Paladin Antivirus
Paladin Antivirus Description
Paladin Antivirus, or PaladinAntivirus, is a rogue antivirus program and product of a blatant cyber scam. Paladin Antivirus enters the computer when a related Trojan infection opens a backdoor to allow Paladin Antivirus entry to the compromised system. Once active, PaladinAntivirus will produce a fake PC scan and results which warn that the computer is infected with malware.
Paladin Antivirus belongs to the FakeCog (CoreGuard) family, which includes members such as Digital Protection, AnVi, Coreguard Antivirus 2009, Data Protection, Defense Center, Dr Guard, Fraud.Defense Center, Malware Protection Center, PC Protection Center, PC Protection Center 2008, Protection Center, Protection System, User Protection and Your Protection.
Aliases
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT [Sunbelt]High Risk Cloaked Malware [Prevx]Heuristic.LooksLike.Trojan.TDss.B [McAfee-GW-Edition]Virus.Win32.Heur [Ikarus]Win32/WindowsAntivirusPro!generi [eTrust-Vet]Win32/Heur [AVG]Virus.Win32.Heur!IK [a-squared]Adware.FakeAV.615424 [ViRobot]TROJ_TDSS.SMAL [TrendMicro]Trojan/Kryptik.cqq [TheHacker]
More aliases (33)
Paladin Antivirus Automatic Detection Tool (Recommended)
Is your PC infected with Paladin Antivirus? To safely & quickly detect Paladin Antivirus, we highly recommend you run the malware scanner listed below.
Download SpyHunter's* Malware Scanner to detect Paladin Antivirus
What happens if Paladin Antivirus does not let you open SpyHunter or blocks the Internet?
Technical Details
Visual & GUI Characteristics
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read
the tutorials on how to find malware,
kill unwanted processes,
remove malicious DLLs and
delete other harmful files. Always be
sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
- The following files were created in the system:
# File Name Detection Count 1 Paladin Antivirus.lnk 379 2 Paladin Antivirus Support.lnk 372 3 Uninstall Paladin Antivirus.lnk 365 4 %UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Paladin Antivirus 176 5 %ProgramFiles%\Paladin Antivirus 169 6 phook.dll 87 7 pav.exe 80 8 pavext.dll 73
Registry Modifications
Tutorial: To edit and delete registry entries manually, read the tutorial on
how to remove malicious registry entries.
Tip & Warning: Editing and removing the wrong registry keys can severely damage your PC, so remember to backup your Windows Registry! To optimize your Windows Registry and speed up your PC, download RegHunter's registry cleaner.
Tip & Warning: Editing and removing the wrong registry keys can severely damage your PC, so remember to backup your Windows Registry! To optimize your Windows Registry and speed up your PC, download RegHunter's registry cleaner.
- The following newly produced Registry Values are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\..{RunKeys}Paladin AntivirusHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Paladin Antivirus
Posted: February 8, 2010 | By SpywareRemove
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I recently used my computer and suddenly realised there was a palatin antivirus page on my profile page. It would not go so i decided to install it and thought i could just uninstall it in order for my profile page to be as it was before. Within minutes I was bombarded with trojan, malware security alerts instructing me to pay for the antivirus program in order to get rid of them. I thought it was very strange as there was no option or file to find that I could uninstall palatin antivirus. I decided to look on the internet for this and came accross this website i am glad to know what it is but i have no idea how to get rid of it. Even with your instructions I am unable to find it or get rid of it. I would also like to know why my current antivirus and spyware allowed this to happen surely my original one should have prevented this ?