How to remove A-Fast Antivirus

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A-Fast Antivirus is a malicious anti-spyware application that closely resembles any other legitimate antivirus program to trick users into purchasing its license. This malicious application reaches the user’s computer via Trojans that get downloaded from malicious websites. Once established on the user’s system, A-Fast Antivirus loads itself as a startup service at boot time. A-Fast Antivirus proceeds to perform a large number of fake security scans on the system, returning results that state that the computer is dangerously infected with a number of non-existent viruses. It also generates fake warning pop-ups from the Windows taskbar. Finally A-Fast Antivirus urges the user to purchase a license to the ‘full’ version of the software, claiming that the currently installed ‘trial’ version is incapable of cleaning the detected false ‘threats’. However, all users should be aware that this is a trick aimed at swindling their money, as no version of A-Fast Antivirus can scan or clean any computer. Here Remove A-Fast Antivirus you will get more infos about how to remove A-Fast Antivirus.

The following chapters will show you how to remove A-Fast Antivirus. This requires the stopping of processes, deletion of files and folders and the removal of registry entries.

File Removal Instructions

The first step in A-Fast Antivirus removal is to kill the following process:

• A-Fast.exe

The next step is to remove the following files and folders:

Windows XP:

• %UserProfile%\Desktop\A-fast Antivirus.lnk
• c:\Program Files\A-fast
• c:\Program Files\A-fast\A-fast.exe

Windows Vista/7:

• %User%\Desktop\A-fast Antivirus.lnk
• c:\Program Files\A-fast
• c:\Program Files\A-fast\A-fast.exe

Once the above two steps have been completed, your hard disk no longer contains any instances of A-Fast Antivirus. In order to be certain of this aspect it is recommended to scan the entire PC using genuine antivirus software such as Spyware Doctor with Antivirus.

Registry Removal Instructions

File removal alone is not sufficient to completely remove A-Fast Antivirus. It is necessary to delete the following keys and settings from the registry as well:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\A-fast
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = “1″
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DosableTaskMgr” = “0″
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “fast”
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\StandardProfile\AuthorizedApplications\List “C:\Program Files\A-fast\A-fast.exe”

Now it is safe to say that you have successfully removed A-Fast Antivirus from your system.

Tips & Tricks

Even though an inexperienced computer user may have full knowledge on how to remove A-Fast Antivirus, it is not recommended that they attempt it as any mistake made during removal could cause damage to the system. Therefore inexperienced users are advised to make use of a web-based malware scanning/cleaning service such as www.onlinecomputerrepair.org or legitimate antivirus software such as Spyware Doctor with Antivirus to remove A-Fast Antivirus properly and securely.