Alpha anti virus!!!!!!

bogglyise

:mad: I have his 'thing' on my computer, i have tried various malawre and spyware removers and none of them seem to get rid of it!! I cannot remove i through the 'add or remove' function as it doesnot show up. Does anybody know of some software that actually WILL remove it??

Any advice will be greatefully recived and if it works i can finally breath a sigh of relief.......:T

mandyash

i had this on my computer on saturday and i like you tried alsorts to get rid of it, in the end i had to restore my computer for the day before and it sorted it !!

bogglyise

AHAAAAA!!!!! Thankyou mandymash i never thought of that lol derrr!!!! I will give it a try and see what happens.......but dose that mean that it has gone or its just hidden??

mandyash

i'm not sure ??? but i have had no problems at all since i restored it

mluton

bogglyise wrote: »

AHAAAAA!!!!! Thankyou mandymash i never thought of that lol derrr!!!! I will give it a try and see what happens.......but dose that mean that it has gone or its just hidden??

It restore your system files to a snapshot taken on the retore date, data files are kept as current.

mrbrightside842

Ooh I've just been googling for this. I was on facebook, and I'm not sure what happened as my toddler took control of the keyboard... not sure if she clicked a link or an advert, but something popped up saying there were viruses on my computer and I should install the alpha anti virus. I clicked cancel, but it took me to another page and started downloading it. I closed the page down, but the pop up kept coming up and telling me to download it, and again, each time I clicked no or cancel, it started the download. It wouldn't let me do anything or navigate away from it, so I just switched off the laptop. Am now running my regular virus check to see if it did anything! Very annoying!

mluton

Have you already run malwarebytes ?:http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

gaming_guy

follow the advise in this thread in the techie section.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1972919

aerostar

There is a LOT of help for this, a quick GOOGLE for

remove alpha antivirus gives lots of hits.

to start do this

1. Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

2. Navigate to the Processes tab.

3. Locate for a process called AlphaAV.exe and end it's process by click the End Process button at the bottom left hand corner of Task Manager and click Yes.

4. Continue with the instructions listed below to remove Alpha Antivirus completely.




Go here http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebytes-Anti-Malware/3000-8022_4-10804572.html?part=dl-10804572&subj=dl&!!!!!button

and download malwarebytes program.

when you have downloaded it rename the file to anyname.exe

The reason for the rename is that the alpha virus knows what names programs are that can remove it and will block it, so if you rename the program it does then not stop it from running.

Install MBAM and update it,

Then do a quick scan,

Also you can get an online scanner from superantispyware.com, that should do it as well.

here
http://www.superantispyware.com/onlinescan.html.

or downlod the free program, also you may need to rename it for the same reasons as mbam.

del1001

There's also a step by step guide to getting rid of Alpha Antivirus here -
http://www.spywareremove.com/removeAlphaAntivirus.html

bogglyise

WOOP WOOP!!!!! THANK YOU ALL SOOO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ADVICE!!!

'Specially you Aerostar - my little star!!! Nobody told me to re-name the file and it worked so all is well in my household again and Alpha Anti Virus has been sent to virus hell lol.