Remove Lodav. Description and removal instructions

Title: Lodav
Type: Trojans	Severity scale: (70 / 100)

Lodav is a dangerous trojan designed to disable security-related software. Once executed, the parasite searches for installed antiviruses, firewalls, various system tools and security-related programs, terminates their processes and kills related active services. It also deletes essential files and critical registry entries required to run security-related applications. Lodav is able to corrupt nearly all popular products including Norton AntiVirus, McAfee AntiVirus, NOD32, ZonLabs ZoneAlarm, Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Outpost Firewall, etc. The trojan may also block access to well-known security-related and commercial web sites. It automatically runs on every Windows startup.

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Lodav properties:
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Lodav removal:

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Lodav manual removal:

Kill processes:
antiav_exe.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\auto__antiav__key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\auto__antiav__key

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Unregister DLLs:
antiav_dll.dll

HELP:
how to unregister malicious DLLs

Delete files:
antiav_exe.exe, antiav_dll.dll

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
Lodav files are located in default system directory, which is one of the following: C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32, C:\Winnt\System32.

Other programs to remove Lodav:

• SUPERAntiSpyware - Review - Download
• CounterSpy - Review - Download
• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 04/11/05
Information updated: 04/11/05

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