Alpha Antivirus
September 23, 2009 Threat level:
(7 / 10)
Alpha Antivirus description
Alpha Antivirus is a harmful application which imitates of being a legitimate security program. The main idea is to make the people purchase its payed software which is presented as a system protection and security tool.
AlphaAntivirus is actually a malware programed to perform various functions that would make the user believe that it is an actual security software. It might perform false system scans and display numerous fabricated infections to be found. Alpha Anti virus is also capable of issuing fake warning messages and pop-up advertisements that suggest downloading the program and paying for Alpha Antivirus.
It is very important not to purchase and not to install Alpha Antivirus as it might lead to some serious system damage and private data loss. Alpha Antivirus might even steal your passwords and reveal them to the third parties. In order to avoid all that, please remove AlphaAntivirus from your system immediately.
New processes created
AlphaAV.exeNetFilter.exe Learn how to remove malicious processes
New Alpha Antivirus registry entries created
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "AlphaAV"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Alpha Antivirus"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Alpha Antivirus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Alpha Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Alpha Antivirus
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Alpha Antivirus.lnk Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan your registry errors
Learn how to remove malicious registry entries
New files and directories created
C:\Program Files\AlphaAVC:\Program Files\AlphaAV\AlphaAV.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\msnaoladdon.dll
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Alpha Antivirus.lnk
C:\WINDOWS\system32\NetFilter.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ndisapi.dll
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\NDISRD.sys Learn how to unregister malicious DLL files
How to remove Alpha Antivirus
To remove Alpha Antivirus manually you must block rogue Alpha Antivirus related websites, remove malicious processes and registry entries, unregister dlls and delete all malicious Alpha Antivirus files from your computer.
Please note: cleaning your computer is a difficult and dangerous task, manually editing registry entries and removing processes and files may cause serious damage to your system. We strongly recommend scanning your computer with one of the legitimate antispyware scanners.