How to Remove Personal Antivirus (Removal Instructions)

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Personal Antivirus, or PersonalAntivirus, is a rogue anti-spyware application. Personal Antivirus is a clone of General Antivirus and Internet Antivirus Pro which are all know to be rogue anti-spyware applications. Personal Antivirus alerts you through many bogus popup messages and system scan results of computer infections. These results should not be trusted as they are used as a scare tactic to force you into purchasing the Personal Antivirus program.

Personal Antivirus is known to be installed without notice to you through a Trojan horse called Vundo. Personal Antivirus may also be advertised on a malicious website that could have been developed by the same attackers as General Antivirus or Internet Antivirus Pro. You should take actions to detect and remove Personal Antivirus with a trust-worthy spyware removal program before it is able to cause damage to your computer.

Automated Detection for Personal Antivirus

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Personal Antivirus Manual Removal Instructions

Stop Personal Antivirus system processes:

Security Software.exe
PersonalAV.exe
%PROGRAMFILES%\\PAV\\pav.exe
pav.exe
PersonalAntivirus[1].exe
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\iv.exe
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Windows\\winlogon.exe
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Windows\\services.exe
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\unins000.exe
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\PerAvir.exe

Unregister Personal Antivirus DLLs:

wincontrol.dll

Remove Personal Antivirus files:

Security Software.exe
PersonalAV.exe
PersonalAV
wincontrol.dll
pav.exe
PersonalAntivirus[1].exe
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\iv.exe
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Windows\\winlogon.exe
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Windows\\services.exe
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Windows\\pguard.ini
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Windows\\log.txt
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\db\\Urls.inf
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\db\\Timeout.inf
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\db\\config.cfg
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\db
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\Uninstall Personal Antivirus.lnk
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\iPSh.png
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\iMSh.png
%UserProfile%\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\iGSh.png
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\uill.ini
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\settings.ini
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus\\unins000.exe
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Personal Antivirus
%UserProfile%\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Quick Launch\\Personal Antivirus.lnk
c:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Personal Antivirus\\Personal Antivirus Home Page.lnk
c:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Personal Antivirus\\Personal Antivirus.lnk
c:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Personal Antivirus\\Purchase License.lnk
c:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Personal Antivirus
c:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Desktop\\Personal Antivirus.lnk
c:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\log.txt
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\Languages\\IAIt.lng
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\Languages\\IAGer.lng
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\Languages\\IAFr.lng
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\Languages\\IAEs.lng
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\Languages
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\db\\ia080618x.db
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\db\\ia080614.db
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\db\\DBInfo.ver
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\db
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\working.log
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\unins000.dat
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\Explorer.ico
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\activate.ico
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\uninstall.ico
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus\\PerAvir.exe
c:\\Program Files\\Personal Antivirus

Remove Personal Antivirus registry values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\Root\\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\ITGrdEngine
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Uninstall\\Personal Antivirus_is1
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run "Personal Antivirus"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer "PrS"

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23 Responses to “Personal Antivirus”

1. Gene Williams Says:
   April 26th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

   got the PAV while working the Publisher Clearinghouse “search and win”,suddenly got a red screen and warning to exit site immediatly,site is infected.Could not access AVG,or Windows security and updates,every location”my documents,my computer,etc.all showed red screen and warning,”files infected”.Telephoned Microsoft,Tech and I worked on killing PAV,thought we had it done using “Safety.live.com”. Afterwards it started all kinds of popups, and found it had actually infected AVG free 8.0, which I then uninstalled;on further searching found it in (C:program files\pav\pav.exe process 1880,and Adobe acrobat. At this point I took drastic measure of using the “restore” point of ten days earlier, then run Safety.live again and updated security with Microsoft. No more problems,but that was a lot of work,4 hrs. I can’t afford the really good programs,but I thought this response might prove useful to you in showing just how sneaky and hard to get rid of this thing is.

2. leila lehmkuhl Says:
   May 9th, 2009 at 12:42 am

   FIRST OF ALL, I AM NOT HAPPY WITH YOUR STUPID ANTIVIRUS. IT IS MESSING UP MY PC AND I DONT HOW I GOT IT BUT I WANT IT UNINSTALLED. IT IS A MENACE. IT IS CRAP. TAKE IT OFF MY PC. I CANT DO MYSELF, AS I AM NOT A NERD OR WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO GET IT OFF. JUST TAKE THE DAM THING OFF HERE. THANKS

3. rajen govender Says:
   June 19th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

   please remove personal antivirous from my pc

4. Teresa Lowery Says:
   July 13th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

   pleas take the time to take this personal antivirus off my conpurter please I did not aks for it and I do not want it .so Please take it with you as yu read this .Teresa

5. tj slansky Says:
   August 7th, 2009 at 6:03 pm

   Last weekand they the PAV loaded on one of the computers. I e-mailed PAV answered on how to remove . which worked. The file was reloader again a week later. When I used the same instructions and clicked on uninstall icon it went away, but not the file program.

   I e-mailed PAV but not reply this time. Like a person said, whey would they tell you HOW to removed their SPY program from your computer. Everyone says you need a GOOD antivirus, this tell me MacAfee is useless.

   Reading the information above, it say you need to buy another removal program. Proably another of their own companies.

   What a person needs is a Good Baseball bat and pay the people a visit.

6. luwana Says:
   August 9th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

   i need personal antivir off my pc i do not like it at all because my pc say that ever thing is all right but they say that its not now im dis able and on a fix income i do not have no card they real need to do some about those people they r trying to make people buy some when they do not have the money please help me take this off my pc thank u

7. crystal Says:
   August 9th, 2009 at 8:11 pm

   i don’t want this personal antivirus on my computer so please take it off.

8. crystal Says:
   August 9th, 2009 at 8:14 pm

   i want it off my computer wait now

9. cristine Says:
   August 11th, 2009 at 10:38 am

   i hate this stupid personal antivirus!!!!! i tried to delete it from the programs but it says it is a critical system process and can’t be deleted. WHAT DO I DO TO GET THIS F****** THING OFF MY COMPUTER??????!!!!!!! help me people please!!!!!!!!!

10. luis mlopez Says:
    August 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    i wanth removed the personal antivirus

11. luis mlopez Says:
    August 15th, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    no antivirus

12. luis mlopez Says:
    August 15th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    i hate this stupid personal antivirus!!!!!!!!!!itrid 2 delete it from the progrms but it says it is a critical system process and can ‘t be deleted

13. Racheal Adams Says:
    August 17th, 2009 at 4:09 am

    man, this antivirus is killing me, need to get it off…bra tried some other way but they want me to purchase there product but to me if they can trick me into havin it on my computer they can show me how the hell to get it the hell off…help me please…

14. JustSomeNerd Says:
    August 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm

    Hey all you people shooting off your mouths telling the website to remove the “Personal Antivirus” from your machine that You didn’t ask for it…blah…blah..blah..
    READ THE TIP AGAIN..SLOWLY THIS TIME. This is a Tip forum telling you how to remove the virus file called “PERSONAL ANTIVIRUS” from your machine. They are not ‘putting it on’ your machine. So follow the instructions to take care of your own machine. And if you still don’t understand, then put your computer in a box and sell it because you are too stupid to read or to use a computer.

15. carolyn jocoy Says:
    August 27th, 2009 at 12:36 am

    Please remove personal antivirus

16. marcella Says:
    August 27th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    I have no ideal how this antivirus got downloaded onto my pc… I have uninstalled the program, matter of fact when I went into the control panel to uninstall it, PersonalAV wasn’t even there…this makes me so madddd..when I am trying to surf the web it pops up!!! Its ashame that you have to buy another program to get this off… I’m not buying it and eventually I will get it off of my pc…This is so terrible!!!

17. bridgett Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

    my gosh please help me and take this personal thing off my pc please help take it off here i have tryed everything and it will not delete i dont even no how it got on here i am going crazy.

18. lil mama Says:
    August 31st, 2009 at 1:23 pm

    please remove this personal av off my computer

19. chris is mad Says:
    September 2nd, 2009 at 5:19 pm

    I need this off but i cant download anything off this site cause when i click it it says site is down or moved I need this off. pleas help. ugh it popped up again that f***er program I NEED HELP!

20. southernbelle5317 Says:
    September 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    take this off HOW

21. Ron C. Says:
    September 6th, 2009 at 10:34 am

    Hey! Let’s all take a look at the information presented here. The info isn’t about the PAV, but how to REMOVE IT. Ladies and gentlemen – - the PAV is NOT – REPEAT NOT and anti-virus program. IT IS A VIRUS that presents as an ANTI-VIRUS. Once you have it, griping about it won’t fix it! Using the steps above will fix it. I have enountered this at least 5 times in my computer repair business. It has to MANUALLY removed in most cases – Norton, AVG, and McAfee may MAY NOT detect it – - if it does you can try to heal/inoculate or isolate it – - but that may not always work. Removing it from the REGISTRY MANUALLY as shown in these steps seems to be the best way to fix it.

    The folks who are providing you with this fix are NOT THE FOLKS WHO GAVE YOU THE VIRUS. Stop beating up on them – - as for the person who said “you are too stupid to own a computer”……that’s just not cool. Literally millions of people have gotten this virus because they received an ALERT that they had a VIRUS and to “CLICK HERE TO FIX” or something to that effect. Don’t be SO CLICK HAPPY. If you know that your Antivirus Program is Norton or AVG or McAfee – - the only time you would get an alert would be from those programs.

    YOU SHOULD SUSPECT ANYTHING that just POPS UP ON YOUR SCREEN you do not recogize. Oh – - and just because you are not in your Email or on the Internet (using Internext Explorer or Mozilla) does not mean YOU ARE NOT ONLINE. If you have a high speed, DLS, Cable, Satellite, etc…….you are ONLINE as soon as you power up your computer. BE CAREFUL OUT THERE………….and dont’ beat up on the people trying to help you. Follow the directions – - if you find it intimidating – (totally natural to some) then get someone to help you – - we all have a friend/family member who can help. Get them to use REMOTE ASSISTANCE if it works and connect and fix it for you. GOOD LUCK!

22. Melba Says:
    September 11th, 2009 at 8:19 am

    HI i have this personal anivirus something keeps popin up and blocking me from internet please help me take it off romove please

23. Eileen Parker Says:
    September 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    I can not get this off my computer and I want it off. I can’t go on line because that red screen up.

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