How To Remove Alpha Antivirus

Alpha Antivirus Overview:

Alpha Antivirus is another one of those “Fake Security Software” applications that uses fradulent or fake security alerts to trick you into thinking that your computer is infected. This is another product from the same online anti-virus scams like the “Personal Antivirus For Free” product found earlier this year. It get’s installed by social engineering tactics that trick you into thinking that you have a virus or trojan. Once you’re fooled and you install the software, it will list a variety of infections on your computer (that are not real) and the software will prompt you to pay for their full version to remove the infections. This is all a scam to trick you into paying for software that you don’t need. Also, if you pay for the software, you’re actually giving your credit card number to internet thiefs  as well. Alpha Antivirus will also block your real antivirus program from functioning correctly along with blocking access to the “Real” antivirus software companies on the web. This is how they trap you into paying for their software.

Follow the instructions below to remove Alpha Antivirus and clean up your system from this virus infection.

How to Remove Alpha Antivirus:

Alpha Antivirus Screenshot

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Fake Scare Tactic from Alpha Antivirus Software

How to manually remove Alpha Antivirus Software (Not Recommended):

1. You must kill the processes that are running. The processes are called Alpha.exe and NetFilter.exe. You access your processes by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc. Then highlight them and click on End Process
2. Then delete the following files from your computer:


C:\Program Files\Alpha Antivirus
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\Alpha Antivirus.exe
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\activate.ico
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\Explorer.ico
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\AlphaAV.exe
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\unins000.dat
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\uninstall.ico
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\working.log
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\db
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\db\DBInfo.ver
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\db\ia080614.db
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\db\ia080618x.db
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\Languages
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\Languages\IAEs.lng
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\Languages\IAFr.lng
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\Languages\IAGer.lng
C:\Program Files\AlphaAV\Languages\IAIt.lng
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Uninstall\AlphaAV
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Uninstall.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Alpha Antivirus
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Alpha Antivirus Home Page.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Alpha Antivirus.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\AlphaAV\Purchase License.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Alpha Antivirus
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\settings.ini
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\uill.ini
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\unins000.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\Uninstall Alpha Antivirus.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\db
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\db\config.cfg
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\db\Timeout.inf
%UserProfile%\Application Data\AlphaAV\db\Urls.inf
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Alpha Antivirus.lnk
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\log.txt
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\pguard.ini
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\services.exe
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iGSh.png
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iMSh.png
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iPSh.png
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\iv.exe
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\log.txt
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\pguard.ini
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\services.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\alphaav
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Alpha Antivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ITGrdEngine
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer “PrS”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Alpha Antivirus”

3. Reboot Your Computer.

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