Anti-virus-1 Removal Guide:

**Our recommendation: Automatically Remove Anti-virus-1 with Spyware Doctor

What is Anti-virus-1?

Anti-virus-1 is a rogue antispyware program that is designed to scare you into purchasing a licensed version via aggressive false advertising.

**Note that Anti-virus-1 is NOT a legitimate spyware removal software**
 
Details:

Anti-virus-1 will typically infect your computer via one of two methods:

1. Trojan Vundo - if you are infected with the Vundo Trojan, you will then receive consistent popups that state that your computer is infected and you need to install XP Police Antivirus in order to protect your computer.

2. Fake Advertising - when visiting suspect websites, you will see popups from those sites that will inform you that your computer is infected and you need to install XP Police Antivirus in order to protect yourself.

Once downloaded and installed, Anti-virus-1 will configure itself to always run in the background by starting up automatically each time you reboot and start Windows. 

The program will then perform a scan of your computer and those scan results will show that you have a number of infections present.

The files listed in those scan results are either non-existent or are actual legitimate Windows files that it needs to run properly.  If the legitimate files end up being deleted, your computer may stop running altogether.

Also, while it is running you will continue to see constant fake security alerts informing you that your computer has any number of security risks - including crash screens, Blue Screens of Death, popups with messages such as "Spyware Activity Alert" or "Internal Conflict Alert", as well as a security message telling you that your copy of Anti-virus-1 is unregistered.

All of the scan results and alerts are false and are only designed to get you to purchase a licensed version of this bogus antispyware software.

Effects on Your computer:

- General slowness and performance issues
- Browser Hijack (changing search results or browser home pages)
- Certain websites blocked - often legitimate antispyware sites
- Additional malware and spyware being downloaded and installed without you knowing
- Various errors, freezing, and crashes

Screenshots:

Removal:

Automatic Removal (Highly Recommended):

1. Download and Install the Spyware Doctor, which can effectively remove Anti-virus-1 completely:

3. When scan is complete, click check all to ensure all infections are removed

4. Click Fix Checked to remove Anti-virus-1 and all other infections

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Manual Removal (not recommended)

If you are a trained computer professional, you can attempt to remove Anti-virus-1 by stopping the following process and removing the following files and regsitry

entries:

Processes:

av1.exe
antivirus1.exe

Files:

c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Anti-virus-1
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\AV1.cab
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\av1.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\AV1i.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\AV1i2.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\QWProtect.dll
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AV1\svchost.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Anti-virus-1.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Anti-virus-1\Anti-virus-1.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Anti-virus-1\Uninstall.lnk
 

Registry Entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\13376694984709702142491016734454
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "13376694984709702142491016734454"

Prevention of Future Attacks/Infections:

Ensure you have IntelliGuard running on Spyware Doctor.  This is their real time protection agent - it is the most advanced real-time protection you will find anywhere.  This will block all future spyware and malware from ever getting onto your computer. 

*Disclaimer - the information presented in the manual removal section of this guide is meant to be used as an aid to assist you with removing spyware infections by yourself and is to be used at your own risk.  As stated, we do not recommend manual spyware removal in any situation as this can cause any number of additional problems with your computer, including causing your computer to stop functioning altogether.  As such, thebestspywareremovers.com cannot be held responsible for problems that may occur with any manual spyware removal process that you willfully choose to engage in.*