Doctor Antivirus

Posted: July 8, 2013

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Ranking:	9,612
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	372

First Seen:	July 8, 2013
Last Seen:	October 13, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Doctor Antivirus is a rogue anti-virus program that currently is believed to be based on the FakeSecSen family – a family of scamware which also includes System Antivirus 2008, Spyware Preventer and MS Antivirus 2008, as well as being loosely related to the fake anti-spyware program SpySheriff. Although SpywareRemove.com malware researchers haven't confirmed any cases of Doctor Antivirus blocking other applications (a common symptom of most other families of fake anti-virus products), Doctor Antivirus still is dangerous to your PC and will attempt to mislead you with inaccurate alerts regarding the state of malware attacks against your other applications. While Doctor Antivirus will try to encourage you to purchase its software, deleting Doctor Antivirus is the heavily recommended course of action, and should be done with a real anti-malware program whenever such is available for your use.

Doctor Antivirus: the Quack that Gives You Sugar Pills for Imaginary Illnesses

Doctor Antivirus and other members of the FakeSecSen family of rogue AV software attempt to portray themselves as useful brands of anti-virus security products, but don't have any ability to detect actual infections or, once PC threats are found, remove them from your computer. While related to similar scamware like Antivirus Sentry, Ultimate Antivirus 2008 and Micro AV, Doctor Antivirus uses its own interface that differs in appearance slightly from other brands of FakeSecSen. However, the major symptoms between members of the family all are the same, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have confirmed the following characteristics as standard for any Doctor Antivirus infection:

Shortly after its installation, Doctor Antivirus will pretend to scan your PC and detect various fake infections. Trying to use Doctor Antivirus to remove these PC threats will cause Doctor Antivirus to redirect you to a purchase form for its software.
If you make the wise choice of refusing to buy Doctor Antivirus, Doctor Antivirus will persistently display fake pop-up warnings afterward. These alerts can include Windows taskbar notifications, warnings about live attacks and additional detections of fake malware infections.

Because all of Doctor Antivirus's alerts are inaccurate and Doctor Antivirus, itself, doesn't have any anti-virus features, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers never recommend purchasing Doctor Antivirus or any other member of the FakeSecSen family.

Sending Doctor Antivirus Out to Get a Check Up of Its Own

Because Doctor Antivirus is a rogue anti-virus product that doesn't need to be purchased and doesn't provide any advantages for your PC's security, SpywareRemove.com malware experts encourage removing Doctor Antivirus right away whenever possible. Doctor Antivirus and similar scamware programs usually are installed by specialized Trojans with downloading functions, and you should be ready to use a legitimate anti-malware program to make sure that Doctor Antivirus is removed along with any PC threats associated with its presence.

Doctor Antivirus is a Windows-specific PC threat and has not been found to cause any severe hardware or software damage to compromised PCs. However, Registry changes related to Doctor Antivirus may need to be removed by appropriate utilities (since Doctor Antivirus, unlike a legitimate program, will not uninstall all of its components upon your asking Doctor Antivirus to do so).

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:

%UserProfile%\Desktop\antvr.exe

File name: %UserProfile%\Desktop\antvr.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Doctor Antivirus 2008"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Doctor2008

Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:

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