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Rapid Antivirus

9 October 2008

Rapid Antivirus (RapidAntivirus) is an additional to the long list of counterfeit antivirus applications that continuously spreading the internet. Authors of bogus programs such as Rapid Antivirus are seeing this illegal activities as an easy way of earning money.

Aliases:
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Risk Level: Medium

File Size: Varies

Affected System: Windows

Common Symptoms:
1. Internet browser will be redirected to the following URL:

  • security-check-center.com
  • rapid-antivir2009.com
  • rapidantiviruslivescan.com
  • radipantivirus.com
  • rapidantivir.com

2. Computers may display Rapid Antivirus scanner and false results to convince users to acquire the registered version of the program.

3. It may pop-up an alert like:
“Rapid Antivirus Firewall has blocked a program from accessing the Internet“

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14 Comments »

  • 1 }
    webmaster (author) said:

    1. Download Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware (mbam-setup.exe) and save it on your Desktop.
    2. After downloading, double-click on mbam-setup.exe to install the application.
    3. Follow the prompts and install as “default” only
    4. Before the installation completes, check on the following prompts:
    - Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
    - Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
    5. Click “Finish.” Program will run automatically and you will be prompt to update the program before doing a scan. Please update.
    6. Scan your computer thoroughly.
    7. When scanning is finished click on the “Show Results”
    8. Make sure that all detected threats are marked, click on Remove Selected.
    9. Restart your computer.

    Note: Rapid Antivirus may prevent mbam-setup.exe from downloading and running. You can download and rename this program from a different computer before running it on infected system.

    9 October 2008 at 9:45 am
  • 2 }
    Chris said:

    Yes that did it in – thanks

    10 October 2008 at 4:55 am
  • 3 }
    predator said:

    thnk you man!!!..saludos

    7 November 2008 at 3:49 pm
  • 4 }
    Rob said:

    Help. Rapid Antivirus is preventing me from downloading the removal tool, or ANY type of spyware removal. I’ve tried to edit the system registry as suggested on other sites, as well as deleted any instances of it I could find. But its still there!

    28 November 2008 at 5:43 am
  • 5 }
    I removed it! said:

    Copy the removal software to a cd and then save that file onto your desktop.

    then reboot your computer and select the ‘f8′ when the ‘safe mode’ come up select ‘safe mode with networking’. Then select the Icon that you copied from the cd onto the desktop and run it. That should do it.

    I did it today and it worked. I did not know that part of the scheme was to block the networking port that allows you to open the internet.

    29 November 2008 at 2:20 am
  • 6 }
    Gratefull said:

    Thanks Webmaster,

    I downloaded Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and it removed all the Rapid-Antivirus viruses, for which my anti-virus could not.

    7 December 2008 at 11:49 am
  • 7 }
    hitting the wall said:

    hi- comforted to know am not the only one with the issue(s). issue(s) on pc include all searches for anti spyware or anti virus etcc are hijacked or even on google but bogus sites. those sites will also not load- even with a new browser instead of IE (Firefox)

    avg cant update to catch it, cannot visit sites that would help, ie mcaffee, norton, trend, pcpitstop even now malwarebytes. did squeak the download (malwarebytes)somehow, but it will not run (xp home) even with the ‘run as option, the same in safe mode will not run.

    have killed processes via task man- have deleted registry entries listed, any folder or anything with reference to it, deleted all offline temp files, cleaned out pre-fetch as there were some questionable items there as well.

    cheched for browser addons, toolbars, add remove programs and even checked the hosts file!!!!! wow they didn’t miss much with this one…. am thinking at this point to remove the drive and slave it on another pc and scan it that way so that windows will not have to be booted WHEW what a PITA. any thoughts on slaving off the drive for cleaning appreciated.

    thanks for letting me rave!

    10 December 2008 at 5:29 am
  • 8 }
    Kasturi said:

    Thanks… the virus finally went off at last… My computer is back after trying your method… You rock!!!!

    14 December 2008 at 12:38 am
  • 9 }
    ed said:

    my laptop had it and after i removed the virus and re-boot i still get the icon in my system tray to start the virus again. my desktop just has the starting icon for the virus.

    I’ve run spyhunter, e-trust armor, microtrend to remove it and search for the bug and i can’t find anything.

    any help is happy

    18 December 2008 at 3:28 pm
  • 10 }
    maribeth said:

    I’m using a different computer to find how to get it off our desktop. It wouldn’t let me on the internet to download the program suggested in the first post here, but I got on like this. Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > run IE with no add-ons.
    That worked for me, and the other computer is currently running the Malwarebytes program system scan. If it works – thank youuuu so much. If it doesn’t – thanks anyways. (:

    3 January 2009 at 8:30 pm
  • 11 }
    Damien said:

    I followed the instructions exactly and, so far so good!!`Thanks this seems to have worked.

    4 January 2009 at 9:50 am
  • 12 }
    Problem solved :) said:

    Rapid Antivirus prevented downloads of any antivirus or anti-malware programs on my computer. I had to download the suggested program above to another computer, save it to a disk and transfer this to my infected system. I followed the instructions to the letter and it worked! My system is clean! Thank you so much for your help!

    6 January 2009 at 2:04 pm
  • 13 }
    Leslie said:

    I paid for the program and yet to receive anything. It has been almost a month since paid right at $70.00.

    Thank u

    27 February 2009 at 4:26 pm
  • 14 }
    dupfin said:

    hi i cant even bring up my internet blocked me out i cant even reset the comp till befor got the virus what should i do? thx

    5 March 2009 at 5:09 pm

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