How to Remove Green Antivirus 2009 From Your PC
Green Antivirus is a malicious piece of software which has been designed to present a lot of 'false positives' to persuade you to buy their software.
The reality about Green AV is that it's a rogue tool which installs itself on your system and then works to try and scare you into buying it.
Removing Green Antivirus is actually quite easy if you know how.
You can't use the 'traditional' ways to remove it, you really need to do it manually or pay for a spyware removal tool to do it for you.
To remove it manually, you first need to be able to stop the program from running.
This is done by pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE and then selecting the following processes and stopping them: greenav2009.
exe, gav.
exe, mgrdll.
exe, Install[1].
exe.
You just need to kill those processes to stop the program from working, and then you need to remove it from your PC.
This is done by clicking on "My Computer" and then browsing to C:/PROGRAM FILES/gav.
This is where Green AV will keep all of its files to help it run, and is where you need to delete all of its items from your PC.
This is important, because without these program files, the Green Antivirus software will not be able to work at all.
You just need to delete the entire "gav" folder by selecting it and then clicking SHIFT + DELETE.
After you've done that, you then need to use a registry cleaner to remove all the registry settings it will leave behind.
There are plenty of registry tools around that you can use and there's one called "RegAce" which works well to get rid of any traces of this software.
Once you've done those steps, you'll be assured that Green AV will be gone from your PC for good.
The reality about Green AV is that it's a rogue tool which installs itself on your system and then works to try and scare you into buying it.
Removing Green Antivirus is actually quite easy if you know how.
You can't use the 'traditional' ways to remove it, you really need to do it manually or pay for a spyware removal tool to do it for you.
To remove it manually, you first need to be able to stop the program from running.
This is done by pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE and then selecting the following processes and stopping them: greenav2009.
exe, gav.
exe, mgrdll.
exe, Install[1].
exe.
You just need to kill those processes to stop the program from working, and then you need to remove it from your PC.
This is done by clicking on "My Computer" and then browsing to C:/PROGRAM FILES/gav.
This is where Green AV will keep all of its files to help it run, and is where you need to delete all of its items from your PC.
This is important, because without these program files, the Green Antivirus software will not be able to work at all.
You just need to delete the entire "gav" folder by selecting it and then clicking SHIFT + DELETE.
After you've done that, you then need to use a registry cleaner to remove all the registry settings it will leave behind.
There are plenty of registry tools around that you can use and there's one called "RegAce" which works well to get rid of any traces of this software.
Once you've done those steps, you'll be assured that Green AV will be gone from your PC for good.