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Contributed by: Aurelija Skurvydaite
Date: September 28, 2009
Is Alpha Antivirus a program that everybody should have on their systems? Of course, its creators will answer that it is one of the most important programs to have if you want to keep your PC secure. However, my answer to the question is completely different. You should definitely prevent this program from entering your system! Alpha Antivirus is one of the most recent rogue anti-virus applications causing its victims great damage.
The appearance of Alpha Antivirus is somewhat similar to that of other popular rogue programs, including Personal Antivirus. There are two ways you could catch it. Firstly, Alpha Antivirus could enter your system via various Trojans and other malware. The other way you could catch it is while visiting unreliable websites that are actually loaded with lots of malware. If downloaded successfully, Alpha Antivirus is able to load at startup of Windows into memory. As a result, it becomes rather difficult to manually remove it from an infected system. The first thing Alpha Antivirus performs after installation is a fake computer scan. Here you can see a screenshot of this scan:
Image 1. Alpha Antivirus scan After the scan Alpha Antivirus starts displaying annoying warnings reporting the presence of viruses that can allegedly damage your confidential data. All you have to do in order to remove these threats from your system is buy the full version of Alpha Antivirus. However, don't get trapped because it won't resolve any security problems on your PC. Let's now move on to more precise information concerning Alpha Antivirus. As is the case with other malware, Alpha Antivirus comes with certain files that need to be deleted in order to remove it from an infected system. Therefore have a look at the following table with files, file sizes and MD5 signatures related to the rogue program:
Table 1. Alpha Antivirus file information Don't become the next victim of this malicious application. Remember that Alpha Antivirus is not capable of detecting and removing neither real nor fake parasites. Moreover, it will slow down your system performance and allow additional malware to sneak into your PC. |
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User Comments
step by step instructions to remove this crap.
There aughta be a law!
How the hell does Norton not catch this shi$!!!!!!? What do I pay them for!!
First! Kill the process in task manager under processes or you cannot remove it at all. Try to do this in SAFE MODE, although some computers I have worked on will not let you into it, but try. You will probably have to manually remove every little part of it and there are tons of sites that do have step by step directions for removal. It is complicated, so have a techy friend help you out if you are not familiar with editing the registry, etc.
The only program that I have found that will kill it is Malwarebytes and it is FREE. You do not need to pay for it, use the free version. Most of the time you cannot get it to install so you will need to manually remove at least some and let the program clear the rest out for you.
Can you send me the removal package so I can send it to him and "fix" it for him. He's afraid to turn his computer on!
Thank you, jonna
alpha antivirus did a scan and ended up with alot of viruses that nedds to be removed(supposedly)
the computer im sending the email from is not the infected computer