How to remove AV Security Essentials
You can get AV Security Essentials, visiting some malicious sites and clicking some links on them or opening a spam letter or e-mail attachment. And after the next reset you will have AV Security Essentials installed on your computer. This case is very frequent, so the solution of the problem exists. In order to remove AV Security Essentials you should follow our instructions.
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This problem can be solved using two ways of AV Security Essentials removal methods: automatic and manual, but you can also combine them or use only automatic method. If you are an expert in computer usage and can without doubt and mistake remove the definite registry keys, so you can use manual method:
1. Find all the related AV Security Essentials files, use Start menu for that and delete them:
%CommonAppData%\[Random symbols]\[Random symbols].exe
%CommonAppData%\[Random symbols]\ASE.ico
%CommonAppData%\[Random symbols]\[Random symbols].cfg
%StartMenu%\AV Security Essentials.lnk
%Programs%\AV Security Essentials.lnk
%Desktop%\AV Security Essentials.lnk
%AppData%\AV Security Essentials\Instructions.ini
%AppData%\AV Security Essentials\ScanDisk_.exe
%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\AV Security Essentials.lnk
2. Then you should stop the process of AV Security Essentials in Task Manager:
ScanDisk_.exe
3. After that you should perform the most serious action: to remove all the registry keys, related to the viral program:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “AVecurity Essentials” “%CommonAppData%\[RANDOM]\[RANDOM].exe” /s /d
And after that you can use automatic method: download any powerful antivirus program, for example Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, install it, update and run a scan to remove the rest of AV Security Essentials related files and to stop its malicious actions. If nothing will be found, then repeat the scan in Safe Mode. Or you can use any special removal utility, for example from Security Stronghold.
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If you are afraid to use manual method and make some serious changes in the system Registry, then use only automatic one. It will also help you to get rid of AV Security Essentials once and forever.
