Personal Antivirus Removal Process (remove PersonalAntivirus)

Protect Yourself from Personal Antivirus

- Remove rogue anti-spyware/anti-virus programs
- Prevent trojans, hijackers & other malware infections
- Use spyware helpdesk to resolve pesky malware

Start Your Scan Now to Detect Personal Antivirus

Personal Antivirus

Personal Antivirus is a fake anti-spyware application. Personal Antivirus is known as another fictitious application that pretends to be able to detect and remove a wide array of computer parasites. Personal Antivirus, just like its clone Internet Antivirus Pro, is only made for extorting money from computer users instead of detecting and removing spyware.

If you have Personal Antivirus installed on your computer then you may be getting very irritated from the many popups and bogus system scans that it shows on your screen. Personal Antivirus may have been installed through a Trojan infection without you knowing about it. Personal Antivirus may also come from the website www.personal-antivirus.com which should never be visited. If you do have Personal Antivirus on your computer then you must not purchase it for any reason. Remove it now and keep your sanity and money in your wallet.

Are you getting popups from Personal Antivirus? Have you identified that you have Personal Antivirus installed on your computer? Do you wish to remove Personal Antivirus completely from your computer?

Why should you remove Personal Antivirus?

If Personal Antivirus resides on your computer, it can potentially damage your personal files or you may end up losing data stored on your system. Research has shown that Personal Antivirus may have the ability to make your computer vulnerable to remote attacks which could result, initially, in loss of money, possibly identity theft, and, eventually, a painstaking Personal Antivirus removal process.

How can you manually remove Personal Antivirus

Manual removal of Personal Antivirus may not be for everyone. Each manual Personal Antivirus removal step must be followed delicately to completely remove all related files and registry entries from your computer. If you are unsure or have doubts about editing your system registry, then we recommend that you use the automatic Personal Antivirus removal process.

Personal Antivirus can be removed manually by following the steps below.

1. With all programs closed, click the Start Menu and go to the Control Panel.
2. Locate the Add/Remove Programs icon and double click it.
3. Locate Personal Antivirus in the list of programs. If you find it, select it and remove it. If you cannot find Personal Antivirus, you can continue to step 5.
4. Restart your computer.
5. Close all open programs and windows on your desktop.
6. Open your registry editor (regedit) program by going to Start Menu, type in regedit, and click OK.
7. Find all of the following registry entries and delete them. If you do not know how to do this, then you can read how to edit the registry in Windows.
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer "PrS"

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Personal Antivirus"

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Personal Antivirus_is1

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_ITGRDENGINE

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ITGrdEngine

8. You may need to return to this removal process for removing Personal Antivirus. You can do this easily by bookmarking or adding a favorite to this page by clicking here. If you are using the FireFox web browser you can press the keys Ctrl and D simultaneously to bookmark this page.

   Image 1. Bookmark PCHubs removal process

   

9. Delete all of the following files that are associated with Personal Antivirus from your computer.

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Personal Antivirus.lnk

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows\winlogon.exe

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\config.cfg

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\Timeout.inf

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\db\Urls.inf

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\settings.ini

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\uill.ini

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\unins000.exe

   %UserProfile%\Application Data\Personal Antivirus\Uninstall Personal Antivirus.lnk

   %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

   c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Personal Antivirus.lnk

   c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus

   c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus\Personal Antivirus Home Page.lnk

   c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus\Personal Antivirus.lnk

   c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Antivirus\Purchase License.lnk

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\activate.ico

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\DBInfo.ver

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\ia080614.db

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\db\ia080618x.db

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Explorer.ico

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAEs.lng

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAFr.lng

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAGer.lng

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\Languages\IAIt.lng

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\PerAvir.exe

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\unins000.dat

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\uninstall.ico

   c:\Program Files\Personal Antivirus\working.log

   c:\WINDOWS\system32\log.txt

   pav.exe

   PersonalAntivirus[1].exe

   PersonalAV

   PersonalAV.exe

   Security Software.exe

   wincontrol.dll

   If you need a better understanding on how to search for these files then you can read how to find and search for files and folders here.

   If you have issues deleting any of the previously listed files that are associated with Personal Antivirus, you can try rebooting your computer into safe mode. Booting into safe mode may allow certain malicious files to be deleted. If you are wondering how to boot into safe mode, you can read our process for starting a computer in safe mode here.

   Image 2. Select "Safe Mode with Networking"

   

10. After locating and deleting the previous files you must remove all directories associated with Personal Antivirus by going to the C:\ProgramFiles\Personal Antivirus folder, select it, and delete it. In some cases you may not be able to find this directory. You can still continue to the next step.

11. Restart your computer. You do not need to boot into safe mode at this point. You should have removed Personal Antivirus completely from your computer. If you find that Personal Antivirus is still on your computer, you can repeat the steps again or go to the automatic Personal Antivirus removal process.