Wednesday, February 2, 2011

McAVG Removal GuideMcAVG Removal Guide

McAVG Removal Guide
McAVG is a fake antivirus program that cannot detect and remove any kind of virus, malware or trojan. However, McAVG pretends to be a legitimate antivirus which can protect computers from the attack malwares. Once McAVG is installed on the computer, it will start automatically when Windows boot. Then McAVG will do a fake scan on the computer and will definitely scare the user with pop ups which shows that the computer has been infected by a lot of malwares. McAVG will repeatedly shows the pop ups to urge the user to purchase the full version of McAVG so that to remove all the threats. However, McAVG cannot detect and remove any kind of virus, malware and trojan.

McAVG can be removed by stopping the processes and removing the files by using Emsisoft HiJackFree. Then the user should remove the registry entries added or modified by McAVG shown in the removal guide below. All files related to McAVG must be deleted.

McAVG should be removed immediately!

McAVG Removal Guide
Kill Process
(How to kill a process effectively?)
%AppData%\[random].exe

Delete Registry
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = %UserProfile%\Application Data\[random].exe

Remove Folders and Files
%AppData%\[random].exe

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