Wista Antivirus Removal Process (remove WistaAntivirus)
July 17, 2008 – 11:18 amWe find that Wista Antivirus is a variant of Vista Antivirus which are both known as fake anti-spyware applications. Wista Antivirus may be part of another slight name change scheme that hackers perform in order to trick gullible computer users. Very often creators of rogue anti-spyware programs change the name of their programs to further disguise it.
Wista Antivirus is known to be installed through a Trojan infection which can be downloaded through fake video codecs or security holes present on your computer. Have you ever found a program over the internet and thought it was one thing and then after you installed it found out it is something totally different? That is usually the case with Wista Antivirus. Many computer users think that Wista Antivirus is a Windows Vista security program just because of its name. After you install Wista Antivirus you will quickly find out that it does nothing for your security or removal of spyware. We recommend that you avoid downloading, installing or purchasing Wista Antivirus.
The following process will help you remove Wista Antivirus from your system easily and safely.
Wista Antivirus Manual Removal Process:
1. Click on the Start Menu button, then click on the Control Panel option, and then Double-click on the Add or Remove Programs icon.
2. Locate Wista Antivirus and double-click on it to uninstall Wista Antivirus. Follow the screen step-by-step screen instructions to complete uninstallation of Wista Antivirus. Do not worry about this if you cannot find it in Add/Remove window. Simply skip to #5.
3. Restart the computer.
4. When it has completed uninstalling you can close Add or Remove Programs and your Control Panel.
5. Close all programs.
6. Search and delete the following infected entries in registry. If you do not know how to edit registry, click here to read more.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\wistaantivirus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Wista Antivirus_is1
7. Stop Wista Antivirus process. If you do not know how to stop a running process, click here to read more.
8. Find and delete the following infected files from your system. Don’t worry if you don’t find these files. Just proceed to next step.
Wista Antivirus.exe
Antvrs.exe
wav.exe
Wista Antivirus.lnk
Uninstall Antivirus.lnk
If you do not know how to find it or having difficulties locating the file, click here to read more.
9. Rename the files that you found above to “foundbadfile1.dll” and “foundbadfile2.dll” (if you can not rename this file, then try to restart your computer in safe mode then try to rename this file.) If you don’t know how to start the computer in safe mode, click here to read more.
10. Go to C:\Program Files\ folder and delete the “Wista Antivirus” folder (if you can’t delete it, reboot your computer to safe mode then delete the folder. Do not worry about it if you can’t find this folder.)
11. Click here to bookmark this page (you will need to comeback to this page after reboot)
(If you are using Firefox click on Ctrl+D on your keyboard to bookmark this page)
12. Restart your computer
13. Go to your computer and delete the “foundbadfile1.dll” and “foundbadfile2.dll” file
14. You have just removed Wista Antivirus from your computer manually.
Remove Wista Antivirus with SmitfraudFix:
SmitfraudFix is a free tool that S!Ri created to remove fake anti-spyware programs. It can be risky so we cannot guarantee the result. Please use it with reservations. We would never recommend to purchase anything unless it’s necessary. That’s why we produce this free removal process.
1. Download SmitfraudFix tool and save it to your desktop.
2. Restart your computer and boot into Safe Mode. If you don’t know how to start the computer in safe mode, click here to read more.
3. Double-click on the SmitfraudFix.exe icon then follow the screen instructions. Option #2 should be selected in this case.
4. When you are prompted with “Do you want to clean the registry ?”, simply answer “Y”.
5. Reboot.
6. You should have removed Wista Antivirus from your computer. Sometimes it might take more than once to work properly. If SmitfraudFix removal tool does not work, which is in no-guarantee due to the nature of spyware, please refer to the manual removal steps above or purchase a legitimate removal tool if necessary.
(Disclaimers: These instructions are free and not guaranteed to work. Please use it at your own risks. We are not responsible for any damages.)
