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By George Norman

Added on 11 Jan 2010(572 Views)

classification: Rogue Anti-Virus Program
Viruses are nasty things and you are well advised to get an antivirus security software application to keep them at bay. Going by the name Total Virus Protection you would be tempted to say something like “hey, I found the perfect antivirus to protect my PC.” Sadly though, you would be wrong. Total Virus Protection is not a genuine, legitimate antivirus; it is a rogue antivirus application and as such it cannot detect, remove and protect against viruses and other malware types.
So what can Total Virus Protection do if it cannot detect, remove and protect against viruses and other malware types? To put it simply, it can annoy the heck out of you – not to mention that it can scam you out of some money. Once installed on your system, the Total Virus Protection rogue will automatically run at startup and will continually run in the background, thus eating system resources and causing your computer to act sluggish (which is annoying). Each time you boot up your computer, Total Virus Protection will appear, will perform a fake system scan, will detect numerous phony infections and then will ask you to purchase a Total Virus Protection license to remove the aforementioned infection and make things all better again (which is annoying and costly, if you pay for a license). To further add to the annoyance, Total Virus Protection will bombard you with popups and fake security alerts, will hijack your browser, and will potentially disable any genuine security software application you have installed on your system.

Automatic removal guide
Step 1. If you have a printer, make sure to print out this tutorial. If you do not have a printer, save this tutorial, go out to a copy center and print it out there. If you do not have a printer and do not want to go out, then use the pen and paper method: grab a pen and a piece of paper and write down the instruction presented in the steps below. In the process of eliminating Total Virus Protection from your machine you will need to shut down the browser. And since this will also shut down the tutorial, you need to know what you should do next.

Step 2. You will have to install Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware. In this regard you need to download the software’s setup executable. Just click this link and save the .exe file on your computer (preferably on your desktop).

Step 3. Double click the Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware setup executable. It should be on the desktop under the name mbam-setup. This will launch the installation process. If you already know how to install a piece of software, proceed to step 4. If you do not know how to do this, we’ll walk you though it all:



- The Select Setup Language window should have popped up. By default, the language in which the software will be installed is set to English, but you can change this. The software provides support for 30+ languages. After selecting the language of your choice, click OK. It would be best to just leave it set to English though.



- The Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Setup Wizard will now popup. Just click Next.



- You will be presented with the License Agreement. Click I accept the agreement and then click Next. If you do not accept the agreement you will not be able to continue.



- Keep clicking Next until you get to the Ready to install window. Now click Install. After the installation process completes click Finish. Do not uncheck the boxes next to Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware or Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.















Step 4. The Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware application will launch automatically. The Perform quick scan option should be checked by default – if it isn’t then check it and then click Scan. You are well advised to close all running apps before clicking scan. This will ensure the scan for Total Virus Protection will complete swiftly.



Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware will start scanning your files for signs of Total Virus Protection. This may take a while, so be patient. It all depends on how powerful your computer is and how many files Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has to scan.



When the scan for Total Virus Protection is complete you will be presented with a notification box. Click OK to close the notification box and go to the main Scanner screen. Click Show Results and you will be presented with a list of all the infected files Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected.





Step 5. Click Remove Selected and Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware will remove all the infected files it has detected. It may be necessary to restart your computer in order to remove some of these files. After Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is done removing all the infected files, it will open Notepad and present the scan log to you. You can review the log at your leisure – save it If you want.



Step 6. Close Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and you’re done. No traces of Total Virus Protection should be left on your computer.

Manual removal guide

Stop and remove the processes:



Access the Windows Registry Editor and delete the following registry keys:



Locate and delete the following files:



Block access to the domain(s):





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