Antivirus Action

October 7, 2010 webmaster Rogue, 1

Antivirus Action is a harmful computer application that was categorized already as rogue. Meaning, you have to keep distance from this program if you don’t want to mess up your computer. At first, Antivirus Action will look and promoted like a legitimate security program, but in fact, it was developed primarily to be spread and sold in a fraudulent manner with only a purpose of generating revenue for its authors. If executed on the computer, Antivirus Action issues exaggerated pop-up warning messages from your Windows task bar. An unexpected virus scan will run from time to time showing fake scan results with dozens of detected Trojan and viruses. These dirty tactics were purposely exhibited to influence users to activate the full version for a certain amount.

If you only knew how this malicious program can penetrate a computer, perhaps you will have a better idea on how to block them. First and foremost, Antivirus Action uses a Trojan to distribute itself by exploiting software that were outdated or with unpatched security holes. This weakness will be taken as advantage to plant Antivirus Action on the system without users knowledge. Also, a number of fake security web site will hosts a JavaScript file that will run a drive-by-download method on visitors computer, in which Antivirus Action will be installed automatically.

Type	Rogue
Sub-Type	FakeAV
Aliases
OS Affected	Windows
Detected By	MalwareBytes

What are the Symptoms of Antivirus Action Infection?

It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antivirus Action
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Antivirus Action”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Antivirus Action

The threat will drop the following malicious files:
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Antivirus Action\AVAction.exe
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\Antivirus Action.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Antivirus Action

How to Remove Antivirus Action 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 Action

1. Download and run Removal Tool to remove this computer threat.

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