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How to remove AVG-Online-Scanner.com?

What is AVG-Online-Scanner.com?

AVG-Online-Scanner.com is dangerous browser hijacker. It promotes rogue security tools like many browser hijackers do these days. However, AVG-Online-Scanner.com is far more advanced than majority of other browser hijackers. Once browser is redirected to avg-online-scanner.com, the website attempts to secretly infect visitor’s computer with WinSpywareProtect. The other danger of AVG-Online-Scanner.com is its name. ‘AVG-Online-Scanner.com’ sounds like it’s a website of reputable AVG antivirus and security software, but it’s not true.

Avg-online-scanner.com website promotes WinSpywareProtect, Antivirus Scanner and Web Spy Shield applications. All of them are corrupt and don’t function as anti-virus or anti-spyware. Nevertheless, AVG-Online-Scanner.com hijacker puts a lot of efforts to make people believe that they must purchase some of these softwares. It blocks users from visiting other websites and avg-online-scanner.com becomes the only one that can be viewed. The website mimics computer scan and constantly displays fake alerts about detected infections. It also shows explicit nudity pictures that are supposedly taken from visitor’s machine.

AVG-Online-Scanner.com is fraudulent and dangerous. It may download and install other malwares.


AVG-Online-Scanner.com is Dangerous

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

Manual AVG-Online-Scanner.com removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove AVG-Online-Scanner.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 automatic spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.

Stop these AVG-Online-Scanner.com processes:
Remove these AVG-Online-Scanner.com files:

AVG-Online-Scanner.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 AVG-Online-Scanner.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 AVG-Online-Scanner.com on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as AVG-Online-Scanner.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 AVG-Online-Scanner.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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  1. Emmanuel Banda
    February 11th, 2009 at 12:34 | #1

    I find AVG to remove some of the viruses which kaspersky and others can not.

  2. February 11th, 2009 at 15:24 | #2

    This is not real AVG and has nothing to do with same company.

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