required permissions. When i click close in System Tray it
does not close it. When I try to uninstall it does not uninstall it.
Wondering reinstalling OS is the only option? I have Zone alarm with
latest updates but that does not seem to be able to remove it.
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Jun 13, 2009
Avast Antivirus Home Edition OR Avira AntiVir Personal?
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Jul 18, 2009
When go into security center on Vista, it says I have 2 firewalls enabled. Windows Firewall and McAfee Personal Firewall. I cannot find MPF anywhere! I want to delete/disable it. Anyone got any ideas on how to?
Note: I'm not using McAfee. It came with my computer and I stopped using it after the 30-day trial.
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Nov 18, 2008
Microsoft Office and other Windows Applications store all sorts of personal information when you save a file. Your name, computer name, company, date and time last edited are all examples of data included in a simple Word document file.
If you are concerned about your privacy there is an easy way to strip this information from a file....
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Apr 22, 2010
I read an article last week that the number one thing to do to protect your computer from malware is to run it in a "user" account. Equal to that is simply good behavior or sites on internet. Also to keep everything updated. I have always done these things. I run the latest Avast for my antivirus protection. I also have windows defender protection on and PC Tools Firewall Plus for firewall. Tonight I looked at drudge report and clicked on a link to a British newspaper. The article wasn't what I thought it was and it looked like a tabloid (Sun? closed so quick don't remember) and tabloid is not news so I quickly closed that window and went on to next links. My computer went slow after that. Just did not seem right. Restarted in safe mode and ran cCleaner computer clean and registry clean in both user and admin. Restarted and all my appearance settings are different. Runs slow or different. I remembered Windows Defender updated yesterday and the update always does a restore point. Tried to run System restore to restore to yesterday settings. After giving admin permission I saw the wait circle just disappear. It was like vista just ignored or canceled the start up of system restore. Every time I retried System restore it did the same thing or crashed my computer.
This smells like a virus. I go to main stream web sites only, run computer with (default limited) user account (use admin only when I need to make certain changes which is rare), Avast updates automatically multiple times a day. With these settings and behavior I thought I was bulletproof. I even read that $10,000 hacking prize winner Dino Dai Zovi and Rich Mogull both said Vista more secure than Apple Mac. I am currently scanning whole computer with a-squared Free. I will then scan with Avast, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, SUPERAntiSpyware, Windows Defender, and again with Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool, in that order. What do I do if all these scans find nothing?
What do I do now? I never had a virus or malware before. Is it like the mumps, you want to get it as a child and not an adult? Does antivirus or antimalware remove bad stuff or does it just tell me I am infected and I need to reformat and rebuild system
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Apr 29, 2009
i bought a laptop acer aspire 4930g before six months. it previously contained the mcafee antivirus as the security. so i was ok then. now it is asking me to renew the mcafee. but i want to put avg. i can not put avg without uninstalling the mcafee. now i am having trouble deciding that what should i do. which is the better ? can i remove the preinstalled mcafee for avg? because i am getting avg for free. will avg do the same job ? may be mcafee was giving the full protection and avg may not give the same? i am using windows vista premium. please tell me that if it is ok to install avg and remove the mcafee for the full internet security.
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Apr 26, 2010
1. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 9.0 (Not Recommend): AVG Antivirus and Security Software - Download Free Antivirus
2. avast! Free Anti-Virus Edition: avast! Free Antivirus - Download Software for Virus Protection
3. Avira AntiVir Personal: Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus
Please post if there are anymore free anti-virus editions. For #5 (Comodo Internet Security Suite), there is a bug. If you click the link, it will go to Comodo Anti-Virus, you can use Anti-Virus. If you want Internet Security, click it on the left side panel.
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Apr 3, 2008
I accidentally deleted couple folders in my "personal folder"... can't find them in Recycle Bin... so how do i get those special folders under Personal Folder back?!
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Mar 23, 2008
Don't recall doing anything unique. Exited Windows Mail normally. Next time i accessed my personal folders, excepting one, were gone. Is there anyway to recover?
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May 1, 2010
When ever i try to open my personal file (the one that contains my pictures and Videos and stuff) it crashes restarts and i get this:
Quote: Troubleshoot a problem with CyberLink Demultiplexer
CyberLink Demultiplexer has stopped working properly.
CyberLink Demultiplexer is a codec. The file name of this codec is CLDemuxer.ax........
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Mar 10, 2009
I have all of my personal folders on the D drive. Following a reinstall of Vista64 I again pointed the location of my personal folders back to the D drive (where the folders remained). I was able to take care of all of them except the Downloads folder which does not have a location tab. I am sure it was there on previous installs. What can I do?
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Mar 23, 2008
I am unable to get the program to install correctly in Vista 32. Have tried both version 2.0 and 2.01. Keep getting the error message "User Properties Error Invalid String Class. Suspect Installation Issue". Anyone know how to fix this issue?
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May 15, 2010
I ran the uninstall for Avira AntiVir Personal but all the folders are still in C:programs. When I check Add/Remove programs again, I can't find it.
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Feb 28, 2009
I'm running Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition under Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. Recently I've been getting the following message when opening Outlook: "The data file 'Personal Folders' was not closed properly. This file is being checked for problems" I then have to wait several minutes while the file is checked before I can start using Outlook. It doesn't happen everytime I start Outlook, but often enough to be irritating. I have tried closing Outlook using the "Exit" option on the "File" menu and also the "X" option, but it doesn't seem to matter which method I use. The "not closed properly" message seems to appear at random. I'm using MS Office Outlook 2003 SP3 and running Windows Vista Home Premium.
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Apr 8, 2009
GAOTD are distributing Paragon Drive Backup Personal 9 - for FREE. This is great piece of Backup software - fully featured and selling for $39 normally. I have been using Paragon products for a while - they are excellent.The d/l has both 32 and 64 bit installers.Once extracted from the GAOTD setup, you register for a free key with Paragon,which they email to you.This means you can keep reinstalling it.22hrs left :Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Today: Paragon Drive Backup 9 Personal - Protect your entire PC, undo software malfunctions or crashes, and safeguard your data with latest Paragon Drive Backup 9 Personal.
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I'm having problems installing Digital persona personal 4.11. It wouldn't finish installing and now it can't detect the finger scanner at all. The thing said this "You cannot install the DigitalPersona Personal 32-bit package on this operating system. You must use the 64-bit installation package." Need the link for the 64-bit installation package?
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Mar 24, 2008
Im really starting to hate the start menu. If I try to open my personal folder from the start menu, all i get is a white flash and the nothing. If i try to explore it, an all white window opens up with just Desktop as the address. I even tried to go to my documents and access my personal folder by clicking on it in the address but that does nothing.
The only way to get into it is by going to my computer, users, then accessing it from there. If i drag that folder to my start menu and add it to the top (where your internet browser is) it doesnt work. Although I can add a shortcut to it on the desktop and place that in the start menu, which makes having it in the start menu null anyways since the shortcut is on the desktop.
This has been really frustrating, I was able to somewhat fix the problem by placing my users folder in the start menu but I don't really like that as a fix and was wondering if anybody had a real solution to the problem instead.
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Mar 26, 2009
You know when you make a standard account, it creates a load of folders on the C: drive. I have more than a tera byte because of the volume of files on the drive. Way too many to even consider using C: for anything more than the absolute minimum required OS.
I think back to my C=3D 64/128 and the GEOS OS. Even though it was all on the same drive, it was arranged more like an office, than any windows OS I've ever seen or used. Is there a way to take the 'pictures, music, documents, personal, etc..' and convert those folders to shortcuts to my actual pictures, documents, music, etc. that ALL programs can see and access?
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Nov 23, 2009
I accessed Windows via the command prompt, but how can I go to the 'Documents' & 'Downloads' folders? How can I copy the contents to my SD card which is read in the drive letter 'H'. The cmd. 'xcopy' will copy a whole directory & 'copy' will copy individual files. I read that System Restore doesn't affect personal data, but what I read mentioned only the Documents folder. It also mentioned something like the data had to be protected, so I'm wondering if only data in the Documents folder won't be affected!
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There are about 30 'fantastic' photoes that I received from one of my old friends last week. Now, instead the existing Screen-Saver that came with Vista, I want to make some of my friend's photoes being 'Screen Saver.'My question is; Is there any way to make the personal photoes 'Screen Saver?'
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Feb 29, 2008
Im having some problems with my personal folder. When i go to it all the thumbnails have no information under them: when I go to a folder at a different location it has the information under each large thumbnail: When I go and access my personal folder the "long way" by going to COMPUTER>C DRIVE>USERS>ELENA I can see the information. I have no idea why this happened. I remember I was cutting and pasting things to that folder, but I must have pressed something on my keyboard by accident and the mouse was stuck on select. Then I restarted and this happened. How can I get the text under the large thumbnails to appear again? Going to "View" doesnt work by the way.
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Mar 1, 2009
If I buy a full copy of any version of Vista for personal use, how many computers may I activate it on?
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Jan 19, 2010
Why is speech recognition not very popular among personal computer users? Tough question, but here are my guesses.
1) The SR technology is not yet all that good. For decades, we have been promised that SR is "just around the corner", but the reality is that the technology still has serious flaws, as far as easily converting speech to text is concerned.
2) Personal computing, by its nature, is not all that "suitable" for speech recognition use. The major benefits of SR are to that small group of people who need to "report" their actions, such as doctors, lawyers, reporters, detectives, etc........
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Mar 20, 2009
i have windows vista home premium,HPpavilion dv6700 notebook pc. i installed bluetooth device (USB) and after that my finger print log on is not working.How can i restart my finger print log on manager .It says that my finger print reader is not detected.
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Dec 21, 2008
I'm looking for a app to add exe files to a vista ISO. I want to make a personal OP System and add apps like Internet Download Manager and so on...
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I have experienced two instances were Add/Remove in Vista does not remove all the software, so that comprehensive installation of similar software is not possible. The first concerned a Scanner, where Add/Remove would not remove all the software, so that installation of the new Scanner is not possible, until a procedure recommended by the Scanner's makers involving modifications to the Registry is carried out, which I could not possibly do myself, so it means hiring a Professional to do the job!
The second concerns Spellex. Here again the old version has not been removed, so that installation of the latest version is not fully carried out, making the software useless. How can Microsoft produce Windows where such problems occur? What is the experience of others in case this is a fault with my computer?
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Aug 31, 2009
What antivirus works best with Vista Home Premium?
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Antivirus 360 is a rogue anti-spyware program that uses false scan results and aggressive advertising in order to promote itself. This rogue is advertised by the Vundo Trojan and is replacing the Antivirus 2009 rogue program that Vundo has been aggressively advertising. If you are infected with the Vundo Trojan you will see a large amount of pop-ups stating that your computer is infected and that you should install Antivirus 360 in order to protect yourself. If you click on the ad, Antivirus 360 will be downloaded to your computer and you will be prompted to install it.
Once installed, Antivirus 360 will be configured to start automatically when you start Windows. Once started, the program will perform a scan, and when done, will list a variety of legitimate or nonexistent files as infections that cannot be removed unless you first purchase the program. What is so dangerous about these scan results is that the files that Antivirus 360 states are infections are actually legitimate Microsoft files, that if deleted, will cause Windows to become unusable. Therefore, if someone believes the results from this program they may manually delete the files thinking they are infections and cause their computer to no longer function. Some files that it states are infections are:C:WindowsSystem32svchost.exe
C:WindowsSystem32alg.exe
While running you will also see a constant barrage of false security alerts stating that your computer has a variety of security risks. These risks range from files being modified to private data being sent to a remote host. These alerts, though, are false and are only being shown to further scare you into thinking your infected, when in fact the Antivirus 360 program is the actual infection. Unfortunately, these alerts coupled with the Vundo Trojan will affect your computer's performance and you will notice that it begins to operate slower.
Full Story: How to remove Antivirus 360 (Uninstall Instructions)
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So did you hear about the new XP Police antivirus?
Its coming out from the same egg as of Antivirus 360 and antivirus 2009.
Has anyone faced with this new XP police antivirus yet?
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