Vista Antivirus is a new rogue antivirus which tries to rob your money. Besides that it slows down your pc and with unwanted popups, it makes your working on the computer impossible.
Though it may be very harmful, it is very easy to clean. Just follow these easy steps accompanied by pictures to clean your pc from this false vista antivirus.
1. First of all open task manager(Ctrl+Alt+Del) and go to process tab. Now search the process vav.exe. Kill process vav.exe by right clicking on it and selecting end process.
2. Now go to C:\windows\system32 folder(assuming that you have windows in your C drive.
Locate and delete file vav.cpl
3. Now go to C:\program files
Locate a folder named vav with four files(vav0.dat, vav1.dat, vav.cpl, vav.exe)
Delete the entire folder
4. Vista Antivirus 2008 also makes a shortcut on your desktop. Del that also
5. Empty recycle bin
Now we will be doing some registry editing which is to be done very carefully. If not done with care it can lead to system instability
6. Go to start->run->type 'regedit' and press enter
7. Now navigate to the following key and del the string named antivirus as shown in the picture.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\W...
8. Now navigate to the following key and del the key as shown in the picture.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VAV
9. Now navigate to the following key and del the string named antivirus as shown in the picture.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\...
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