Paladin Antivirus
February 8, 2010 Threat level:
(7 / 10)
Paladin Antivirus description
Paladin Antivirus is not a real antivirus application. If you want to keep your computer safe and secure, you should keep away from this fraud. Paladin Antivirus is made to look like a real security program in order to trick the user into thinking that it may protect their computer. Unfortunately, Paladin Antivirus is not meant to provide security. This application has the only purpose – make the user purchase it as if it was a security software. However, Paladin Antivirus is actually a malware which seeks to harm your system instead of protecting it.
Paladin Antivirus is distributed online and spreads via websites which may pretend to be online security scanners, official Paladin Antivirus websites which promote the tool, sites that offer various videos and suggest downloading video codecs which are actually corrupt, or use trojans to download and install Paladin Antivirus automatically. Either way, if Paladin Antivirus gets inside your system it might cause serious security problems, so its better to remove it immediately upon detection.
New processes created
uninstall.exepav.exe Learn how to remove malicious processes
New Paladin Antivirus registry entries created
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Paladin AntivirusHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Paladin Antivirus Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan your registry errors
Learn how to remove malicious registry entries
New files and directories created
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Paladin Antivirus.lnk%UserProfile%\Desktop\Paladin Antivirus Support.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Paladin Antivirus.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Paladin Antivirus
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Paladin Antivirus\Paladin Antivirus Support.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Paladin Antivirus\Paladin Antivirus.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Paladin Antivirus\Uninstall Paladin Antivirus.lnk
c:\Program Files\Paladin Antivirus
c:\Program Files\Paladin Antivirus\help.ico
c:\Program Files\Paladin Antivirus\pav.db
c:\Program Files\Paladin Antivirus\pav.exe
c:\Program Files\Paladin Antivirus\pavext.dll
c:\Program Files\Paladin Antivirus\phook.dll
c:\Program Files\Paladin Antivirus\uninstall.exe Learn how to unregister malicious DLL files
How to remove Paladin Antivirus
To remove Paladin Antivirus manually you must block rogue Paladin Antivirus related websites, remove malicious processes and registry entries, unregister dlls and delete all malicious Paladin 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.