subject: AWM Antivirus Removal - How to Remove AWM Antivirus From Your PC [print this page] AWM Antivirus is the most common virus when we are using a computer. Your anti-virus program may detect this virus but can not remove it; you can just delete the infected files. Besides that, AWM Antivirus will infect the EXE applications on your computer. If so, you had better backup the important documents and information first and then delete the infected files. For convenience, you can also turn on the Active Defense function of your security program, especially the Registry protection and Application integrity protection. It will be better for keeping your computer in safe.
How AWM Antivirus affects your PC
Virus characteristic of AWM Antivirus will change accordinglywhen it infects any file. So it is tough for anti-virus programs to kill it through detecting condition code. So far, there is no any program that can completely fix the EXE files which have been infected by AWM Antivirus, but put it in Quarantine folder. However, your system will be in trouble by the infection of AWM Antivirus and you have to restore system after the backup for some important files. For prevention of this virus and the safety of your computer, you had better equip your computer with forcible security program. Once get infected, you should run the security program to detect it and remove it timely. Sometimes, your system EXE file may have been destroyed badly; you can backup first and then restore system. If you have not backup in advance, Overwrite Installation is great since it can minimize the lost. Or you can stop using your computer for a few days and then detect this virus after updating your security program again.
How to fix AWM Antivirus effectively
Once AWM Antivirus has got into your computer, it will connect to Remote Server and execute some backdoor operation. And it also infect linkinfo apphelps.dll which are under Windows catalog by typing the characteristic bytes into these files and a drive file named riodrvs.sys will be produced at the same time. At this very moment, some Power Tools on your computer, such as icesword,sms can not operate as usual. Here I would like to recommend you an easy and forcible tool Spyware Cease, which you can use to detect *.sys so as to remove AWM Antivirus. Run the Full scan; remove the detected files and finally restore your system. Then the problem can be fixed!
What is AWM Antivirus?
AWM Antivirus is a rogue anti-spyware application. At first glance, AWM Antivirus looks like a normal anti-spyware remover. Nevertheless, this application was designed to trick the user into purchasing a full version of Renus2008. In order to succeed, the rogue uses well known scaring and money stealing tactis. Also, AWM Antivirus is probably a clone of other rogue applications.
Once PC is infected, AWM Antivirus performs fake system scan and reports various bogus results and fallacious alert messages stating that computer has serious security problems. In order to remove these imaginary threats and protect the system from future attacks, user is advertised to purchase a full version of Renus2008. However, it's a scam. A full version of Renus2008 doesn't even exist. Instead of buying this worthless application, remove it from the system immediately after firts appearance.
A highly recommended tool to remove AWM Antivirus is RegistryQuick which is available for free at http://www.fixpctrouble.info Before you try other programs, give RegistryQuick a try! You will be surprised!
