Ways to completely remove Vista Antivirus from your computer

It happened my friend, while he was browsing, a pop of Vista Antivirus 2008 telling that the computer is infected with viruses and Vista antivirus 2008 need to be installed to heal them. He was using his Compaq notebook with preinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium. The popup was having an icon which resembled that of Windows Shield. So, he clicked the link to download Vista Antivirus 2008 and installed the same. Once the installation has been completed, he found that his system is getting heavily loaded by vav process and they are asking to purchase the software online for healing the infections. The notebook performance was decreasing day by day. When he realised that some thing is happening to his notebook, he just called me. And he narrated the whole story of Vista AntiVirus and all. That was the first time even I heard about such an Antivirus Software.


I suggested him to uninstall the Vista Antivirus 2008 software, but that did not work. I also suggested him to remove the vista antivirus 2008 entry from startup files, using msconfig command, but in vain. Then I went on googling about the same issue. Later I understood from forums that the Vista Antivirus is a fraud software, what ever the infections claimed by them are fake, just for convincing people to by their product. A new dimension in cheating customers.

From some forums I found a anti malware software to remove this Vista Antivirus 2008. You can download and install the anti-malware . For more details you can refer to an article from bleepingcomputer.com.

Once you remove Vista Antivirus 2008 with MalwareBytes' Anti-Malware, remove its entry from windows startup files and uninstall both softwares. Install the Kaspersky Antivirus, which is one of the best antivirus in the world.

Also read: How to get free legal six months key for Kaspersky antivirus. And best antivirus reviews.