I hadn’t planned to spend my entire Sunday removing the AV Security Suite virus from a laptop.
In the past, I’ve had to remove a virus on more than one occasion but this one was a real pain. After a lot of searching, I found the fix on Bleeping Computer’s website: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-av-security-suite
The AV Security Suite virus was quite hard to get rid of. It gives you a fake virus scan and tempts you to part with your credit card details for a fix. It also blocks some of your access to the internet making it quite tricky to remove it. I had to use a second ‘clean’ computer along the way to download some of the fixes and transfer them to an infected laptop with a memory stick.
Be careful as there are also a couple of sites offer solutions that were also scams. The solution I found on Bleeping Computer does seem to have done the trick but I only completed it a few hours ago. There is a wide range of antivirus online to choose from so it is worth spending some time researching the various choices available. Additionally it is worth researching the level of difficulty involved beforehand in removing antivirus programs.
The solution I used is detailed here:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-av-security-suite
