Anti-virus 2008?getting rid of?

Question

cant uninstall can anyone help. already tried spybot and pc guard and the programs own uninstaller to no avail

Answer 1

"Anti-virus 2008" is rogue virus disguise as an anti-virus product and trick users to click on it.

The more you click, the more spywares and trojans it download.

You must install CLAMWIN

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows

that uses the GNU General Public License by the Free Software

Foundation and is free (as in freedom) software.

There is a portable version of ClamWin where it can be install into an USB thumb drive.

You can install in a USB drive as small as 128 MB.

First use another PC to download Clamwin portable anti-virus

and install Clamwin portable on a USB thumb drive.

http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/c...

How to configure ClamWin

http://support.real-time.com/open-source...

Update the latest anti-virus definition files.

Set the preferences to delete virus.

Boot up the infected PC in safe mode.

Use the USB drive with Clamwin Anti-virus installed to scan the infected PC.

Scan all hard drives for viruses.

Answer 2

If you are running on vista try running the uninstall as administrator right click it and click run as administrator that might work

Answer 3

What company is it made by? By the sounds of it, this could be a virus all on its own! Lol.

If all else fails, your going to have to delete the program files, and the System32 exe files manually. Pain in the bottom.  

Answer 4

AVG free make sure you turn off system restore to get there right click my computer properties click the tab that says system restore then turn it off if you dont the virus will just keep coming back hope the helps

also try this go into my computer click on Local Disk C: go into program files find antivirus 2008 and delete the folder make sure you turn off system resote you wont be able to remove it if you dont

sometimes viruses hide in your registry so download a program called ccleaner and run that too

also download and these and run scans with them

Spybot - Search & Destroy

Windows Defender comes with vista so if you have vista dont download

Answer 5

Its a virus, my friend had it on her comp. if you are not very good with computer i would recommend you take it in somewhere.

Answer 6

try this,

open my computer, then on the upper left part click Add or Remove programs (it's under the system task category)

look for the program you want to uninstall, after uninstalling restart you computer

Answer 7

Download, install and run CCleaner  to clean up old temp files.

http://www.ccleaner.com   [Free]

Restart your PC in safe mode with networking

http://www.pchell.com/support/safemode.s...

Download, install and run a full scan with Malwarebytes

http://www.malwarebytes.org

Run a full scan with Micro Trend House Call

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

After the scans, restart the PC and update your anti-virus, remember to only have one anti-virus installed on your PC

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-...  [Free, if you do not have one]

Answer 8

You can follow http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/malware-...

Answer 9

i had the same thing on my computer and i was annoying as h**l!!! i used spybot but hmm... idk how else to do it but i feel you... it sucks!

Answer 10

i had it on my pc. click the start tab. then click run. type msconfig in the bar and click enter. it will bring up a lot of stuff running in the background. try to find it there. It worked 4 me hope this helped good luck