Antivirus-xp-2008 is a rogue application which installs into the system by itself, tries to download, create duplicate files and displays fake pop-up constantly. Like “Your system is infected with spyware” and “critical system error”
“Your system is infected with ##### spyware” and “critical system error”
Antivirus-xp-2008 is a very dangerous application that makes your system halted with a blue screen, it should be removed from the system at earliest or else you will be forced to format the system.
Removal instructions for antivirus-xp-2008 manually:
First kill the process running (press Ctrl+Alt+Del --> Task manager --> process)
1. If you find any Process running with rhcXXXXXXXXX.exe and pphXXXXXXXX.exe, click to “End Process”
2. Different systems would have different names so search for files starting with rhc and pph, delete it. For example :
- rhcnkrj0etfg.exe
- pphcjkrj0etfg.exe
- rhcnkrj0etfg.exe.local
- rhc75dj0e1an.exe
Similarly search for below DLL files and delete them:
- pntqkflv.dll
- rhcnkrj0etfg
- MFC71.dll
- MFC71ENU.DLL
- msvcp71.dll
- msvcr71.dll
- rhcnkrj0etfgSkin.dll
- Antivirus XP 2008.lnk
- Antivirus XP 2008
- How to Register Antivirus XP 2008.lnk
- Register Antivirus XP 2008.lnk
3. Click on start button --> run --> Type "regedit" --> goto
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ search for "rhcnkrj0etfg" and remove or modify.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion “rhcnkrj0etfg”
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\rhcnkrj0etfg
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform “AntivirXP08"
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “SMrhcnkrj0etfg"
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