Title: Earth Antivirus

Type: Rogue Antispyware

Remove Earth Antivirus. Removal instructions

Also known as: EarthAntivirus, Earth AV

Severity scale:

(63 / 100)

Earth Antivirus is a rogue anti-spyware program from the same family as Green AV and Eco Antivirus. The rogue program uses false scan results and misleading alerts to scare users into thinking that their computers are infected. Earth Antivirus is typically promoted through the use of Trojans, fake online scanners and other websites that display pop ups stating that your computer is infected and that you should download and run Earth AV in order to clean your computer. It goes without saying, that you shouldn't trust it. And most importantly, don't purchase this bogus program. Instead, you should remove Earth Antivirus from your computer as soon as possible. The removal instructions below will show you how to uninstall this rogue program.

Once installed, EarthAntivirus will scan your computer and then list a variety of infections that cannot be removed until you purchase the program. The scan results are false and are only being shown to scare you into thinking you are infected. As a typical rogue security program, Earth Antivirus will display many fake security alerts and pop-ups from Windows Taskbar. Those alerts will claim that your computer is infected with spyware, adware and other types of malware. Please ignore those fake alerts.

As you can see, Earth Antivirus has only one goal, which is to scare you into purchasing the program. However, it's a virus itself and should be removed from the system upon detection. Also note, that of you have already purchased this bogus program then you should contact your credit card company and dispute the charges. The homepage of this rogue program is earth-av.com.

Related files: ErV_paid.exe, ergui.exe, gsl.dll, Earth AV .lnk, wstech.dll, vec.exe, msll.exe, msdl.exe, base.dat, Earth AV.lnk

Earth Antivirus properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Stays resident in background

Earth Antivirus snapshot:

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Earth Antivirus manual removal:

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Kill processes:
ergui.exe ErV_paid.exe eav.exe msdl.exe vec.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Earth AV
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\ Run "Earth AV"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current\Version\Uninstall "Earth AV"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EAV
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID{29256442-2C14-48CA-B756-3EE0F8BDC774}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppIDWStech.DLL
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{A5DBD8CB-DF8A-4992-A655-B155216F6AFB}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface{051C9A06-FB08-486F-B09B-8B33B261637D}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib{512E801E-2F02-4ADE-ACAA-58F08A22B2F8}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WStech.WStechB
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WStech.WStechB.1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects{A5DBD8CB-DF8A-4992-A655-B155216F6AFB}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002ControlClass{4D36E96E-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}S
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run "mxcll"

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Unregister DLLs:
gsl.dll WStech.dll

HELP:
how to unregister malicious DLLs

Delete files:
Earth AV.lnk Base.dat msdl.exe msll.exe vec.exe WStech.dll Earth AV .lnk gsl.dll ergui.exe ErV_paid.exe

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Earth AV\
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\eav
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Machine
%APPDATA%\mozillafirefoxprofiles

Information added: 2010-07-13 02:01:21
Information updated: 2010-07-19 07:58:28

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