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Advanced Antivirus

Posted: June 21, 2008

Threat Metric

Ranking: 16,636
Threat Level: 10/10
Infected PCs: 262
First Seen: July 24, 2009
Last Seen: September 9, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

ScreenshotAdvanced Antivirus, also known as AdvancedAntivirus, is a rogue anti-virus program that displays a fake icon on your system tray stating that your computer is infected with spyware. Advanced Antivirus will use fake security messages to urge you to download their software and will prompt you into purchasing the full version of Advanced Antivirus. Advanced Antivirus is part of the same family of rogue anti-spyware programs as Windows Antivirus 2008, Vista Antivirus 2008 and Ultimate Antivirus 2008.

Advanced Antivirus may try to download itself by using drive-by download methods. Advanced Antivirus will also launch on every Windows startup and may display excessive popup ads. Advanced Antivirus may be difficult to remove manually because it has the ability to recreate itself.

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Aliases

Cloaked Malware [Prevx1]not-a-virus:FraudTool.Win32.AdvancedAntivirus.i [Kaspersky]SHeur.CRIL [AVG]TR/FakeAV.BU.9 [AntiVir]TROJ_FAKEAV.BMN [TrendMicro]Trojan Horse [Symantec]Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT [Sunbelt]Adware/UltimateDefender [Panda]Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Packed.B [McAfee-GW-Edition]FakeAlert-CK.dll [McAfee]not-a-virus:FraudTool.Win32.AdvancedAntivirus.ic [Kaspersky]Trojan.Win32.Fakeinit [Ikarus]W32/FakeAlert.CK!tr [Fortinet]FraudTool.Win32.AdvancedAntivirus.ic [F-Secure]Trojan.Fakealert.4524 [DrWeb]
More aliases (95)

Technical Details

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:



aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 407.04 KB (407040 bytes)
MD5: 40ef838a59cff4b36193853a31bf3290
Detection count: 94
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 420.35 KB (420352 bytes)
MD5: 54224dccd3c217d5e5b9619bfdc5d8ca
Detection count: 93
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
winhelper.dll File name: winhelper.dll
Size: 20.99 KB (20992 bytes)
MD5: 13a14a0e6f7d3e4c7d643024374435a9
Detection count: 85
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 333.82 KB (333824 bytes)
MD5: ba7ff7ab4720cebc176b9666b52a6fee
Detection count: 71
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 425.98 KB (425984 bytes)
MD5: c11310aadabc658e52db2f9dece55ee0
Detection count: 62
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 410.11 KB (410112 bytes)
MD5: 2660b7844bbdfe0fa51b31ed86bb0d86
Detection count: 61
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 411.13 KB (411136 bytes)
MD5: 626600d414841fa379b3c3ccef5d9a11
Detection count: 55
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 30, 2022
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 333.82 KB (333824 bytes)
MD5: 00cbcdff13e5c710341393a19d260da6
Detection count: 44
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 333.82 KB (333824 bytes)
MD5: d0dd6935d04572ee74164ac7c2fd2589
Detection count: 22
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
AAV.ExE File name: AAV.ExE
Size: 425.98 KB (425984 bytes)
MD5: 81871b05df637a840fb67d481f95dd1a
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/ExE
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 333.82 KB (333824 bytes)
MD5: d3e98a9db44e599ab3a7674aaeffd7f1
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 333.82 KB (333824 bytes)
MD5: 6926bd8a5134262b308d7470bc5f5667
Detection count: 13
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
winhelper.dll File name: winhelper.dll
Size: 20.99 KB (20992 bytes)
MD5: d700d7e062e28230cbe282aad5be7d0c
Detection count: 13
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: September 30, 2020
winhelper.dll File name: winhelper.dll
Size: 20.99 KB (20992 bytes)
MD5: 71315d12f866d7703c89026cf1a0d4ef
Detection count: 10
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009
aav.exe File name: aav.exe
Size: 418.81 KB (418816 bytes)
MD5: 815c318d73fe0feda6cc5dfd0031aa4e
Detection count: 1
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathaav.exe

Additional Information

The following cookies were detected:
aav2008advancedavpro

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6 Comments

  • SS says:

    i have this problem . i will try to get rid of it with your instructions. thank you , it is driving me nuuuuuuuuuuts. lol

  • Alan says:

    You can also use system restore in Windows XP. It seemed to obliterate his stinking disease pretty darn quick!

  • John says:

    ok well im of the ones who fell for it because i was actually trying to download something and my norton had expired so i thought that it was just something that my computer automatically deployed to help. well im going to uninstall but i want to know if there is a way to get my money back? please reply thanks

  • Lisa says:

    I was another Idiot that paid for it because my virus protection was out of date... I was wondering if there was a way to get money back? a number anything that I can do?

  • Henry says:

    I also got this unwanted "antivirus" and it completely destroyed my system.
    If the Mo-F*ckers demand money for this, there must be a bank account to trace them? I have had it with all this virus shyte, I will break their legs when I find them

  • Michael says:

    What if the virus will not let you into Task Manager?

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