Attentive Antivirus removal guide

By | juli 27, 2013
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Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security Suite is a fake antivirus categorized as rogueware that belongs to the Rogue.WinWebSec family which pretends to be a legitimate security program and claims that malware has been detected on your computer. Attentive Antivirus is classified as a rogueware because it will show fake scan results and security alerts when the malicious Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security scanner is installed on the compromised system. And also Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security does not allow you to run legitimate applications on your computer like malwarescanners and other executables.

Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security is distributed through compromised web sites that exploit vulnerabilities on your computer like Java and through fake online scanners that state you are infected and then prompt you to install Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security to scan your computer for the precense of malware.

When Attentive Antivirus is installed on your computer it will start automatically when you login to Windows. Once Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security is started, it will perform a fake scan of your computer and when the scan is ready it will give many false reports about the precense of malware. When you try to clean these infections, though, Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security you will first need to obtain a license of Attentive Antivirus, don’t purchase this fake program and ignore any alerts of Attentive Antivirus because this is a fake antivirus categorized as rogueware. again do not purchase  this program because you will send your money directly to the cyber criminals.
If your computer is infected with “Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security ”, then you are seeing the following screens and msessages, follow the guide below to remove the “Attentive Antivirus” rogueware from your your computer.

Attentive Antivirus removal guide

Attentive Antivirus – Malware Security removal guide

Warning! Infected file detected
Location: File System
Suspicious activity detected in the application cmd.exe to the behavior of the virus Win32/Conficker.X. For your security and to avoid loss of data, the operation of application cmd.exe has been temporarily restricted.

Warning! Network attack attempt detected.
We strongly recommend activating full edition of Attentive Antivirus for repairing threats.

Warning! Network attack attempt detected.
To keep the computer safe, the threat must be blocked.

Attentive Antivirus removal guide

All tools used in our malware removal guides are completely free to use and should remove any trace of malware from your computer.
Please be aware that removing Malware is not so simple, and we strongly recommend to backup your personal files and folders before you start the malware removal process.

  1. Run Rkill to terminate the malicious processes of Attentive Antivirus
  2. Run a scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to remove Attentive Antivirus
  3. Use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Chameleon to remove Attentive Antivirus
  4. Run a scan with HitmanPro to remove the remnants of Attentive Antivirus
  5. Run a scan with Emsisoft Anti-Malware to double check your system of the presence of Attentive Antivirus

1. Run Rkill to terminate the malicious processes of Attentive Antivirus

Please download Rkill to your desktop.

  • Double-click on the Rkill.com to run the tool.
  • If using Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 right-click on Rkill.com and choose Run As Administrator.
  • A black DOS box will briefly flash and then disappear. This is normal and indicates the tool ran successfully.
  • If not, delete the file, then download and use one of the Rkill versions below.
  • When you see the following message Rkill has terminated successfully the malsicious processes.
  • You should now be able to run your normal security programs so that you can scan for computer infections.
  • Do not reboot the computer after using Rkill

2. Run a scan with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to remove Attentive Antivirus

Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.

  • Double-click mbam-setup.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
  • At the end, be sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware
  • Then click Finish.
  • If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
  • Once the program has loaded, select Perform quick scan, then click Scan.
  • When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.
  • Be sure that everything is Checked (ticked) except items in the C:\System Volume Information folder and click on Remove Selected.
  • If you accidently close it, the log file is saved here and will be named like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware\Logs\mbam-log-date (time).txt
  • Note: If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove, you will be presented with 1 of 2 prompts.
  • Click OK to either and let MBAM proceed with the disinfection process.
  • If asked to restart the computer, please do so immediately. Failure to reboot will prevent MBAM from removing all the malware.
  • After the restart in Normal mode, start Malwarebytes Anti-Malware again and perform a Full System scan to verify that there are no remaining threats.

3. Use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Chameleon to remove Attentive Antivirus

Download Malwarebytes Chameleon from the below link and unzip it to a folder on your desktop.

  • Open the Malwarebytes Chameleon folder and double-click on svchost.exe.
  • If Malwarebytes Chameleon will not start, double-click on the other renamed files until you find one that wil start the Windows commandprompt.
  • Follow the onscreen instructions to press a key to continue and Chameleon will proceed to download and install Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for you.

  • Once it has done this, it will update Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and you’ll need to click OK when it says that the database was updated successfully.

  • Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now attempt to kill all the malicious processes.
  • Please be patient, this process can take up to 10 minutes to complete.
  • Next, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically open and perform a Quick scan.
  • When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results.

  • Be sure that everything is Checked (ticked) except items in the C:\System Volume Information folder and click on Remove Selected.
  • If you accidently close it, the log file is saved here and will be named like this: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Malwarebytes\Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware\Logs\mbam-log-date (time).txt
  • Note: If MBAM encounters a file that is difficult to remove, you will be presented with 1 of 2 prompts.
  • Click OK to either and let MBAM proceed with the disinfection process.
  • If asked to restart the computer, please do so immediately. Failure to reboot will prevent MBAM from removing all the malware.
  • After the restart in Normal mode, start Malwarebytes Anti-Malware again and perform a Full System scan to verify that there are no remaining threats.

4. Run a scan with HitmanPro to remove the remnants of Attentive Antivirus

Please download HitmanPro to your desktop from one of the following links
HitmanPro (32bit) – Direct download link
HitmanPro (64bit) – Direct download link

  • Double click on HitmanPro to start the program, if you are experiencing problems while trying to start HitmanPro, you can use the Force Breach mode.
  • To start HitmanPro in Force Breach mode, hold down the left CTRL-key when you double click on HitmanPro and all non-essential processes will be terminated, including the malware processes.
  • HitmanPro will start and you’ll need to follow the prompts (by clicking on the Next button) to start a system scan with this program.
  • The program will start to scan the computer. The scan will typically take no more than 2-3 minutes.
  • Click on the next button and choose the option activate free license
  • Click on the next button and the infections where will be deleted.

  • Click now on the Save Log option and save this log to your desktop.
  • Click on the next button and restart the computer.

5. Run a scan with Emsisoft Anti-Malware to double check your system of the presence of Attentive Antivirus

Download the Emsisoft Anti-Malware setup program to your desktop.

  • Once the installation package has been downloaded, double-click on the EmsisoftAntiMalwareSetup.exe icon to install Emsisoft Anti-Malware.
  • If the setup program displays an alert about safe mode if you try to install Emsisoft Anti-Malware in safe mode, please click on the Yes button to continue.
  • You should now see a dialog asking what language you would like to use. Please select the language you wish to use and press the OK button.
  • In the next screen accept the License Agreement by checking the option “I accept the agreement” and click on the install button.
  • After the necessary files are copied, you will get to a screen asking the mode that you wish to use Emsisoft Anti-Malware.
  • If you want to use the freeware mode whitout protection choose this option, we recommend to use the 30 days free trial (within this option you can get the full version of Emsisoft Anti-Malware for free, click here for more information about the Emsisoft Referral Rewards Program.

  • You will now be at a screen asking if you wish to join Emsisoft’s Anti-Malware network. Read the descriptions and uncheck the options that you wish to use. When you are ready click on the Next button.
  • Next Emsisoft Anti-Malware will begin to update it’s virus defenitions.
  • When the updates are completed, click on the Clean computer now button. Emsisoft Anti-Malware will start to load its scanning engine and then display a screen asking what type of scan you would like to perform.
  • Please select the Deep Scan option and then click on the Scan button. The Deep Scan option will take the longest time to scan your computer, but will also be the most thorough. As you are here to clean infections, it is worth the wait to make sure your computer is properly scanned.
  • Emsisoft Anti-Malware will now start to scan your computer for rootkits and malware.
  • Please be patient while Emsisoft Anti-Malware scans your computer.

  • When the scan has finished, the program will display the scan results that shows what infections where found.
  • Now click on the Quarantine Selected Objects button, which will remove the infections and place them in the program’s quarantine.
  • If you see a messag like “Not all Malware objects have been quarantined, Do you want to place them in quarantine now?” click on “Yes
  • You will now be at the last screen of the Emsisoft Anti-Malware setup program, click on the button Close setup wizzard.
  • If Emsisoft prompts you to reboot your computer to finish the clean up process, please allow it to do so.
  • Please reboot directly your computer when Emsisoft Ant-Malware is finished to complete the installation process.

6. Information

Some of the programs that we used in our malware removal guides would be a good idea to keep and used often in helping to keep the computer clean. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is one of the most powerful anti-malware tools. It is totally free but for real-time protection you will have to pay a small one-time fee. The license of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is life-time so you have to buy it once, and because Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a great addition to your regular virusscanner of security programs.

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