ECO Antivirus 2010 removal. How to remove ECO Antivirus?
ECO Antivirus (aka ECO Antivirus 2010) is a clone of the infamous GreenAV, Badware Protector and Anti-virus-1 rogue antivirus. ECO Antivirus is a rogue because it uses deceptive promotion techniques and exaggerated scan results as a method to make you think you are infected. Once running it will scan your computer and then list a variety of infections that it will not remove until you purchase the program. These infections, though, are not real and do not exist on your computer. ECO Antivirus is only showing them to try and trick you into thinking that there is some sort of infection on your computer.
These fake infection files, though, are harmless and cannot harm your computer in any way. They are only being used to scare you into thinking you are infected so that you purchase the program. The files that were created on our test computer are:
While Eco AntiVirus 2010 is running it will also display numerous security alerts from your Windows taskbar. These alerts will have the following messages:
Spyware activity alert!
Trojan.IEMonster activity detected. It is spyware that attempts to steal passwords from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Outlook and other programs, including logins and passwords from online banking sessions, eBay, PayPal.
System files modification alert!
Some critical system files of your computer were modified by malicious program. It may cause system instability and data loss. Click here to block unathorised modifications by removing threats (Recommended).
Privacy Violation alert!
Eco AntiVirus detected a Privacy Violation. A program is secretly sending your private data to an untrusted internet host. click here to block this activity by removing the threat (Recommended).
Internal conflict alert.
Eco AntiVirus detected internal software conflict. Some applicztion tries to get access to system kernel (such behavior is typical to Spyware/Malware). It may cause crash of your computer.
Eco AntiVirus has automatically analyzed your computer for virus and other malwares.
If you have purchased it already, we suggest that you contact your credit card company and explain that this program is a scam and that you would like to dispute the charges.
You can get rid of ECO Antivirus using Trojan Remover.
ECO Antivirus automatical remover:
As you might have foreseen, ECO Antivirus is not a lonely walker in the empty space. In contrary, it has multiple ties with other rogues so that complex malware removal is the best way to get rid of ECO Antivirus. In addition, if you remove ECO Antivirus automatically, you get life-time protection from malware aggression.
ECO Antivirus manual removal guide:
Delete ECO Antivirus files:
%CommonAppData%\eca\Base.dat%CommonAppData%\eca\msdl.exe
%CommonAppData%\eca\msll.exe
%CommonAppData%\eca\vec.exe
%CommonAppData%\Microsoft\Machine\WStech.dll
%CommonDesktop%\Eco AntiVirus.lnk
Delete ECO Antivirus registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ECOHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Eco
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “mxcll”
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Comments
I was looking for Antivirus online to protact my computer, and I found ECO Antivirus , so i paid $99 using my cridet card and now i do not know if im going to recive the ECO Antivirus by mail or what’ the deal. i was given a an activate cod but it was not working, the email that i gave was maadzymoe@att.net
como desinstalo el eco antivirus que me esta reiniciando el equipo y ya no lo quiero tener mas?