Antivirus Software Error

Antivirus Software Error is another misleading alert of Privacy Center rogue antivirus program. It was obvious that this was issued as an scare tactics to force its victim into acquiring the licensed version that expires as it shows. As a matter of fact it insist that you are the one who requested to install this program as stated on its message:

License expiration alert
Antivirus software error
Antivirus software not found on this computer
You’ve requested the function that requires installed antivirus software.
Without antivirus software you are very vulnerable to computer viruses, including infected email attachments, viruses that attack over the internet, spyware that is introduced by virus infections.

Virus Protection
Privacy Center did not find antivirus software on this computer.

What are the Symptoms of Antivirus Software Error Infection?

It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “agent.exe”
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D032570A-5F63-4812-A094-87D007C23012}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\spbho.TIEBHO
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{D032570A-5F63-4812-A094-87D007C23012}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Privacy center

The threat will drop the following malicious files:
c:\Program Files\Privacy center
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\agent.exe
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\pc.exe
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\uninstall.exe
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sc\ca.crt
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sc\libeay32.dll
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sc\libssl32.dll
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sc\OemWin2k.inf
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sc\openvpn.exe
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sc\tap0801.sys
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sc\tapinstall.exe
c:\Program Files\Privacy center\tools\sp\spbho.dll
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\dbases\cg.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\dbases\mw.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\dbases\rd.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\dbases\sc.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\dbases\sm.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\dbases\sp.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\keys\cg.key
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\keys\rd.key
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\keys\sc.key
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\keys\sp.key
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\temp\settings.ini
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Privacy center\temp\spfilter 

How to Remove Antivirus Software Error Manually

1. Restart your computer in SafeMode
- After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
- From the selections, Select SafeMode

2. Remove Registry entries that the threat added. You MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
- Click Start > Run
- Type in the field, regedit
- Navigate and look for the registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary

3. Delete malicious files that the threat added:
- Base on the given location above, browse and delete the file
- If no location is given, click Start>Search> and search for the files.
- If cannot be deleted, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access Task Manager, see if the file is running in the process. If it is, select the file and click End Process. Perform file delete again.

4. Scan computer with Antivirus Program
- Update antivirus program
- Scan computer and delete all detected threats.

How to Easily Remove Antivirus Software Error

1. Download and run Removal Tool to stop this fake alert