How to get rid of antivirus xp 2008?

Got rid of Antivirus XP 2008 & joke bluescreen, cant get rid of popups - help?

• I was able to get rid of Antivirus XP 2008 & joke_bluescreen.c and was able to get back screensavers, displays, and windows update back on but still can't get rid of pop ups (from ...show more

• Answer:

  I found out that many antivirus softwares like Norton, McAfee, SpyHunter etc. don’t even work for this virus. Even yours didn’t help. Here’s how to do it manually and safely. This is a detailed one. 1. Go to directory list C:\WINDOWS\system32 and sort by date to look for files created since the infection began. In my case there were three suspicious ones:- blphc1f1j0ev7l.scr lphc1f1j0ev7l.exe phc1f1j0ev7l.bmp Notice that part of the file name is common to all of them (c1f1j0ev7l). You cannot delete these files immediately because it is still running on your computer so proceed to step 2. 2. Run msconfig, click on the startup tab and untick the startup for the “virus”.exe file (in my case lphc1f1j0ev7l.exe) 3. Restart your computer. 4. This is the time you will continue with step 1. Go to system 32, arrange files by date modified and delete the files with the common name (mine is c1f1j0ev7l). 5. Check that the virus files above have not come back. You may also need to reset the wallpaper in Control Panel Display settings. 6. Run regedit and search for items containing the “common” name (c1f1j0ev7l). Here’s an easy step: On the first panel, click My Computer. Click Edit from the menu bar and click Find. Type the common name and the computer will automatically show the files containing the common name. You should find at least two (the screensaver and the startup register). Delete the items found from the registry. 7. Restart your computer again. 8. Go to My Computer, Drive C, Program Files. Arrange icons by Name, then on the folders beginning with “R”, delete the one with the unusual name (on my case, rhcn7cj0ea59). This folder contains the Antivirus XP 2008. 9. Go to Start, All Programs, and right click “Antivirus XP 2008″, this time, it’s safe to delete it. 10. Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, then remove Antivirus XP 2008. 11. Finally, remove all contents of the recycle bin. 12. Restart your computer and you can now get back to work! Hope this helps a lot for freshers in manually removing virus and other malwares. Killed the virus more or less 10 minutes.