How to Remove Alpha Antivirus

Alpha Antivirus is a security product that is a perfect opposite of how it was being promoted and this resulted to dissatisfaction for users who have downloaded it and some even purchase this useless program. This program is a rogue, meaning it has no means of protecting or even scanning a computer because it lacks of device and database to perform such act. Alpha Antivirus instead is a threat itself. It was being dropped on computer by a Trojan that infected computers prior to being contaminated by this rogue program. Below is a removal procedure in getting rid of Alpha Antivirus. Follow the procedure carefully.

Remove Alpha Antivirus with MalwareBytes’ Anti-Malware

Download and install the removal tool MalwareBytes’ Anti-Malware.

1. After installation, MBAM will display its scanner.

2. On Scanner tab, select Perform full scan to scan your computer thoroughly. This will remove all malware found on computer.

3. Select the drives you wanted MBAM to scan, if you feel that your USB drives are infected, insert it so that it can be included in the scanning process.

4. MalwareByte’s Anti-Malware will begin to scan computer and find files related to Alpha Antivirus and also files that are virus-related.

5. It will prompt “The scan completed successfully if the scan has finished. Click OK

6. Back at the scanner window, click Show Results to display threats

7. You will then be presented with the lists of threats found on computer. Click Remove Selected to delete all files and registry entries that it detected as threat to your computer.

8. After removing all malware it will prompt you to reboot computer to finalized the removal. Please restart your computer.

9. Your computer is now free of malware. You may scan computer again to ensure that all threats were removed successfully.

We recommend Full Version of MalwareBytes’ Anti-Malware to protect your computer from known malware and viruses. Remember, prevention is better than cure. You can get your Full Version of MBAM here.