Comments on: Awola

By: tom

tom — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:09:31 +0000

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.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:55:37 +0000

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.

By: Reath

Reath — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:36:05 +0000

Well Spyware Doctor is the real deal. I’ve used it many times. It’s a real life saver.
And i am not bullshitting…

By: Kanoe

Kanoe — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:37:16 +0000

Anya’s comments helped. I think the fact that the pop up popped up every 5 secs is what got everyone very annoyed.

By: krlitoz5

krlitoz5 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:48:58 +0000

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!!

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:04:52 +0000

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?

By: s.c

s.c — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:13:19 +0000

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.

By: Anya

Anya — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:05:50 +0000

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…

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:56:25 +0000

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!

By: T.W.

T.W. — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:31:58 +0000

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.

By: motrek

motrek — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:44:38 +0000

Your recommendation for manual removal
are top flight. Hopefully, my machine is
Awola free now. Thanks so much.
That was a bad one.

By: charles

charles — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:22:20 +0000

We recieved this nasty nasty virus through itunes. Windows itself is a virus, but this is ridiculous.

By: mlb62

mlb62 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:05:48 +0000

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.

By: billie

billie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:41:15 +0000

i need this taken out

By: Drew lowe

Drew lowe — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:09:27 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:31:14 +0000

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.

By: fiddler

fiddler — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:07:25 +0000

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!

By: Kumar

Kumar — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:19:26 +0000

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.

By: crystal

crystal — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:22:22 +0000

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

By: Tinkerbell

Tinkerbell — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:03:48 +0000

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!