How do you delete antivirus 360?

Answer 1

There are two different programs that might be referred to as the Antivirus 360. There is the Norton Antivirus and there is a rogue anti-spyware program Antivirus 360? Antivirus 360 is not a good program!

See the related link to Spyware-techie.com for information about the spyware Antivirus 360 and removal information. You should read that and remove the rogue program right away!

Here is more information about how to remove the spyware Antivirus 360:

You need to run these 4 essential steps to remove all the spyware on your computer.

1. Run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware

2. Run the anti spyware removal programs Spybot

3 Run Superantispyware

4. Run a complete scan with free curing utility Dr.Web CureIt!

Use Mozilla Firefox or the Google chrome browser for browsing unsafe websites

Install ThreatFire

ThreatFire, features innovative real-time behavioral protection technology that provides powerful standalone protection or the perfect complement to traditional signature-based antivirus programs offers unsurpassed protection against both known and unknown zero-day viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, buffer overflows, spyware, adware and other malware.

Install a good antivirus in your computer.

Keep your antivirus updated. If automatic updates are available, configure your antivirus to use them.

Keep your permanent antivirus protection enabled at all times.

If the problem is with Norton Antivirus software:

Unistall it and install McAfee instead.

Disable Auto Protect Simple.............

(The above recommendation is one opinion, there are other antiviral applications that many people also believe are the "best" ones to use, get additional opinions to help you select the one that will work best for your needs.)

Answer

Antivirus 360 is a brand new fake spyware remover, program with evil intent. Parasite, as many of its kind, tries to push user into purchasing of a licensed version with falsified threats. The name Antivirus 360 sounds very similar to respected security tool Norton 360 by Symantec. Application makes its own way into user's computer via Trojan Zlob or by manual download. After installation, parasite, flood user with numerous pop-ups with imaginary virus infections and system risks. After these notifications Antivirus360 advertises as an effective program that is able to fix all these problems, and of course it is paid one. Program is very dangerous, it mark windows files as an infections or serious threats. The main purpose of it is to show pop-ups and suck money. About fixing of infections you can forget it wasn't created for that. As a parasite, Antivirus360 can do many serious problems for users, slowdown computer, limit connection of internet, increase loses of personal data and even brake your machine. We recommend you scan your system with reputable spyware remover programs to avoid problems.

Step 1 : Use Windows File Search Tool to Find Antivirus 360 Path

1. Go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders.
2. In the "All or part of the the file name" section, type in "Antivirus 360" file name(s).
3. To get better results, select "Look in: Local Hard Drives" or "Look in: My Computer" and then click "Search" button.
4. When Windows finishes your search, hover over the "In Folder" of "Antivirus 360", highlight the file and copy/paste the path into the address bar. Save the file's path on your clipboard because you'll need the file path to delete Antivirus 360 in the following manual removal steps.
5. "Antivirus 360" files can be found in the directory path(s):

%ProgramFiles%\A360

%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Antivirus 360

Step 2 : Use Windows Task Manager to Remove Antivirus 360 Processes

1. To open the Windows Task Manager, use the combination of CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
2. Click on the "Image Name" button to search for "Antivirus 360" process by name.
3. Select the "Antivirus 360" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.
4. Remove the "Antivirus 360" processes files:

%PROGRAMFILES%\360\antivirus.exe

%PROGRAMFILES%\A360\av360.exe

av360.exe

%USERPROFILE%\desktop\av_360.exe

av_360.exe

av_360[1].exe

Step 3 : Use Registry Editor to Remove Antivirus 360 Registry Values

1. To open the Registry Editor, go to Start > Run > type regedit and then press the "OK" button.
2. Locate and delete the entry or entries whose data value (in the rightmost column) is the spyware file(s) detected earlier.
3. To delete "Antivirus 360" value, right-click on it and select the "Delete" option.
4. Locate and delete "Antivirus 360" registry entries

Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs\A360

Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs\Antivirus 360

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "13376694984709702142491016734454

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\13376694984709702142491016734454

Step 4 : Detect and Delete Other Antivirus 360 Files

1. To open the Windows Command Prompt, go to Start > Run > type cmd and then press the "OK" button.
2. Type in "dir /A name_of_the_folder" (for example, C:\Spyware-folder), which will display the folder's content even the hidden files.
3. To change directory, type in "CD name_of_the_folder".
4. Once you have the file you're looking for type in "del name_of_the_file".
5. To delete a file in folder, type in "del name_of_the_file".
6. To delete the entire folder, type in "rmdir /S name_of_the_folder".
7. Select the "Antivirus 360" process and click on the "End Process" button to kill it.
8. Remove the "Antivirus 360" processes files:

Uninstall A360.lnk

av360.exe

av_360.exe

%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Antivirus 360\Help.lnk

%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Antivirus 360\Registration.lnk