Antivirus 2009 is not an antivirus, it’s a malware itself. This fake antivirus create fake alerts and force people to buy Antivirus 2009 from their site to stop these alerts. It’s not that much harmful, but it’s annoying and disturbs you during your computing. No antivirus can catch this, so this does not matter if you are using Norton or AVG or something else. These antivirus tools CAN NOT remove this malware from your computer. You need a malware remover tool (NOT ALL) to remove this crap from your computer. Lets talk about the removal process of Antivirus 2009.

Antivirus 2009 is not the only case, it has clones like System Antivirus 2008, Ultimate Antivirus 2008, Vista Antivirus 2008, XP Antivirus 2008 etc. All of these create fake alerts and show notifications in your taskbar area. It automatically opens different windows (of course, fake ones) to tell you that your computer has been corrupted and you need to buy Antivirus 2009 to remove those viruses from your PC. Check out the below screenshots :

It not only displays the fake warning alerts on your computer, it also affects your browsing experience. The most common browser, i.e. internet explorer gets corrupted and whenever you open Google.com with your Internet Explorer, it will start showing fake alerts on that page also. Showing alerts on sites like Google, can easily convince someone and their products get sold. Never fall in this trick.

Always remember that all the antivirus programs run silently on your computer. They do not appear on your windows task manager’s running applications list. But this Antivirus 2009 appears on the windows task manager. You can disable that from there, but it won’t get disabled completely. After sometime it will pop up with those fake alerts again. The most bad thing about this malware is that it disturbs your mind.

In short Antivirus 2009 is a scam. It installs malware on your computer and asks you to buy an antivirus called Antivirus 2009 from a site to remove these alerts. NEVER FALL IN THIS. Do not buy any products from them. They might install another malware after this one. The first step that you should take is to block this website using your internet options from your browser.

HOW TO REMOVE ANTIVIRUS 2009

Removal process of Antivirus 2009 can be done in two ways. One is manually and another one is by using third party anti-malware tools. Remember that there are only few anti-spyware or anti-malware tools available that can remove this Antivirus 2009 malware completely. Manually removing Antivirus 2009 is a bit complex as you have to delete several files from your computer. By using anti-malware tools, you can do this quick and easily.

REMOVING ANTIVIRUS 2009 FROM YOUR COMPUTER AUTOMATICALLY:

Antivirus 2009 has been coded by some hardcore professionals and it’s very hard for the antivirus programs to catch it. They change their source code very frequently and hence anti spyware and anti-malware tools can not catch it. There are a very few tools available which can do this for you in minutes. Simply download those anti-spywares and anti-malwares, perform a system scan and they will automatically remove Antivirus 2009 from your computer.

Malwarebytes Anti Malware is the tool that can remove Antivirus 2009 from your computer completely.

Windows Defender is another tool that can completely uninstall Antivirus 2009 from your computer.

REMOVING ANTIVIRUS 2009 MANUALLY FROM YOUR COMPUTER :

1. Kill Active Processes : Press ALT+CTRL+DEL and end the following processes.

1. av2009.exe
2. av2009[1].exe
3. AV2009Install.exe
4. Antivirus2009.exe

2. Delete Registry Values : Click Start >> Run and type regedit. Navigate to the following values and remove them (Right click and delete those values).

1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Run\15358943642955870504508370025739
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Antivirus
3. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\”Antivirus” = “%ProgramFiles%\Antivirus 2009\Antvrs.exe”
4. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antivirus

3. Delete Infected Files : Now you have to delete all those infected files used by Antivirus 2009. You can use windows search feature to locate them. Go to Start >> Search. Type the file name and hit Search.

1. av2009.exe
2. av2009install.exe
3. av2009install_0011.exe
4. av2009[1].exe
5. Antivirus2009.exe
6. ieupdates.exe
7. scui.cpl
8. %program_files%\\antivirus 2009\\av2009.exe
9. %startmenu%\\antivirus 2009\\antivirus 2009.lnk
10. %startmenu%\\antivirus 2009\\uninstall antivirus 2009.lnk
11. %desktopdirectory%\\antivirus 2009.lnk
12. winsrc.dll
13. av2009install_0011.exe
14. av2009install.exe

4. Reboot your computer. And you are done with the Antivirus 2009 removal process.

Your computer should have been cleared from fake Antivirus 2009 by now. If the Antivirus 2009 is still there, you have made some mistakes while performing the above steps. If you face any difficulties in this manual process, you can feel free to use anti-spyware or anti-malwares to do this for you in minutes. They are fast and dependable. Give them a try.