How to remove Awola?
What is Awola?
Awola (also known as Awola 6.0) is a rogue anti-spyware application that has been released on September 24, 2007. Although it has to be downloaded and installed by the user, here Awola’s similarities with legitimate spyware removers end.
Once you have it installed, Awola Antispyware 6.0 offers you to perform a free scan of your system for spyware. As soon as it is complete, the parasite shows you a counterfeit and exaggerated scan report full of imaginary errors. Then, you are offered to purchase the “full” Awola version, which is as full of it as the “demo”. DO NOT buy this counterfeit software! Awola is just a scammer tool designed to royally rip you off. Remove Awola immediately if you have it in your system. This will spare you the time and the “pleasant” discovery of being scammed later.
Awola is Extremely dangerous
Awola is a corrupt Anti-Spyware program Awola may spread via Trojans Awola may display fake security messages Awola may install additional spyware to your computer Awola may repair its files, spread or update by itself Awola violates your privacy and compromises your security
Awola screenshots
Manual Awola removal
Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Awola, 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 Awola processes:
Remove these Awola Registry Entries:
Remove these Awola files:
Awola is classified as Rogue Anti-Spyware. After infecting a user’s system, it proceeds to scare its victim into buying the “product” by displaying fake security messages, stating that your computer is infected with spyware and only Awola can help you to remove it after you download the trial version. As soon as the victim downloads Awola trial version, it pretends to scan your computer and shows a grossly exaggerated amount of non-existent errors. Then, Awola offers to buy the full version to fix these false errors. If the user agrees, Awola does not only fix the errors, but it also takes the user’s money and may even install additional spyware into the victim’s computer.
Some Rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Awola, may offer users to buy it after the victim clicks on a banner or a pop-up while surfing the internet. Usually, a Trojan is installed to a victim’s computer after clicking on the advertisement. It then proceeds to download or even install Awola, which is another way for Rogue Anti-Spyware to spread itself.
Most of rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Awola, is nearly impossible to remove manually.
I just put a computer on the network that has Internet access at the Fire Dept.
AWOLA managed to find it’s way in. Yes, this is a pain to remove manually. And the antivirus software did not recognize it as a problem. I’m guessing that is because it did such a good job “installing” it’s self to look legit.
The spyhunter3 program did not work to remove the program. What a waste of $30.00
Man this awola program is bad news. Good thing my company is giving me a new computer in a month or so.
Ben Johnson
Yes, we do not recomend spyhunter, even its latest version for now. Try spyware doctor or SuperAntiSpyware.
Im just cheking to see if the comments are real. today is dec 19. awola has totally effed up my girlfriends POS pc for her business. If we reformat, we lose the customer database.cant risk downloading another awola!
I simply don’t believe it. How can I ever trust anyone? Awola messed me up bigtime. I’m afraid of removing it with 2-virus for fear they might be just as evil. How do I know these comments are legit? I’m so afraid. Shivering in fetal position naked on floor. Help me….
Awola is the worst!!! It’s so annoying,and hard to remove. It doesin’t matter what I have done,Including using spybot S&D also whenever I remove it,It such recreates itself!! talk about frustration.
Awola is a bastard. Is there any way to stop this beast?! My son went onto the net and ‘accidently’ downloaded the son of gun. My boy only wanted to play another internet game. My desktop page changed to black with a note ‘ You have been infected’. Everytime I change to my sons face for the desktop, the damn thing reverts to the black screen again and again. When I qued up the screen saver protocols I noticed a new screen saver from the net stating ‘default’. I cannot remove this ‘default’screen saver. Somehow, some internet pro needs to put Awola ‘out of business’ now!
Yeah I was almost scammed by Awola. I got a pop-up for fake spyware in my toolbar at the bottom of the screen. I was just about to subscribe to Awola to get rid of it but I looked up up online and luckily I found out that it was a fake and a scam. Now I’m just checking to see if this site is legit or not. Jeez, spyware blows the big one.
What i would like to do to the people of awola zzzzzzip just been sniped thats one way .or we can start calling for better regulations from senate and the house of rep . just start calling your senator and congressman
well, the pop-up scan screen pop-ed up every 9 seconds for two days !!! could not remove it. wrote the awola company about this problem. did not reply to my e-mails. had to wipe and reload my computer.
that’s all you need to know about this bullshit product
I still use win 98se, so hopefully enough of this information reflects the process for later versions. For 98 go to “Run” under the “Start” menu and enter “msconfig” sans the quotation marks, of course. Click “OK” then choose the “Startup” tab in the applet that appears, called “System Configuration Utility”. Under Startup you will see a list of files with checked boxes beside them. AWOLA is the one named “Microsoft Windows Adapter 5.1 3214″ under “C:\Windows\Application Data\ahavc.exe”. Uncheck the box next to it then click “OK” or “Apply”. Windows will prompt the necessary system restart. Then after restarting use whatever software you have to remove AWOLA’s components. (I used Norton System Utilties’ Wipe Info.) Be sure to have ahavc.exe removed from the Application Data folder. That should go first. Then visit “Program Files” under C: to remove the Awola folder, and then back to C: to remove “Installer” which has a green wheel for an Icon. There will be a file that now belongs to AWOLA called “Win386.SWP”. This might be the one remaining component that can’t be removed. However, what was done made big changes and I no longer have to deal with the prompts. It’s not known if AWOLA is still working behind the scenes, but I thank God for the changes. I went to “Winfile” which can be accessed through “Run” to change the file’s association in the hopes of confusing AWOLA’s processes. It was changed from Win386.SWP to Win386.TIF. (It won’t allow itself to be renamed.) But, despite all the setbacks you can beat it if you try!
i hate awola. it keeps on poping up. god dammit i wish there wasa free anti virus thing to delete it ONCE AND FOR ALL
The pop-up AWOLA entered inspite of having AVG on the computer. I did not down-load it. Now I will clean-up my computer and start from scratch because I am tired of the possibility of having remnants. Unfortunately, we need to have recourse to some form of punishment for the persons who are perpetrating the crime of passing this mal-ware around.
This hides as a process “installer.exe” To get rid of it munally this process must be terminated in the task manager. This is the round crossed tray icon in the system tray. There is also another tray icon that pops up the error messages. This must be terminated also or it will rebuild and restart “installer.exe” I think the name of this morphs. When it is terminated the tray icon will dissapear. It has an odd 4 or 5 character name. Good luck.. This is a sneaky one!
J
I got rid of Awola and it’s no longer coming up, but it apparently did something else to my machine to cause 100% CPU usage all the time on my computer. Damn.
yes this site does work for the most part but i found additional files that need to be removed. you can remove awola and still get the error message. the file’s name does change. and it is found in the app. folder on one of the computers profiles it was lbqhb.exe on the other it was rpwoe.exe you might need to make sure hidden files are shown.
i need this taken out
I was able to get rid of AWOLA on my win xp home system by doing a system restore back to a date before it was loaded. I did it from the window help & support center click on undo changes to your computer with system restore. After the restore I installed firefox newest version that runs a resident checker to make sure no register entries are done that I do not know about. Good luck it took me 4 hrs total.
We recieved this nasty nasty virus through itunes. Windows itself is a virus, but this is ridiculous.
Your recommendation for manual removal
are top flight. Hopefully, my machine is
Awola free now. Thanks so much.
That was a bad one.
What a nasty bitch mother this virus has been. Finally located all the files to delete. The program file for the task bar messages does change names, mine was jkbli.exe. DO NOT TRUST SPYHUNTER OR ANY OTHER SPYWARE SITE ADVERTIZED. Just follow directions for manual removal. Thanks to everyones comments, most were very helpful.
How do I get rid of this thing? Every like 2 seconds a pop up comes up that says “your computer is infected” super antispyware of whatever did not work!
I’m not sure how this got on to my computer. Interstingly enough it popped up as soon as I restarted my computer after upgrading to Internet Explorer 7. I find that very odd. At first I thought it was some trial software that was downloaded along with the new program but then I VERY SOON (about every 5 seconds!) realized this was malware. I also kept getting the pop up that I was infected. Even if you are having trouble removing it, try this for at least a short term solution to being free of the pop up: RIGHT CLICK ON THE TASK BAR, OPEN “CUSTOMIZE NOTIFICATIONS” (or something similar) AND SELECT THE ICON THAT GIVES THE POP UP OVER AND OVER TO “ALWAYS HIDE”. This helped me a whole lot while I was trying to manually remove the program. I wasn’t getting uber annoyed with the pop up. I’m still in the process of removing files. I’ll try and check back with an update on whether or not your methods helped. Although, I have found a heck of a lot and terminated process and root keys and files so far. Here’s to hoping…
Okay. I managed to remove the pop up that says: You computer is infected! Windows…blah blah blah.
I use a Windows XP by the way. Okay. First go to task manager. That can be done by pressing this on your keyboard: CTRL + ALT+ DELETE at the same time. Go to processes, and click image name. And find: installer. exe or kypim.exe. If you cannot find the two, find anything that has a four to five word that seems odd to you. Go to google or your preferred search engine and type it and check what it is. Once you find something that you find is odd, end the process.
Then, go to C:/ and click Program files. Find the name: installer. exe or kypim.exe, or the one that you found. DELETE IT. Go to the recycle bin and empty your recycle bin. That’s how it stopped for me. I also used Tinkerbell’s advice for the windows 98 and fiddler’s advice.
It would also be wise to delete any downloads you made on the day that awola was on your computer (if possible). Conduct a search in My Computer and go to “All Files and Folders” type awola. Go to advanced options or similar, and check: Search System folders, Search Hidden Files and Folders, and Search subfolders. Delete anything that has awola in it. I haven’t restarted my computer to find out if this will be permanent, but currently, no “YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED” pop ups.
It’s so damn annoying. I was scared half to death, and my friend says that it might be a virus. I googled it, and yes, it’s a damn virus. Awola is a bullshitting bastard, and it’s so damn annoying. It was only released recently in September 2007, so I don’t think anyone knows about it but the people who’s infected with it.
A note about the CPU usage being at 100%… My CPU icon has been lighting up green like when it is close to 100%. However, when I actually click and check it, it’s fine. I don’t know if this is another piece that AWOLA was able to program in (to have your CPU warning icon light up when it’s fine). I noticed a few people commented on the CPU at 100%, so it might be another false icon?
Thanks to s.c instructions I could get rid of AWOLA but in this case my virus was detected as install.exe and eewjr.exe, once I got rid of those two awola stopped. try it!!
Anya’s comments helped. I think the fact that the pop up popped up every 5 secs is what got everyone very annoyed.
Well Spyware Doctor is the real deal. I’ve used it many times. It’s a real life saver.
And i am not bullshitting…
I used PCTools Spyware doctor to confirm that I have the Awola spyware. I looked far and wide and in the end, I just used Awola’s own uninstall choice in my start menu (it had installed itself there). Oddly enough, that seemed to work. PCTools Spyware doctor says its gone and a manual check of the registry, and of the system files shows that it’s gone.
Weird, but it worked. To note, I had Awola 6.0.
Hi I got (awole) on my computer too it took me a half hour to get it
off. I do not have any spyware on my computer maybe now i will get
some.