Personal Antivirus also known as PAV is a potentially unwanted program that can be dropped onto computers by a trojan by just visiting a malicious websites such as power-virus-scannerv2.com, as the latest one. Personal Antivirus will perform virus scanning and produce exaggerated results on computer, a way to trick users to register the program. It will display a message“Warning!!! Your computer contains various types of adware and viruses.”
Other known payloads Personal Antivirus includes disabling of installed security programs on compromised computer, redirecting of internet browser and blocking of internet access among others.
Aliases:
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Risk Level: Medium
File Size: Varies
Affected System: Windows
Common Symptoms:
1. A popup about threat called Critical System Warning, Security Violation Error, Bloodhound.PDF.8, Trojan.Mdropper.AC and W32.SillyFDC.BAZ is displayed.
2. It will hijack internet browser of victims computer and will be redirected to
- explorersecurityhelper.com
- basicsystemscannerv6.com
- best-antispyware-scannerv2.com
- livesecuredscannerv2.com
- livesecuredscannerv7.com
- mysafecomputerscan.com
- personalsafescanner.com
- power-virus-scannerv2.com
- nusecurityshields.com
- livefolderscannerv6.com
- antimalwareproonlinescanv3.com
- securedantivirusonlinescanner.com
- antispywarepcscanner.com
2 Responses for "Personal Antivirus"
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: Some malware 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.
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