Win32 Virus Removal

Antivirus 2010 Security Centre is a fake anti-spyware, anti-virus and anti-malware software application which infected your system with help from various types of false online anti-malicious software scanning tools. So, you got infected with Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus by clicking on various banners that stated that your PC is infected and that you need to scan your computer and after the scanning process is completed it will say that your computer is infected with various viruses, despite the fact that you computer is perfectly clean and doesn’t contain even the smallest trace of a virus. The infection with Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus occurs when the scanning is completed and you allow it to be downloaded on your computer.

Antivirus 2010 Security Centre

After the Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus manages to settle in your PC, it will program itself to start when Windows logs on. It will start a new scanning process and the scanning results are all false. All the so-called infected files, are in fact perfectly clean. This fake anti-virus software was developed to provide false infection results and to make users believe that they need to buy the full application in order to be able to remove the infected files from their computers. All this that I’ve told you is true and the Antivirus 2010 Security Centre is in fact the Virus and now your system is infected. Also, the infections results are in fact important Windows files and if you decide to remove them, you will manage to harm your PC pretty badly.

To confirm your suspicious that your system is infected, you can download the HijackThis software application and allow it to scan your system registries. If in the scanning log you find the line below, it means that your system is surely infected with Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus. Download HijackThis from HERE.

• O23 – Service: Antivirus 2010 (userinit) – Unknown owner – \\.\globalrootC:\WINDOWS\system32\us?rinit.exe (file missing)

This being said, let me tell you that there is a sign of hope for you, because below you’ll find the exact step-by-step removal guide for Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus. So, see below what you have to do, in order to remove the Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus :

1. First, you need to save all the instructions contained in this removal guide, because at some point you will have to close all the windows and applications that are running. You can print them or you can save them in a text document and transfer them to removable storage device / disc.
2. Also, all the applications that you will need to download should be saved on a similar removable storage device or you should download them directly on another computer and run them from a USB flash drive, CD / DVD or of an external drive.
3. Now, let’s get to business. Download the Rkill.com application, which is a tool that we need to use in order to terminate all the running processes of Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus. Download Rkill.com from HERE.
4. Now, double click Rkill.com and it will start closing all the running processes of Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus. Please note that it might a while before it will terminate all the Antivirus 2010 Centre’s processes. After Rkill.com finished its work it will close itself, you can go to the next step. If you see a warning messaged that says that Rkill.com is infected, do not worry because this is a false warning displayed by Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus which tries to protect itself against being removed. Leave those messages opened, because Rkill.com will make the Virus to bypass itself and so it will manage to close all the malware processes. So, you need to start Rkill.com until all processes are terminated. If, by any chance, Rkill.com doesn’t work, you can use eXplorer.exe or iExplore.exe to try and close all malware processes, those two applications are similar to Rkill.com. Also, you shouldn’t allow your system to reboot, because those malicious processes will be re-enabled. So, DO NOT RESTART WINDOWS, please.
5. Now, download the Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware application. Download it from HERE and save it to your desktop.
6. After Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, aka MBAM, has finished the download you need to close all the opened windows and running application on your and this browser too.
7. Now, you need to start Malwabytes’ Anti-Malware by double-clicking the ‘mbam-setup.exe’ icon located on your desktop. Now MBAM will start installing.
8. When the installer starts, please do not change any setting and simply continue through all the installation screens. When the installation is completed, please make sure that the Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and the Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware boxes are both checked. Now you can press Finish and MBAM has been successfully installed on your computer. Please, do not restart your PC.
9. Now Malwarebytes’ should start automatically and it will ask you if you want to update it, but it already performed the updating process after installation and you can close the update window and you will be taken to the main window of MBAM. See image below.
   

   MBAM Scanning Options

10. In the Scanner tab screen, you need to be sure that the box to the left of ‘Perform Full Scan’ feature is checked. After that you can press ‘Scan’ and MBAM will start looking for the Antivirus 2010 Security Center Virus malicious files and other infections.
11. The scanning process might last a little longer than you expect. Please go read a magazine or play a board game, and from time to time come back and check on the scanning process to see if it finished finding the malicious files.
    

    MBAM's Scanning Process

12. After the scanning operation is completed, MBAM will display a window message where you need to click OK and you can get to the next step of the Antivirus 2010 Security Centre Virus removal guide.
    

    Scanning Process Completed

13. Now you should see the Scanner Tab screen again and you need to press ‘Show Results’ and continue with the removal process.
14. At the scanning results you need to press the Remove Selected and MBAM will start deleting all the malicious software. If Malwarebytes’ asks you to reboot your computer, please let it Reboot your computer, because by doing this MBAM will completely remove all the infected files. After your system finished restarting you can go on and follow the next steps.
    

    Scanning Results

15. After Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware completed the removal process, it will automatically open the scanning log in Notepad and after you finish looking through it, you can terminate Notepad.
16. Now you can close Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.

After you successfully completed all the above steps, the Antivirus 2010 Security Center Virus has been completely uninstalled / removed from your computer and now you are able to use your PC without any worries. If you don’t want your computer to get infected again, you need to start looking for a better anti-virus application or you can choose to purchase the Pro version of Malwarebyte’ Anti-Malware, which is able to keep away any type of malware threat.

I hope that you managed to understand easily all the instructions on how to uninstall / remove the Antivirus 2010 Security Center virus completely from your system. If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the comments field.