How to Remove Alpha Antivirus [Removal Guide]

This guide will give you easy instructions on how to remove Alpha Antivirus for free.


What is Alpha Antivirus? (Information)

Alpha Antivirus is a fake security software which uses fraudulent strategies by displaying false or exaggerated security issues on your computer rather than any legitimate ones to coerce you into purchasing their software.

Alpha Antivirus is a new malicious specimen from the same family of fake security software as Personal Antivirus


Alpha Antivirus Screenshot:




Files Associated With Alpha Antivirus:

Click Spoiler to view:

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Follow these instructions to continue:

1. Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

2. Navigate to the Processes tab.

3. Locate for a process called Alpha.exe and end it's process by click the End Process button at the bottom left hand corner of Task Manager and click Yes.

4. Continue with the instructions listed below to remove Alpha Antivirus completely.

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1. Please download this removal tool: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.




2. Install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware by double clicking on mbam-setup




3. Follow the prompts. Make sure that Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware are checked. Then click finish.




4. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will automatically update itself after the installation, click the OK button to close that box and you will now be at the main program Window as shown below.

If you are having problems with the updater, you can use this link to manually update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with the latest database. Make sure that Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware is closed before installing the update.


5. Close All opened Windows, Programs, File or Folders.


6. Make sure you are on the Scanner tab. Select Perform quick scan then click the Scan button as shown below.




7. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for infected files as shown below.




8. When the scan is finished a message box will appear, click OK to continue.




9. Click Show Results.




10. You will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections like shown below. Yours may look different depending on the infection you have.


11. Click on Remove selected.




12. When removing the files, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware may require you to restart the computer in order to do a complete removal. If it displays a message stating that it needs to restart, click Yes.




13. After that you can close the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware window, your computer is now cleaned from the malware infection.


To protect and prevent your computer from experiencing future threats like this, you may want to consider purchasing the Pro version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with real-time protection from this link.

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If you are still experiencing problems or difficulties following this guide or require any assistance removing this malware, please post your questions in our Virus, Spyware & Malware Removal forums for free help.

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Last edited by Doctor Inferno on 17th April 2010, 3:16 am; edited 17 times in total (Reason for editing : Information Update)

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I tryed doing that but everytime i click abort scan it says no malishious items were detected.. and everytime i turn on the comp..the alpha thing pops up

HELP ME
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please help

nadia1234 wrote:

I tryed doing that but everytime i click abort scan it says no malishious items were detected.. and everytime i turn on the comp..the alpha thing pops up

HELP ME
what do i do to get rid of this thing
please help

Hello,

Open a new topic here: http://www.geekpolice.net/virus-spyware-malware-removal-f11/

We will help you remove it from there.

Ok, I was doing this on a friends computer... it was all going fine until it revealed 300 odd files, with consent we deleted them/romoved or whatever. It then wanted to reboot the computer, so i did this. Now it wont load to windows again it gets stuck on the ACER bit on the screen. Wont even load XP. HELP

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My labtop has been showing the security tool virus removal programm. I cannot get on the internet. What can I do to get my labtop work normal as before the security tool took it over?

hamnest wrote:

My labtop has been showing the security tool virus removal programm. I cannot get on the internet. What can I do to get my labtop work normal as before the security tool took it over?

Try downloading MBAM on another system, and put it on a flash drive, then transfer it over.