Antivirus7: The Antivirus Program You Need to Avoid

Antivirus7, portraying its self as an anti-virus program, is a virus of its own kind. I inadvertently down loaded this program. Actually, I was duped into downloading it. I suspect it presented its self as an update to Mozilla Foxfire, and it may be something worth watching for in the future. It is not unusual for Mozilla to announce an update to their software. It now seems advisable to check for updates from the Mozilla Foxfire program page to be sure it is legitimate.

After making the mistake of down loading Antivirus7, the program scanned my computer listing some 22 instances of malware. Selecting to fix these items sends you off to a page to buy the Antivirus7 software program. They do not seem to take "no" for an answer. With every minute that passed, Antivirus7 popped up with a warning message about one of the malware items. This went on, and on and on. Attempts to turn off the Antivirus7 program were fruitless. Changing the settings to off did not stop the popup windows.

Okay, I'll fix this, I said to myself. I will just go to Windows Control Panel and delete the program. Ah, but the programmers for Antivirus7 are already a step ahead of you. The program denies access to Windows Control Panel. So now what? I pulled up Internet Explorer to search for a solution. Antivirus7 even popped up there first thing. A search on Antivirus7 had numerous listings and fixes. One company offered a down loadable program that would remove Antivirus7. Great! I clicked on the down load option. The down load window came up, ran for one second and stopped. It seems that Antivirus7 was still one step ahead of me. These guys are really mean spirited.

It seemed that I was running out of options. Who knows what other software functions the programmers have blocked to keep you from defeating their constant message to buy their program and preventing you from deleting it entirely. I'm no computer wizard, and I can not go into the operating system files and delete this program without potentially making maters worse. I needed an easy means of escape from the relentless messages from Antivirus7. My computer was being held hostage!

Pondering my options, I remembered one of the features of Windows Vista that I have had a few occasions to use in the past. I wondered if they, the Antivirus7 devils, had disabled it, too? Back to Control Panel on the computer, I selected "Backup and Restore Center." What a relief to find that, unlike the "Programs and Features" option, Antivirus7 did not have this blocked. I selected the "Restore files" option and then chose a reset point automatically taken two days ago. I was still crossing my fingers that I was not going to be blocked again at some crucial step. I clicked on the reset date, and Windows started doing its thing. A few minutes passed before the system was back up but was Antivirus7 gone? The icon was no longer present. This was a good sign. I was now able to get into Control Panel's Programs and Features to look for the Antivirus7 program. It was not there. Gone or hiding somewhere else? I don't really know, but at least my computer was back to normal again.

So if you end up with Antivirus7 on your computer, and you do not want to pay them ransom, perform a reset to your last reset point prior to down loading Antivirus7. Hopefully, the Antivirus7 programmers will not think to disable this feature before you need it.