How to Remove Vista Antivirus 2010 From Your Computer

What is Vista Antivirus 2010?
Vista Antivirus 2010 is classified as Rogue Anti-Spyware. After infecting a user's system, it proceeds to scare its victim into buying the "product" by displaying fake security messages, stating that your computer is infected with spyware and only Vista Antivirus 2010 can help you to remove it after you download the trial version. As soon as the victim downloads Vista Antivirus 2010 trial version, it pretends to scan your computer and shows a grossly exaggerated amount of non-existent errors. Then, Vista Antivirus 2010 offers to buy the full version to fix these false errors. If the user agrees, Vista Antivirus 2010 does not only fix the errors, but it also takes the user's money and may even install additional spyware into the victim's computer.

Some Rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Vista Antivirus 2010, may offer users to buy it after the victim clicks on a banner or a pop-up while surfing the internet. Usually, a Trojan is installed to a victim's computer after clicking on the advertisement. It then proceeds to download or even install Vista Antivirus 2010, which is another way for Rogue Anti-Spyware to spread itself.

How to remove Vista Antivirus 2010?

1 The first thing you need to do to remove this program from your PC is to get a trustworthy anti-spyware / anti-malware and then let it scan your system. Many people make the mistake of just trying to delete the files or settings this software installs onto your system, but the fact is that it has a number of different elements which will just it to come back. You need to use the likes of MalwareBytes (free) or SpywareDoctor (paid) to get the roots of this problem.

2 You should also clean out the 'registry' to make sure that there are no settings or files that this virus has left in there. Not many people know about this part of your system, but the fact is that this infection will leave 100's of infected registry settings on your system, ready for any other viruses to come along. The registry is a large database inside Windows which keeps all the settings and files that your computer requires each day to run - it's like a big library of vital information for your system. To clean out all the damaged parts of this database, you need to be able to use a 'registry cleaner' to scan through it and fix the errors that are inside.

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