Fake AVG Antivirus 2011
Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 is a very devious rogue security program that totally reproduce the legitimate anti-virus application in order to completely deceive its victims. To easily sopt the difference, this Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 will just pop-up when an infected web site is visited while the real one can only be downloaded from www.avg.com and its other fileserver. If this counterfeit program started to appear on computer without any intervention on your part, then you should immediately scan the computer with an anti-malware solution. PC must have been compromised during web browsing activities. Malicious web sites may have been visited and unknowingly got infected with a Trojan. It can also be a caused of a contracted file downloaded from file-sharing networks. There are a number of possibilities to have this fake AVG Antivirus 2011 penetrate a system without a notice.
Once it has successfully invaded a computer, similar symptoms will appear. Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 will begin to display scary alerts and warning messages. It also detects virus, malware and worms on the computer even these threats does not really exists. Here are some examples:
Warning! Active Virus Detected!
Threat Detected: Email-Worm.Zhelatin
Infected file:
Action taken: Application Blocked
Description: Worm Email-Worm.Zhelatin.vy is virus-like malware with destructive code, and is able to mutate, replacing its own code by itself. This makes Email-Worm.Zhelatin.vy very dangerous, hard to find, and difficult to delete. Like most viruses, worm Email-Worm-Zhelatin.vy may spread to other computers by secretly emailing themselves to Internet users in your address book.
Warning! Identity theft attempt detected!
Attacker IP:
Attack Target: Microsoft Corp. Keys
Description: Remote host tries to get access to your personal information.
Every acts of Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 on the system will aim to persuade users into getting the licensed version of this useless application. It will repeatedly alarm users of great danger caused by detected infection. Internet browsing will also be manipulated and redirected to a predefined malicious websites. In order to stop these irregularities, Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 must be completely remove from the computer. We have provided a step-by-step procedure that you can performed to get rid of this unwanted application.
| Type | Rogue |
| Sub-Type | FakeAV |
| Aliases | |
| OS Affected | Windows |
| Detected By | MalwareBytes |
What are the Symptoms of Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 Infection?
It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AVG Antivirus 2011
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “AVG Antivirus 2011?
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\AVG Antivirus 2011
The threat will drop the following malicious files:
AVG Antivirus 2011.exe
C:\Program Files\AVG Antivirus 2011\avg.exe
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AVG Antivirus 2011.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AVG\AVG Antivirus 2011.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\AVG\Uninstall.lnk
%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Desktop\AVG Antivirus 2011.lnk
%Program Files%\AVG Antivirus 2011\
%Program Files%\AVG Antivirus 2011\AVG Antivirus 2011.exe
How to Remove Fake AVG Antivirus 2011 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 Fake AVG Antivirus 2011
1. Download and run Removal Tool to remove this computer threat.
Windows Shield Center McAVG and Mc AVG 2011
I think these fake antivirus people are utter cads. I wish I understood how to remove it if it descended on my innocent laptop…….but of course I do call David!