Comments on: Advanced Virus Remover

By: Nichole

Nichole — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:45:47 +0000

I can’t even log in to safe mode now. it just logs me right back off! Help please.

By: stryke

stryke — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:49:45 +0000

uninstall audio drivers then restart computer and reinstall them

By: James

James — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:43:47 +0000

Finally got rid of the virus!

The information above on how to remove the virus helped a lot. Task manager and regedit was disabled. What worked for me was to go to the start menu, run, and tried to open regedit.exe multiple times. Finally it let me open one, and from there I searched for taskmgr and set the default value to 0. Now how do I get rid of the traces?

By: Jacob C.

Jacob C. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:23:12 +0000

Oh, and the audio is muted to, I try to change that and my security preferences but it says “The file is infected and cannot be opened”

By: Jacob C.

Jacob C. — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:21:36 +0000

I have the same problem, what used to take about 2 minutes now takes 30 minutes to an hour to visit 1 web page, we cant really afford any virus removal programs so we’re stuck with free versions. I’m trying to figure out how to find and remove trojans, viruses, and other things like that manually, but can’t get it. Got any advice?

By: chrisma

chrisma — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:31:56 +0000

my boss’ laptop got infected with this crazy advancedvirusremover, and the malwarebytes couldn’t get rid of it. I really think that the guys behind this spyware have upgraded their program.
I’ve figured out how to open regedit and task manager. No matter what, the virus is just a machine, coding, robot.. anything. we are supposed to be faster. So, when windows initialize first time after restarting, before the virus runs, click Ctrl+Alt+Del 2 or 3 times. It will bring up the Task Manager. Not done! You have to right away click start-run-type Regedit.exe, and enter. It will run the regedit before the virus notices. The reason to open Task manager in the first place is to distract the virus to ‘eliminate’ it first before it even noticing that we’re opening the regedit (but, be fast!). Once the Regedit is opened, set the DisableTaskManager to 0. Then you can right away open the Task Manager again. Once you do it, check the processes. There will be some odd applications. I figured out that the process is ‘updatewin86.exe’ and when you end it, you can delete the AVR10 file in the System32.
However, though I’ve got rid of it manually, I haven’t figured out the name of the application which allows it to resurrect again after we restart or turn off (dank it!). The programmers use so many different names, and it’s difficult to find it. The best way to eliminate it is by reformating windows.
Hope this information helps. It took me +- 6 hours to get all of this information

By: sham

sham — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:09:11 +0000

i have this same virus and have managed to remove most of it by using superantispyware, malwarebytes and avg + i also realised the virus didnt actually mess with my audio drivers but it just muted the volume so try checking this finally i would be gratefull if someone could tell me how the **** to get back on the net! ive been trying for days.

By: ME

ME — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:44:15 +0000

I have Norton Antivirsu on my pc. It got rid of the trojans but today I got infected by Advance virose Removal. I was wondering if I can download another spyware with norton ?? are they compatible ? or will it make my computer go crazy ?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:09:27 +0000

Tom : typically, there are couple trojans coming with parasites like this. Thus even after manual removal it is critical to scan with couple good antispywares and see if you got everything out. Most of them provide scan feature for free.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:24:12 +0000

Hi. I followed some of these instructions and after about a week I thought I had it removed. Now it’s back and I’m not able to even boot into safe mode (reboots after I select safe mode) this is terrible. Any thoughts?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:21:55 +0000

Okay, I’ve been having some serious issues here. I’ve heard several people mentioning pulling up regedit.exe. I tried running it, says it’s “infected” same with CMD, which it pulled the window up for a few milliseconds and then shut down saying “infected”. I don’t have any money to spare to buy any programs. We have mcafee via our internet provider. I tried using that and it doesn’t kill it either. And now I think it’s killed my search thing as well while I was trying to search for the infections.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:43:46 +0000

Saw this junk on the screen this morning. Asked my husband where it came from and he, too, clicked on the Sarah Palin website on aol. Gonna try all the suggestions, but I’m no computer whiz.

By: bri

bri — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:30:30 +0000

grrr….i dont get any sound or task manager. been working on this darn thing for hours.

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:37:06 +0000

AND INADDITION U CAN USE NETSCAPE AND IT WILL NOT BE BLOCKED

By: sharon

sharon — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:32:20 +0000

Can I delete this crap without paying for anything? And if not whats the cheapest thing to do?

By: zach

zach — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:15:38 +0000

well i was able to finally remove this thing off of my computer, but now I dont have any sound….

By: admin

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:41:14 +0000

Rudy: Start regedit and search for TaskMgr. Delete keys that disable it.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:21:51 +0000

My other computer has this virus. Some websites say delete the key “disable taks manager” and delete a process in the processes tab with all #’s or something that has a suspicious name. Should i trust this?

P.S. After you get this nuisance off your computer, it would be best to check the internet browser settings and make sure that the home startup page isnt set to thier home page (advancedvirusremover.com). Simply stumbling into the website will re-screw your computer.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:58:14 +0000

I would like to add.. I was initially unable to run things like regedit and taskmanager. I ended up masking taskmgr and email it over gmail from another machine, downloading it to the desktop, then using ‘run as’ and ran it as a different admin user than the current user. This let me get in and kill the processes. Once those were killed I was able to begin the work of cleaning the reg, etc. This is quite a bear. My son got it ‘trying to watch a movie’ he says. Good luck out there.

By: rudy

rudy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:57:41 +0000

Thought I should mention this; I picked up the virus in a link to a Sarah Palin
article on AOL home page.