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Why you get Antivirus Action - How to Uninstall/Remove Antivirus Action completely!

What is Antivirus Action?

Antivirus Action is fake computer optimization tool. The misleading application is a clone of System Defragmenter. It will make you think you have a lot of system problems on your computer and ask you to purchase the program to prevent and fix them. Antivirus Action is a scam designed to trick you into purchasing its full version. If your PC is already infected you should ignore its fake error messages and nag screens. Read below what you'll want to know though is how to remove Antivirus Action.

How did I get this Virus you may ask? Well basically back-door Trojans allow Antivirus Action to gain access to your PC without your knowledge or permission and it will simply keep on annoying you until you finally remove it.

By now you've witnessed the changes on your PC. Like all the system alerts you keep receiving, when not long ago everything was fine. These pop-up messages that keep appearing and system scans are all designed to scare you. They are created by Antivirus Action itself to make you feel your PC is seriously infected and that only Antivirus Action can remove the found threats. Which is basically a scam to make you purchase the full version of Antivirus Action. Quite a simple idea but it happens to work on a lot of inexperienced PC users.

There's a few ways to go about removing Antivirus Action, Firstly you can use a legitimate spyware removal tool or you can remove it manually by following this step by step guide below:

Stop Antivirus Action Processes:

agnz.exe

Remove Antivirus Action registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareAntivirus Action

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun "Antivirus Action"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstallAntivirus Action

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftware[random characters]

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerPhishingFilter "Enabled" = "0"

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings "ProxyOverride" = ""

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings "ProxyServer" = "http=127.0.0.1:33921"

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionInternet Settings "ProxyEnable" = "1"

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun "[random characters] gnz.exe"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun "[random characters]agnz.exe"

Remove Antivirus Action DLLs:

c:WINDOWSsystem32UpdateExplorer.dll

Delete Antivirus Action files:

%Documents and Settings%All UsersStart MenuProgramsAntivirus Action

%Documents and Settings%All UsersDesktopAntivirus Action.lnk

%Documents and Settings%All UsersApplication DataAntivirus Action

%UserProfile%Local SettingsApplication Data[random characters][random characters]agnz.exe

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