Anti Virus Armor

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 August 2012 08:33 Saturday, 19 May 2012 13:19

Unwanted - App

Here is a program named Anti Virus Armor. It has a website of its own. This article does not talk about the merit/ demerits of the program.  In case you are unable to uninstall it and want to remove it manually, then this information from threatexpert analysis report can be useful.

Files and folders found - view
%CommonPrograms%\Anti Virus Armor\Anti Virus Armor.lnk
%CommonPrograms%\Anti Virus Armor\Uninstall Anti Virus Armor .lnk
%DesktopDir%\Anti Virus Armor.lnk
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor\adgutils.dll
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor\Anti Virus Armor.exe
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor\noadware4_031610.na
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor\unins000.dat
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor\unins000.exe
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor\UninstlDll.dll

Folders
%CommonPrograms%\Anti Virus Armor
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor
C:\Program Files\Anti Virus Armor\logs

(Full path for the short folder names)

There may be more files created by this unwanted program. You can find them out. First locate and note down the "date of creation" of "Anti Virus Armor.exe", or any of the files mentioned above, and after that, search the hard disk for other files created on that date or onward. See image

Necessary steps required to remove this unwanted program

• To remove processes created by the unwanted program from the Task Manager
• To search and delete files created by the unwanted program from the hard disk. Enable to view "hidden files and folders" before you search. Otherwise files created by the unwanted program inside the hidden folders will not be found
• To remove obsolete registry keys using CCleaner