Remove Av-check-online-scan.com. Description and removal instructions

Title: Av-check-online-scan.com	Also known as: av-check-online-scan
Type: Browser Hijackers	Severity scale: (92 / 100)

Av-check-online-scan.com is a website that no one would probably visit voluntarily, but it is “promoted” by the same named browser hijacker. The website has fraudulent nature: it pushes visitors into buying useless program by means of scare tactics. Once visitor is brought on av-check-online-scan.com, he receives misleading pop-ups. The messages loaded by av-check-online-scan.com hijacker demands purchasing some software for removing viruses found by the website. Av-check-online-scan.com doesn’t have access to visitors’ computers; it fabricates the pop-ups in order to intimidate people. Falsified pop-ups are used by many malicious websites, but this one puts even more efforts to make people buy malware. Av-check-online-scan.com displays erotic pictures that are supposedly loaded from visitor’s machine. It offers buying WinSpywareProtect or some other program for removing the compromising evidences.

Av-check-online-scan.com regularly redirects web browser to malicious website, but it is also capable of doing more harm. Av-check-online-scan.com is able to install other malwares; it may collect various information from a computer and send gathered data to a remote attacker.

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Related files: antivirus.v.1.exe

Av-check-online-scan.com properties:
• Sends out logs by FTP or email
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Stays resident in background

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Automatic Av-check-online-scan.com removal:

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Av-check-online-scan.com manual removal:

Kill processes:
antivirus.v.1.exe

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Delete files:
antivirus.v.1.exe

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Other programs to remove Av-check-online-scan.com:

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Information added: 23/10/08
Information updated: 27/10/08

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