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How to remove Antiaid.com?

November 2nd, 2009

What is Antiaid.com?

Antiaid.com is the homepage of the rogue anti-spyware program AntiAID. You are unlikely to ever encounter this website, unless your system has been infected by trojans related to the AntiAID scam. The mission of Antiaid.com is to portray AntiAID – a completely useless program – in a favorable way so as to convince users to purchase the parasite’s so-called “full version”. This website contains a lot of misleading information and sells the software “Virus Protector”, which is actually AntiAID.

Do not trust this website, and remove AntiAID immediatelly upon detection.


Antiaid.com is Dangerous

arrow Antiaid.com is a parasitic Browser Hijacker
arrow Antiaid.com may show numerous annoying advertisements
arrow Antiaid.com logs your internet browsing history
arrow Antiaid.com will replace (hijack) your browser homepage
arrow Antiaid.com may spread additional spyware
arrow Antiaid.com violates your privacy and compromises your security
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for Antiaid.com detection

Note: Spyware Doctor trial provides detection of parasite like Antiaid.com and assists in its removal for free. You can remove detected files, processes and registry entries yourself or purchase a full version.



Antiaid.com screenshots


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Manual Antiaid.com removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Antiaid.com, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using Spyware Doctor or other malware and spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.
Stop these Antiaid.com processes:
Remove these Antiaid.com Registry Entries:
Remove these Antiaid.com files:
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other Antiaid.com infected files and get help in Antiaid.com removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing Antiaid.com and similar threats.

Antiaid.com is classified as a Browser Hijacker, which means its parasitic damage payload consists of hijacking your browser homepage, error page, or search page with its own, mostly a commercial site of its creators, forcing you to accumulate force hits to a particular website to make it more popular or by using pay-per-click sites to earn money.

The easiest way for a Browser Hijacker such as Antiaid.com to infect your computer is to exploit certain ActiveX controls and other security holes in your Internet Explorer browser. By browsing insecure websites on the internet, users may encounter various pop-ups, which secretly install Browser Hijackers like Antiaid.com on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as Antiaid.com completes its operations, the overall browser stability and performance severely degrade, making it nearly impossible to surf the web normally.


How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Browser Hijacker such as Antiaid.com?

Slow internet connection: Browser Helper Objects are constantly using your internet connection to send your private information to remote servers, as well as receive ads and pop-ups from third party servers, which causes much slower internet connection speed and overall connection instability.
Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Browser Hijacker keeps track of your internet browsing habits, sending your browsing history data to remote servers, owned by third party companies that use this information to advertise their products via numerous pop-ups, toolbars, hijacked homepages and spam letters. All these undesirable advertising methods are used on the victims of Browser Hijackers.

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