Personal Antivirus is one of the many scam “antivirus” tools which are found all over the Internet which claims to help you get rid of viruses but it is actually a virus itself. The Personal Antivirus is a rogue antispyware tool which gets installed on user’s computers when they download warez software from peer-to-peer networks or when they visit malicious websites. Personal Antivirus is categorized as scareware because it generates fake and misleading alert messages claiming that the computer of the user is infected with numerous malware and spyware in order to scare the user and make him/her to purchase the scareware program. Ofcourse, if you fall in the trap and buy Personal Antivirus with hopes that it will clean your computer, you just lose your money simply because Personal Antivirus is just not a real Antivirus.

Even worse, the program is a virus itself.Its main intention is to hide itself in the user’s computer and install keyloggers and other spyware scripts in order to steal sensitive information such as personal information, social security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords etc. It also infects your browser settings to redirect you to websites promoting the malware in order to convince you to buy it. So heads up to everyone. If you get infected with the Personal Antivirus scam and you see alert messages poping up with the name Personal Antivirus on them, you MUST take action immediately to remove Personal Antivirus program from your computer as soon as possible.

There are two methods to get rid of Personal Antivirus from your computer, the manual method and the automatic method (recommended). I would suggest the automatic removal method as it is more safe. Manual removal requires you to be expert in computers and is not recommended since you have to delete entries in the Registry or delete files under “Program Files” folder which makes it kind of dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. Below we provide links and information to help you learn how to remove personal antivirus permanently.

Remove Personal Antivirus Automatically (Recommended)

To safely remove Personal Antivirus or any other malware and viruses residing on your computer, I would recommend you to use a proven and trusted Antispyware Tool. Download Spyware Doctor free scanner, run it and have it scan your PC for free. The free version of Spyware Doctor is for malware detection only. After detecting Personal Antivirus, you can purchase the full version to automatically clean up your PC from any malware including Personal Antivirus. This is the best and fail safe method to remove Personal Antivirus.

Remove Personal Antivirus Manually

This manuall removal method requires you to proceed with caution and backup everything including the computer registry. You need to know what you are doing before manually removing Personal Antivirus:

1. First of all find and stop all Personal Antivirus windows running processes.
2. Search the registry and identify and remove any registry keys related with personal antivirus.
3. Remove any associated DLL files.
4. Remove from the hard disk all folders and files where Personal Antivirus was installed.

After finishing either manual or automatic removal, you need to reboot your PC and observe its behavior for some period of time to verify that everything is ok. Again, the manuall removal above shows you general steps and should be carried out only if you are experienced with Windows machines. Removing the wrong registry value for example can cause serious harm to your computer. Visit the following link for a step by step detailed explanation for learning How to Remove Personal Antivirus both manually and automatically.

The scareware program that we described above usually hides itself deep enough in the windows system and it might resurface after a while even if you followed a manual removal. My recommendation is to perform an automatic removal with a trusted and well known anti-spyware program. For example, the famous Spyware Doctor from PCTools software company will automatically clean your computer from Personal Antivirus safely without getting into the hassle to manually delete files and registry entries on your own. Try to find an anti-spyware tool that has also real time monitoring in order to protect you from being infected by scareware and rogue-antivirus programs in the future.