Antivirus 7 (or known as Antivirus Rogue) is like a malware itself than an antivirus software. When you are surfing the net, some pop ups show that your computer had been infected and you need to install and run an online check. A lot of people click on this link which leads to the installation page of this program. After installation is complete and after running a scan, you will see your computer has been infected with a lot of files, which is not true. These files are Window operating files, if you trust this software and remove these files; you may not be able to log on to Windows again. The most dangerous part in this software is that it asks you to buy this software to remove the infections. After installing this, it will run every time the Windows is start up. It is very annoying that it keeps telling you that you have to buy to remove the “fake” infections. If you are on Google, you will see that “How to remove antivirus 7” are common keywords.

So it is the best that if you had read about it, you should learn how to remove antivirus 7 from your computer and you need to do it immediately.

I will show you how to remove antivirus 7, just follow these steps:

First, open the Task Manager by pressing down the Ctrl key, Alt key and the Del key at the same time. Then if you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7, press the button “Task Manager” at the bottom to call up the Task Manager.

Then you press the Processes button, and look for the process named antivirus7.exe. Click on “end process”.

After killing it, you should also remove any of its registry entries. To do it, go to Start -> Run and type in “regedit”. You will open the Registry Editor of Windows.

Now on the left column, you should go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EVA246 and delete these entries. Continue doing it on: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\ {E2BFE352-A303-4EA8-88FE-CE35361D7E8B} and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WindowsCurrentVersion\Run "AV7". It will remove all entries of Antivirus7 from your registry, which will make your computer run faster and avoid the annoying pop up at start.

After deleting these entries, you should also check for the files updateexplorer.dll in the System32 folder, which located in Windows folder. Delete this file as well.

One last thing to do is to delete anything in this directory: C:\Program Files\AV7

Then, you are done! You can look for some programs to uninstall it, such as Windows Defender.