Anti-virus Professional

Anti-virus Professional Description

ScreenshotAntivirus Professional is a rogue anti-virus application designed to scam computer users. Antivirus Professional first started appearing in 2009 and has been regularly updated since Antivirus Professional's release. It is important to understand the true nature of Antivirus Professional. This rogue security program that belongs to the FakeXPA family, is not a real anti-virus program; Antivirus Professional is a malware application disguised as a security program. By deliberately causing a number of problems in an infected computer, Antivirus Professional demands payment to return the computer back to normal. However, our ESG research team recommend against paying for this useless program. Instead, remove Antivirus Professional with a legitimate anti-malware program.

How Antivirus Professional Invades Your Computer System

Rogue security programs like Antivirus Professional typically infect computers through Flash or JavaScript exploits in fake online anti-malware scans. Because of this, our ESG malware researchers strongly recommend that you only use legitimate anti-malware programs to scan your computer. There are several clones for Antivirus Professional, which include Eco Antivirus, MaCatte Antivirus 2009, Personal Security Pro, Antivir, Nortel Antivirus, XP Antivirus 2013, Antivirus 360, XP Antivirus 2012, Earth Antivirus, Antivirus GT, Antivirus 2009, AVG Antivirus 2011, Antivirus 8, AntivirusBEST, Antivirus 7, Ghost Antivirus, Personal Security, E-Set Antivirus 2011, Alpha Antivirus, Antivirus 2010, Cyber Security. Any of these may be delivered into your computer through a Trojan or downloaded directly from Antivirus Professional's homepage.

How the People Behind Antivirus Professional Make Their Money

There are two ways in which criminals use Antivirus Professional to make money. The makers of Antivirus Professional make money directly from their victims. They do this by convincing computer users to pay for useless rogue anti-virus program. The makers of Antivirus Professional deliberately cause the victim's computer to behave erratically and display constant security alerts to convince them that there is a severe problem with the operating system. Antivirus Professional is then offered as a way to solve the very problems Antivirus Professional caused in the first place. Distributing Antivirus Professional is also a lucrative, but illicit business for the hackers involved. They get paid to direct as many users as possible to Antivirus Professional's websites, much like legitimate affiliate marketing functions. To direct computer users to the Antivirus Professional website, hackers use Trojans embedded in malware-laced websites or disguised as video codecs, system updates, or popular files on file-sharing networks

Removing Antivirus Professional from Your Computer

Our ESG security researchers recommend removing Antivirus Professional with a legitimate anti-malware program. Antivirus Professional may have the ability to block your security applications from launching. In those cases, ESG malware researchers recommend starting up in Safe Mode. Doing this, by pressing F8 during start-up, prevents Antivirus Professional from launching, giving you full access to your security software.

Aliases: Fraudtool.Win32.FakeAV!IK [a-squared], TROJ_FAKEAV.ZCG [TrendMicro], Medium Risk Malware [Prevx], Trj/CI.A [Panda], FakeAlert.ALXZ [Norman], Win32/NoAdware [NOD32], Trojan.Dropper.FraudPack.vml [McAfee-GW-Edition], potentially unwanted program AntiVirusPro [McAfee], Trojan.Win32.FraudPack.vml [Kaspersky], Trojan.Win32.Malware.3 [K7AntiVirus], Fraudtool.Win32.FakeAV [Ikarus], W32/FakeAV [Fortinet], Win32.FakeAlert.Anti [eSafe], Trojan.Fakealert.4386 [DrWeb] and Trojan.Generic.2445951 [BitDefender].

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Security Doesn't Let You Download SpyHunter or Access the Internet?


Solutions: Your computer may have malware hiding in memory that prevents any program, including SpyHunter, from executing on your computer. Follow to download SpyHunter and gain access to the Internet:
  • Use an alternative browser. Malware may disable your browser. If you're using IE, for example, and having problems downloading SpyHunter, you should open Firefox, Chrome or Safari browser instead.
  • Use a removable media. Download SpyHunter on another clean computer, burn it to a USB flash drive, DVD/CD, or any preferred removable media, then install it on your infected computer and run SpyHunter's malware scanner.
  • Start Windows in Safe Mode. If you can not access your Window's desktop, reboot your computer in "Safe Mode with Networking" and install SpyHunter in Safe Mode.
  • IE Users: Disable proxy server for Internet Explorer to browse the web with Internet Explorer or update your anti-spyware program. Malware modifies your Windows settings to use a proxy server to prevent you from browsing the web with IE.

If you still can't install SpyHunter? View other possible causes of installation issues.

Technical Information

Screenshots & Other Imagery

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File System Details

Anti-virus Professional creates the following file(s):
# File Name Size MD5 Detection Count
1 %AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Anti-Virus Professional 82
2 %ProgramFiles%\Anti-Virus Professional 76
3 Anti-Virus Professional .lnk 66
4 Uninstall Anti-Virus Professional .lnk 64
5 UninstlDll.dll 389,120 3dc9a849e555c85ec64f77ed532659bb 6
6 Anti-Virus Professional.exe 1,699,488 91817dfd2579cae93b6d6890371673d2 5
7 setup[1].exe 2,431,232 f740de8052f0e8e89624414066ce4ed3 4

Registry Details

Anti-virus Professional creates the following registry entry or registry entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}
Anti-Virus Professional 5.0_is1

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The ESG Threat Scorecard is an assessment report that is given to every malware threat that has been collected and analyzed through our Malware Research Center. The ESG Threat Scorecard evaluates and ranks each threat by using several metrics such as trends, incidents and severity over time.

In addition to the effective scoring for each threat, we are able to interpret anonymous geographic data to list the top three countries infected with a particular threat. The data used for the ESG Threat Scorecard is updated daily and displayed based on trends for a 30-day period. The ESG Threat Scorecard is a useful tool for a wide array of computer users from end users seeking a solution to remove a particular threat or security experts pursuing analysis and research data on emerging threats.

Each of the fields listed on the ESG Threat Scorecard, containing a specific value, are as follows:

Ranking: The current ranking of a particular threat among all the other threats found on our malware research database.

Threat Level: The level of threat a particular PC threat could have on an infected computer. The threat level is based on a particular threat's behavior and other risk factors. We rate the threat level as low, medium or high. The different threat levels are discussed in the SpyHunter Risk Assessment Model.

Infected PCs: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter's Spyware Scanner.

% Change: The daily percent change in the frequency of infected PCs of a specific threat. The formula for percent changes results from current trends of a specific threat. An increase in the rankings of a specific threat yields a recalculation of the percentage of its recent gain. When a specific threat's ranking decreases, the percentage rate reflects its recent decline. For a specific threat remaining unchanged, the percent change remains in its current state. The % Change data is calculated and displayed in three different date ranges, in the last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. Next to the percentage change is the trend movement a specific malware threat does, either upward or downward, in the rankings. Each level of movement is color coded: a green up-arrow (∧) indicates a rise, a red down-arrow (∨) indicates a decline, and a brown equal symbol (=) indicates no change or plateaued.

Top 3 Countries Infected: Lists the top three countries a particular threat has targeted the most over the past month. This data allows PC users to track the geographic distribution of a particular threat throughout the world.
Ranking: 2468
Threat Level: 10
Infected PCs: 347
% Change 30 Days:
0%
7 Days:
3%
1 Day:
-35%

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