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Internet Antivirus Pro is a software application designed to intermediate online frauds. This software is installed on computer systems with the help of Trojans and other forms of malicious software components such as fake browser based security scanners and exploitable pop-up advertisements. Once installed, Internet Antivirus Pro will modify several operating system configurations in order to ensure its presence. Immediately after the main setup of this rogue security product is completed, Internet Antivirus Pro will start displaying various pop-up advertisements with security related content.

Due to the fact that the main purpose of this scam software is to trick PC users into purchasing the licensed version of the product, the security pop-up messages are nothing but forgeries and exaggerated notifications based on pre-made scripts. For this reason, it is not recommended to purchase Internet Antivirus Pro. However, once detected, the PC user should consider immediately removal of Internet Antivirus Pro as well as a complete computer antivirus scan using Spyware Doctor with Antivirus.

In order to properly remove Internet Antivirus Pro it is first required to locate and kill the main executable task related to this application. The tool that should be used is the Windows Task Manager and the target process is named “iv.exe”. However, except this main executable there are also other possible processes, such as “InternetAntivirus.exe”, “IAUpdater.exe”, “IAvir.exe” and “unins000.exe”. Once all these executable files are no longer running, it is possible to also remove them from disk.

In order to remove Internet Antivirus Pro from disk it is recommended to remove the entire contents of the folder structure located at “c:\Program Files\Internet Antivirus”. Additionally, in some particular cases, an auxiliary folder may also be created by Internet Antivirus Pro at the location “c:\Program Files\IA”. If this is the case, both folders should be removed and all its contents wiped off the disk.

Even if the choice to manually remove Internet Antivirus Pro may proof to be a successful one, expert technical consultancy as well as a complete operating system security investigation is recommended. In order to obtain such technical support and advice contact www.onlinecomputerrepair.org and a technician will get back to you in order to support in the removal of Internet Antivirus Pro.