RST Antivirus 2010 is a rogue antivirus application that pretends to be a legitimate antivirus program in order to trick users in to paying for a software license. RST Antivirus 2010 gets propagated throughout the internet through Trojans that get downloaded from malicious websites which promote fake virus scanners. Once installed, RST Antivirus 2010 proceeds to load as a startup service and to disable essential Windows services such as Task Manager, Registry Editor and System Restore. By disabling these services, RST Antivirus 2010 ensures that it does not get deleted manually by the user. Therefore, when you try to manually remove RST Antivirus 2010, you should restart your computer in Safe Mode. RST Antivirus 2010 normally performs a large amount of fake virus scans on your computer and reports that the system is infected with a torrent of fake Trojans, viruses and other malicious software. The aim of this is to convince you that you should purchase the ‘full’ version of RST Antivirus 2010 by putting you under the impression that the currently installed ‘trial’ version is incapable of removing the detected ‘threats’ from the system. However, please note that the so-called ‘full’ version of RST Antivirus 2010 is just as incapable of scanning or cleaning any viruses from your computer as the ‘trial’ version is, so under no circumstances should you allow yourself to be tricked in to paying for this fraudulent enterprise.
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As soon as you detect that RST Antivirus 2010 is functioning on your system, you should take steps to initiate RST Antivirus 2010 removal. In order to accomplish this, you need to stop its running processes, unregister its DLL files, delete its files and folders and remove its registry entries.
RST Antivirus 2010 Manual Removal Procedures
The first step you need to take in order to delete RST Antivirus 2010 is to stop the following processes (seek them out from the Task Manager):
- alggui.exe
- svchost.exe
- rst antivirus 2010.exe
Not all of the about process may be running.
The next step in RST Antivirus 2010 removal is to unregister the following DLL files:
- adc32.dll
- comdlg32.dll
- dwmapi.dll
- libclamav.dll
- oledlg.dll
- pthreadvc2.dll
- wininet.dll
Next, it is necessary to delete the following files and folders:
Windows XP:
- %ProgramFiles%\adc32.dll
- %ProgramFiles%\alggui.exe
- %ProgramFiles%\nuar.old
- %ProgramFiles%\skynet.dat
- %ProgramFiles%\svchost.exe
- %ProgramFiles%\wp3.dat
- %ProgramFiles%\wp4.dat
- %ProgramFiles%\rst antivirus 2010\rst antivirus 2010.exe
- %Desktop%\RTS Antivirus 2010.lnk
Windows Vista/7:
- %ProgramFiles%\adc32.dll
- %ProgramFiles%\alggui.exe
- %ProgramFiles%\nuar.old
- %ProgramFiles%\skynet.dat
- %ProgramFiles%\svchost.exe
- %ProgramFiles%\wp3.dat
- %ProgramFiles%\wp4.dat
- %ProgramFiles%\rst antivirus 2010\rst antivirus 2010.exe
- %Programs%\RTS Antivirus 2010.lnk
- %Desktop%\RTS Antivirus 2010.lnk
RST Antivirus 2010 Registry Removal Procedures
For complete removal, the following registry keys and settings should also be deleted:
- HKCU\Software\RTS Antivirus 2010
- HKCR\CLSID\{77DC0Baa-3235-4ba9-8BE8-aa9EB678FA02}
- HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{77DC0Baa-3235-4ba9-8BE8-aa9EB678FA02}
- HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AdbUpd
After this final step has been completed, your computer is completely safe from this threat. Even if this is true in most cases, it is recommended to manifest caution while interacting with the files and folders present on the computer unless a proper computer sweep has been conducted using quality security products.
RST Antivirus 2010 Directories:
- %ProgramFiles%\rst antivirus 2010\
Outside Resources:
http://rogueantispyware.blogspot.com/2010/05/rst-antivirus-2010.html
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