XP Antivirus 2008 Removal Instructions (XP Antivirus 2008)

Brandon
#1. April 1st, 2008, at 2:06 PM.

how do i delete xp anti virus 08 from my computer?

Marza
#2. April 8th, 2008, at 11:54 PM.

Srs: Me sent a warning that my PC was with 116 viruses and so I install the XP anti virus and eliminating, wanted to charge me $ many, it is in previno TERRORISM: beware! It is an anti-marketing, has read several comments about what you are doing to SELL.
BY PROCESS may be that, now I have as an anti-customer and make more references to you and with great anger.
Descontentado and furious despeço me.

Gerardo
#3. April 9th, 2008, at 6:07 PM.

te agrdezco la informacion ,que con las instrucciones esta todo muy claro.
pude hacer la desistalacion con exito.
gracias

Rich
#4. April 25th, 2008, at 3:45 PM.

I’ve never been so foolish… They make it look like the XP logo.
Pure Piracy!!!

ira
#5. April 28th, 2008, at 2:14 PM.

I have to tell people not to deal with this company. i paid $49.95 for xp anti virus they throw in some kind of file cleaner and added $20 to make my new total to $69.95 . i receive the file cleaner, i never receive xp anti virus. it is virtually impossible to get in touch with tech help. they disconnect you when you get down to number 2 and they ask you for your order number. i did get in touch with billing the woman (i think they are just a billing service) said she would deduct the $20 and she would send information by way of e-mail which i never received. i highly suggest that you stay away from this company. this way you won”t loss any money.

Amber
#6. April 30th, 2008, at 8:17 PM.

This is ridiculous. I can not believe I fell for this!!!! How in the world do you get in touch with these people???

lokesh
#7. May 5th, 2008, at 8:15 AM.

thanks, very much i did it finally

John Kovich
#8. May 9th, 2008, at 9:25 AM.

I fell for this also but I got rid of the pop up by going to SYSTEM RESTORE and backdated my computer to a date before the pop up appeared. It worked for me.

Rock
#9. May 12th, 2008, at 9:03 PM.

I tried removing all the files but for some reason, I could remove every single thing I had from the lists above but I was never able to get rid of wininet.dll in system32 shlwapi.dll in system32 also. Any idea why?

oily
#10. May 13th, 2008, at 6:28 PM.

I have never been so mad! I was online and all of a sudden this program was loading on my computer! It kept telling me that I had terriable issues. I clicked on my Norton and scanned and it came up as no issues. BUT, I can not get this thing off my computer. Folks do not buy this thing. I did not buy this, it was loading up and I could not stop IT……

a.m.
#11. May 14th, 2008, at 10:48 PM.

ok i am to the point where it wont let me open my task manager…it tells me it has been disabled by the administrator…yet this is the administrative account…any help?

J DONAGHY
#12. May 16th, 2008, at 3:05 PM.

Hi Ihave just got rid of Antivirus 2008, download a trial copy of(superadblocker) superadblocker.com and run a scan it will find antivirus 2008 and delete it its that easy .Its a good program and it is worth buying IT’S ONLY ABOUT £15.00

jake
#13. May 19th, 2008, at 10:23 PM.

I have a simple solution. I downloaded windows live care one, end of problem, it found the trojan problem and deleted it. No more xp virus, I will tell you that it will erase your current security means, not that it helped you anyway. But I figured you could stop banging your head against your keyboard.
jake

juan
#14. May 21st, 2008, at 8:54 AM.

no mamen todo esto esta en ingles…………

Jason Miller
#15. May 21st, 2008, at 7:05 PM.

Folks, the way to deal with this type of company is to call your credit card company and tell them you want to dispute the charge. The credit card company will take your side, tell you they hear this all the time and remove the charge from your account while they investigate. Very quick, very easy. Good luck!

Tammi Tracy
#16. May 22nd, 2008, at 12:10 PM.

On 4-18-08 I bought this program. I can’t find it any where on my computer to run it. What should I do?
Thanks, Tammi

msk
#17. May 24th, 2008, at 1:52 AM.

Please help I want to get rid of this fake xp antivirus and all the popups. I admit i made a mistake.

Niagne Agnero
#18. May 26th, 2008, at 10:43 PM.

Hi. I paid on line XP Antivirus 2008 on 05/23/2008 at 10:30AM.
My address is 120west 122th street New York 10026 Apt 6A.
I did not get any XP Antivirus 2008 yet.
Thank you

Niagne Agnero
#19. May 26th, 2008, at 11:00 PM.

I said, I paid this programm XP Antivirus 2008 on 05/23/2008 at 10:30 AM on line.
120west 112th street Apt 6A New York 10026.
I did not get any Programm XP Antivirus 2008 yet.

aman
#20. May 28th, 2008, at 9:46 PM.

xpantivirus .com/uninstall2008.exe. This worked for me…..directly type into the address bar and follow directions. good luck. These people need to be shut down.

Artie
#21. May 29th, 2008, at 9:50 AM.

I have this xp antivirus 2008, i thought it was from a microsoft update, but i dont even remember downloading it. It must have happened shortly after i updated my computer via a manual update to windows service pack 3 it took ages i have checked and it appears on the computer specifications window. But i never would download this antivirus because i already have a seemingly good ntl-netguard that has always been running continually in the background auto-updating and auto-removing.
I am puzzled as to how this programme ran without me noticing it.
I am mad.
Love to see new laws and more money invested to get computer hackers behind bars or make them suffer as we have suffered.

April
#22. May 29th, 2008, at 1:45 PM.

Thank you aman…did exactly what you said..and no more xp crap.
If you just do exactly what he tells you and type not copy and paste it, it will run an uninstall program immediately. It will remove it completely.

melissa
#23. May 30th, 2008, at 4:09 PM.

All I can say about this program is that it is the worst thing I have ever had on my pc. It has caused so many issues and I can not figure out how to uninstall it. Has anyone found out how to contact them to remove this program. I emailed them and still have no response. I want this off my pc now… lol. ok it is not funny but I’m pulling my hair out trying to get it to go away. Any suggestions?

sara
#24. May 30th, 2008, at 4:44 PM.

how do i delete xp anti virus 08 from my computer?

aman
#25. May 31st, 2008, at 5:54 PM.

Please read comment number 20 . Follow the directions. If you want to send me $29.99 instead I promise I wont plague your computer.

Sandy
#26. June 3rd, 2008, at 1:28 PM.

I tried the 2008.exe uninstall—-said it did it–2 seconds later–guess what–yep–it was still there–I re-started my comp.-bu that didn’t work either.
any other ideas??

aman
#27. June 3rd, 2008, at 9:15 PM.

windows or xp operating system? www.wiki-security.com check out this link down towards the bottom of the page and try manually removing the files listed. good luck

lkboysun
#28. June 4th, 2008, at 3:34 PM.

I downloaded for the same reason thinking I had 150 viruses andd now my computer is all messed. I am going to have dump my computer and start over. Not very cool at all. I also called my bank and i am disputing the charges. They said I had to file a police report and the whole thing. They will investigate this the person that is doing business in fraud. Good luck.

Bronagh?
#29. June 7th, 2008, at 9:50 AM.

i am really pissed. i didn’t buy it..it has downloaded my itself and i have tried EVERYTHING TO GET IT OFF….. BUT nothing worked…>:[
:’[ help me.. i need a way thath free. and this thing BLOCKS Everything single website i go onto…im PISSED! How do i get it to stop? x x x x xx xx
:’[
x x x

Steve
#30. June 9th, 2008, at 12:00 AM.

I did what Aman did and it worked great I just hope it aint still there hid somewhere on my registery or my hard drive

Steve
#31. June 9th, 2008, at 12:09 AM.

Where did you get that link aman? i get so tired of these other spy ware removals trying to charge you a arm and a leg and they dont half detect or remove dangerous trojans or spayware.

marvin pledger
#32. June 10th, 2008, at 8:20 AM.

if you god dam mother fuckers dont stay of my computer you will die .rember anthrices .you will get it stay the hell a way from me ass holes and i mean ever fuclking word i say you have no right to get on my computer ever fucking time i go on line and you will pay one way or another got bitches

Spence
#33. June 10th, 2008, at 9:40 PM.

I didnt want to pay for anti-spyware so i went to filehippo.com and downloaded three programs…

1. CCleaner
2. Spybot Search and Destroy
3. SpywareBlaster

After you get rid of your XP antivirus 2008, you can easily remove these three programs from the Add/remove program on your control panel.

hope this helps.

aman
#34. June 11th, 2008, at 12:02 AM.

I was fed up and checked about every website dedicated to ridding this bulls**t and got lucky on about the second maybe third site. I noticed that on the site comment number #37 that they actually will take you through all the files to check that it no longer exists. I was so fed up that I almost paid XP to just stop it all but realized thats just feeding all this. Im understanding just what a pain in the arse this is and hope this helps. Make sure your anti spyware is updated frequently and be cautious. I opened a picture of a new corvette thats how they got me. Go figure

aman
#35. June 11th, 2008, at 12:10 AM.

http://www.wiki-security.com/wiki/Parasite/XPAntivirus Also try this link.

me
#36. June 12th, 2008, at 1:16 PM.

I have never been so mad! I was online and all of a sudden this program was loading on my computer! It kept telling me that I had terriable issues. I clicked on my Norton and scanned and it came up as no issues. BUT, I can not get this thing off my computer. Folks do not buy this thing. I did not buy this, it was loading up and I could not stop IT……

these stupid mother fuckers are going to get in a lot of trouble when someone traces were there money went and cut that mother fuckers neck wide open for there fraud successes.

Robert Walker
#37. June 15th, 2008, at 8:54 PM.

whatever you do, if you are loging onto that coupon clipping site that requires you to download a coupon printer, don’t! My wife logged on and when she down loaded the coupon pinter that also contained this virus “Antivirus 2008.”

When you down load it, it also installs this virus. There are no virus programs that will find any viruses on yur computer accept for this one… Go idea, make a program to look like a Microsoft antivirus program and have it load up finding fake viruses and then charge $49.95 to clean thm…

Contact the FTC to report wire fruad! http://www.ftc.gov

Get the last laugh!

Haden
#38. June 16th, 2008, at 1:44 PM.

I did the first thing Aman said to do. it took like 1 sec but when i get on google ill say that my computer still has XP2008 on it and that i need to stop it. if i try go to a web page like ebey or youtube or any thing this XP antivirus page pops up and keeps me from going to the site. im only on this page cuz i saved it to my favorites really fast. :)

katie
#39. June 16th, 2008, at 6:52 PM.

i was struggling with this virus for 8 stinking hours! I went through all the manual removal steps and came to the conclusion that this virus would be the death of me. I stumbled across a site that suggested to use a FREE download at www.malwarebytes.com. After i downloaded. I ran the scan and the program automatically removed all the virus and i am on my way again! I would HIGHLY recomend using this site to remove this pest!!

jovelina
#40. June 18th, 2008, at 8:36 AM.

será que dá pra colocar as instr~ções em portugues? já é complicado remover em portugues, imagine em ingles, pra que nao sabe falar esta lingua. por favor, me ajudem. bjos

Chris Rae tenace
#41. June 22nd, 2008, at 1:56 PM.

Is a computer automatically infected if they don’t click anything? I went to a wrong website and it had the advertisement for it but I already knew about the fraud before hand.

Ruthless One
#42. June 23rd, 2008, at 2:31 AM.

Forget about all the steps people tell you to take!

i.e. go here, remove this registry key, download this software, do this do that. Forget all of it. Follow these and you will save yourself time and a headache.

Simply do this:

Windows XP (reboot PC — repeadetly hit F8 until options come up)

Select Safe Mode (I selected Safe Mode with netowrking, but I do not think it matters)

When you log into your account in safe mode it will ask if you want to log in into safe mode or log into safe mode with the intent of using system restore. Choose the system restore option.

Pick the most recent restore point before this BS happened. Whoolah. Everything is fixed.

Background on my issue: I was actually at a “bad” website (not ashamed to admit it) and my wallpaper changed from what I had to a blue background with a yellow box saying that it had detected spyware and stuff. Then it automatically installed that stupid piece of shit XP Antivirus 2008 program.

I proceeded to read up on the issue and follow instructions of others with no luck. I installed various programs and tried various things and nothing worked. My computer rebooted on me and then I could log onto my windows account for about 1 minute before I would get a never ending BSOD (Blue Sceen of Death) of various error messages.

That is when I said screw it I just need to try a restore point. So I went into safe mode and chose that option (described above) and everything is fine.

I happen to have restore points for every day so I only lost a half days worth of stuff which was basically nothing. So in other words, no big deal. I should have just done this to begin with.

I hope this helps. Next time my birthday comes around my wish will be for the people behind this crap to suffer in hell

(My idea of hell: This would be where you cannot see anything because it is too dark……you can run/walk in any direction and never find anything…….you are alone with no one else there…….looping music of the Brady Bunch music……and the feeling of people poking you with tooth picks all over your body constantly.)

So I will wish that upon them or at the very least wish to meet them in person at some point and punish them beyond recognition for all of you.

Hope this helps!

Sally
#43. June 23rd, 2008, at 12:00 PM.

How the heck does this thing install without anyone noticing that it installed? Jeez, I tried Superantispyware and it didn’t remove it. I’m using SpyHunter right now and its taking like 2 hours!! I mean, how exactly does it just randomly appear everywhere without even needing to have you actually let it?
I don’t even know how it happened. My mom got on the computer and she told me to come over. So I saw the virus thing and I waited for it to scan. It was kind of suspicious-looking, ‘cuz I’d never heard of any of those types of files before and it kept writing some retarded bullshit about how there was the most dangerous virus in computer history and its danger level was high, and then it said that I had another virus that installed illegal software and its danger level was critical. I was like, huh? Slip up much? So when it restarted the computer by itself for no reason I was like, okay, this is obviously a fake cheapo virus inducing program. And I went online and tried to download stuff to get rid of it, but nothing’s working so far. I’ll try some of the other ones later, but jeez this thing is seriously annoying. It’s probably not even really harmful, but still. It’s messing my computer up.
You know what? I wish I knew whoever made this insanely stupid little virus program so I could punch them in the face about a hundred million times, rip every single piece of their hair out one at a time while they’re tied with piercing chains, kick ‘em where it hurts, and smash their computers with all their little virus programs. Seriously. Maybe I’ll go call the place and track them down and basically smack them all in the face and ruin their virus creating place. UGH! If I ever met the pathetic little imbecilic computer nerd who made such a stupid little-ass program, they’re going to get it. Virus programmers are just so inferior to everyone else in the world cuz people pick on them or whatever that they feel like they have to retaliate by ruining people’s computers. Puh-lease! They all deserve to die. And anyway, it’s not like they’re being smart by, um, making a stupid software that kind of installs itself and won’t die. It’s not as if you’re actually fooling anyone into your dumb little software…
Bottom line: DONT BUY ANYTHING! THEYRE ALL NERDY LITTLE RETARDS WHO DONT DESERVE ANY MONEY AND LIKE CAUSING COMPUTER ISSUES! IF YOU EVER FIND OUT WHO THEY ARE YOU SHOULD POISON THEM!
Haha yeah I’m being kind of extreme. Idk why I wrote all this but I feel like yelling at those idiots. Sorry for my loooong rant.

John
#44. June 23rd, 2008, at 1:59 PM.

This is how I got rid of Antivirus XP 2008. It is different than the XP Antivirus 2008 most sites refer to.

First you need to stop the program from loading on startup. This is what you do to stop it:

Start, run

Type msconfig

Go to Startup tab

Uncheck lphc35dj0e1an
Uncheck rhc75dj0e1an

Click apply, then ok
Restart computer

Then you need to delete the main files this program uses. Delete the following files:

C:\windows\system32\lphc35dj0e1an.exe
C:\program files\rhc75dj0e1an\rhc75dj0e1an.exe

This should remove the program from your system but you probably still have a warning message displayed as your wallpaper in Windows and the virus removed the ability to change the wallpaper or your desktop settings.

To restore ability to change your desktop settings and select a different wallpaper and screen saver do the following:

Start, run

type Gpedit.msc

Navigate to User configuration, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, Display

Right click on Remove Display in Control Panel
Click on Properties and select Disabled

Do the same steps to change the following attributes to disabled:

Hide Desktop Tab
Prevent changing wallpaper
Hide Apperance and Themes tab
Hide Settings tab
Hide Screen Saver tab

You should now be able to use your computer normally and change the wallpaper to something other than the warning message Antivirus XP 2008 set it to.

Kev408
#45. June 24th, 2008, at 12:52 AM.

hey, im think im really screwed, my did a system restore to the latest i had because i just started my computer today because i havent been on it since friday, and i just got this antivirus crap. i restored it, and i still had it at the latest time i restored.i really need some help, and im only 13. Really REALLLY desperate. Thanks. please )=

Diane
#46. June 24th, 2008, at 1:07 PM.

Thank you “Ruthless One” (comment #42). I followed your instructions and fixed the problem! So much easier than trying to figure out all the steps to deleting it. You saved me a bunch because I always end up running over the Geek squad to get rid of this kind of junk. I’m going to try this again in the future if we end up with anymore malware on our computers.

John Smith
#47. June 24th, 2008, at 6:06 PM.

we should all get together and file a class action law claim on these A-holes. This is bad business practice if you ask me, and they should be held liable for damages and losses. If anyone have contact information on these people, then please post it because I would really like to contact them and bring them to court.

kenny
#48. June 24th, 2008, at 6:10 PM.

katie, comment #39 was right on. download malwarebytes anti-malware remover. it worked for me. 2mins to download & install. 7 mins to run the scan. 1 second to hit remove xpantivirus. job done

denis
#49. June 24th, 2008, at 10:13 PM.

como faço para desinstalar o anti virus xp 08 ficarei agradecido se me ajudarem,instrução em portugues por favor?

grato

Joe Shmoe
#50. June 25th, 2008, at 12:07 AM.

dont download this site’s recommended removal software, in fact don’t download any of the ads either. its all B-S Spyware programs that trick you into buying their products. there are plenty of free spyware removal programs on the web such a AVG why waste your time with these jackbags

pagliaroli lino
#51. June 25th, 2008, at 8:47 AM.

vorrei eliminare il simbolo XP Antivirus 2008 dal desktop, quando navigo si aprono semre finestre in continuazione come devo fare? Mille grazie.

Robin
#52. June 25th, 2008, at 10:15 AM.

System Restore will not always help, since Antivirus XP can remove all previous restore points (my problem).

Ben
#53. June 25th, 2008, at 4:21 PM.

DO NOT LISTEN TO AMAN! I tried it and it installed a trojan! Luckily AVG popped up fast and I hit cancel download.

Ben
#54. June 25th, 2008, at 4:27 PM.

I’ve found an antivirus that actually detects and removes it! It is called SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition, I highly reccomend you use it.

Tam Tran
#55. June 26th, 2008, at 12:18 PM.

I think my computer crashed , because whenever i login to my computer, it wont take more than 1 min then it turn blue creen. I do’nt have time to do anything, not even run a scan. I need big help !!!thanks
Tam Tran

r.williams
#56. June 26th, 2008, at 4:02 PM.

Where do these bl–dy bastareds operate from?

r.williams
#57. June 26th, 2008, at 4:08 PM.

Why are these people allowed to operate? Imade the mistakeof falling for their speel despite having avg protectiion , in next to no time it had cost me £108 gbp, only when my more computor literate sons came home did I find that I had been tricked. Informed the credit card company but it was too late then.

tuckster
#58. June 26th, 2008, at 4:26 PM.

Thanks Ben! Superantispyware worked. once the trial is over they have my order.

v1v1
#59. June 27th, 2008, at 6:04 AM.

supprimé antivirus 2008 manuellement

démarré en mode sans echec
démarré-exécuté-msconfig
fenetre démarrage-décoché (rhclgkjoeedm)-
rédémaré normalement et supprimé ce fichier dans C/Programfiles/rhclgkjoeedm
parfois les scans prennent du temps donc si vous manqué de patience!

AntivirusExpert
#60. June 27th, 2008, at 1:49 PM.

John #44,
your instructions are up to the point, however I’d add that XP antivirus may use random filenames, not limited to lphc35dj0e1an.exe
I’m getting requests fro help from people, and I advise them to perform a search query like this: *phc*.* because it seems to reveal the related infected files; the *phc* pattern is common for this malware as I can conclude.

Useless with technology
#61. June 29th, 2008, at 7:10 AM.

I restored my computer and now ‘Advance XP fixer’ is on, i thought it was suspiscious so i looked it up and its another damn virus, with ‘XP Antivirus 2008′ it said i had 700+ viruses, and with this one it says i have 100+ viruses, i’m hoping thats a slightly good thing
Will Windows Live Care sort out this new virus too?

After restoring my PC it seems to have gotten rid of the XP Antivirus little bugger, unless its just updated itself to the ‘Advance XP fixer’

Fed Up
#62. June 29th, 2008, at 10:38 PM.

#42 Ruthless One… I have that awful blue screen with the yellow box too. I think this is something called Joke-Bluescreen and I have tried absolutely everything to get if off. I was able to get the XP Antivirus 2008 pop up thing that said I had 600 viruses to go away by removing it manually. My problem is that my system restore (which I have used in the past when my kids have screwed up the computer) will only give me one date to restore too.. and it’s the date that all these problems started! So now I don’t know what to do. I have read about this stuff and I know it’s all bogus and the screen is just a screen… but I dont want it on there:( Anyone have any suggestions? Any suggestions on how to fix the system restore so all the other dates previous to June 25 will come back?

Sara
#63. June 30th, 2008, at 9:53 AM.

I am having a evaluated AntiSpyCheck Alert software running on my laptop. I like to disable it and not to register for the software. Can you please help. I keep getting the pop-up message that I can’t stop it looping.

Thanks
Sara

john lennom
#64. June 30th, 2008, at 11:21 PM.

eu presiso muito da ajuda de vcs. por favor !!!!!!!
a minha arede rabalho ficou toda azul .. ñ tenho aceso a amis nada depois que eu intalei o antivirus xp 2008 .. como faso para desintalar esa merda….
os caras estão cobrando uma furtuna pra atualização ora esa……

R@ksh is the G@me
#65. July 1st, 2008, at 5:17 AM.

Hey Fed Up, it’s pretty easy.
Repair your windows by inserting your Operating System cd.
Then go in safe mode (Press F8) and remove the virus.
Download a good antivirus (AVG, which is free) and an anti-spyware (Xoft-spy or spyhunter), update both and scan for viruses or spywares.
Any problem just mail me on sylaish@hotmail.com, I shall help you.
Do mention about your problem in the heading.

lol
#66. July 1st, 2008, at 8:13 AM.

alter ist XP Antivirus ein müll

this is the best solution of all
#67. July 1st, 2008, at 8:30 AM.

1. Backup your data
2. Format it!
3. Done

Simple, right?

Matt
#68. July 1st, 2008, at 11:59 AM.

This application appears to be associated with certain botnet processes. The processes initiate TCP handshakes with other systems, both local and remote. Certain processes are masked from msconfig and task manager. Never trust virus popups without ensuring that the sources are trustworthy.

ethan
#69. July 1st, 2008, at 2:23 PM.

omg i cant figure out how to get this antivirus XP 2008 off my freakin computer!!!
some one help me please!!!
ive tryed everything i can but im not that good at computers so its not much!
someone help meee!!

Ruben
#70. July 2nd, 2008, at 9:31 AM.

This malware is the most insidious and nasty one I’ve encountered.
Ironically, I went to a website for purchasing an identical laptop, like the one I use, to ghost the software and have a hot spare ready. Unfortunately, when I executed the codec video, which I thought was a working version of the PC, the virus attached itself. I, like everyone else here, tried everything to remove it but refused to buy the “extortion” solution. I tried to restore using Safe Mode and the virus had changed my administrative password!!! I had no choice but to re-ghost my whole system, but before I did, I completely wiped out my hard-drive, reinstalled XP Professional, installed Acronis (for ghosting), and mirrored my laptop. All is back to normal, but I lost a lot of time and created a lot of aggravation in having to re-do a few weeks worth of work.

Before I did anything, I did take the laptop to the Geek Squad and they would have cleaned it up in 5 days for $200!

Do be careful if you backup data from the infected PC…all the files I copied onto the thumbdrive were all infected. I simply threw them away. Why take any chances?

But I am with #67 above, which may not help you if you didn’t do this pre-emptively:

1. Buy a hard drive for backing up your entire system
2. Buy software to ghost your entire system
3. Back up your entire system at least once per week
4. Keep a thumbdrive (8GB) to keep a bootable version of Fedora or Linux for your system if you need to get on the internet for emergencies with the infected PC.

I hope this helps and I do wish these SOBs that are initiating this XP Antivirus 2008 are stopped.

Good luck,

-R

JohnTallSmith
#71. July 2nd, 2008, at 1:32 PM.

Be aware that there is a new version of this virus out now in July 2008. Answer #44 is the best for this version. It did not fix my freinds computer but it’s the best info I’ve seen so far.
deleting the virus folder under c:\program files is a good start.

jgab
#72. July 2nd, 2008, at 3:13 PM.

amusant la lecture des commentaire de cette pages , on dirait le service aprés vente d’une start-up roumaine … (start up= jeune pousse)

le tutoriel ne m’a pas aidé (et pourquoi virer des fichiers system sains?)
voici ce que j’ai posté dans un forum de discussion à vous de voir …
Bonjour,
Je n’ai pas fait la même chose que dans le sujet : http://www.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich 4977938 xp antivirus notification ; pour l’éliminer , ce programme c’était activé après l’ouverture d’un ZIP ;
le programme n’arrêtait pas de venir m’alarmant (en anglais ) que mon pc était infecté …
J’ai fini par le virer du disque dur :grâce au raccourci qui pointait vers le programme , puis fermeture forcée du programme et suppression des fichiers du répertoire C:\Program Files\rhc33uj0ee9r\rhc33uj0ee9r.exe -voyez un peu le rapport du nom du fichier et du nom du programme ) , ses raccourcis , ses actions au démarrage (grâce a regedit)
par contre j’ai un problème supplémentaire : il m’a supprimer mon papier peint et l’a remplacer par un message disgracieux ( image posé sur mon blog http://storage.canalblog.com/30/94/279528/27459069.jpg ) et je n’ai plus accés dans le menu du bureau a la fonction fond d’écran pour changer le papier peint …

amy
#73. July 2nd, 2008, at 4:53 PM.

ok, this darn thing bugged me for days, this antivirus xp08, until i googled it, got directions, and now its gone……
go to start, search for all documaents on hard drive with that name in it, not anitvirus xp08, but the real name. (right click, properties) and then it brought up 5 programs with that name. it wouldnt let me delet them directly or move them untill i changed the name, moved them to the desktop then deleted them. it also didnt take the icon away from the desktop or the start menu. i had to delete the short cuts after i deleted the new named file. its finally gone!!!!

Hannah
#74. July 3rd, 2008, at 3:38 PM.

This is stupid.
I download SpywareHunter, and when it comes down to deleting all of the friggin’ Antivirus2008 crap, they want me to buy it too!

guillaume
#75. July 3rd, 2008, at 3:56 PM.

je ne sais pas comment j’ai attrappé cette merde mais j’ai été obligé de tout réinstaller xp inadmissible , kaspersky ne m’a pas aidé à supprimer ce trojan, attention !!!!!!!!!!!!

Florian
#76. July 4th, 2008, at 5:13 PM.

CAUTION !!! I just uploaded xpantivirus.com/uninstall2008.exe from post #20 (aman) to virustotal.com. Many virus engines are complaining about it. Apparently it is containing new malware - even if it deletes xp antivirus 08. So I did not touch it.

titan
#77. July 5th, 2008, at 4:44 PM.

ei,galera,passem primeiro o spybot sd 152 e depois a avg at sp 7.5
espero q isso sirva,pois comigo deu certo,um abraço.

Big Tuna
#78. July 6th, 2008, at 1:01 AM.

Hey, I was recently by this thing and i actually used Aman’s advice. it worked to get rid of the xp antivirus 2008, but my computer still has some damn trojans and all this other crap. i’m using katie’s solution which was ‘malwarebytes.com’ or whatever, and i’m waiting for the scan to complete. does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get rid of the other viruses that are still there? manually, or free programs are appreciated. thank you.

- Big Tuna

Charley
#79. July 6th, 2008, at 9:22 PM.

I have the xp antivirus on my system and it has shut everything down. I can’t access any screen to delete this “cancer”.
Any help?
If I can’t fix it do I need to replace my hard drive and start over?

SEARogue
#80. July 6th, 2008, at 11:12 PM.

Hello all, just wanted to put an FYI up. FYI, the “B.S.O.D. or Blue screen of death” that you all are seeing are in FACT NOT BSOD, they are images the program loads. If you wait it out, the program will go through many, many of them & eventually come back to your main desktop screen ( the one that shows the blue & yellow desktop image).
A friend got this on his pc & I haven’t had any success getting rid of it yet. I tried removing it manually, tried a couple different spyware removal programs, a registry program to remove malware etc & even went through the registry manually. I plan on trying the malwarebytes tomorrow after he gets off work & will post an update then.

P.S. Hackers get the bum rap for everything bad due to mis-informed people. The media & many internet sites mis-inform people that “Hackers” are responsible for many things such as this & other things which hackers in FACT are not responsible for. It ERKS me to no end when hackers get the rap for crap that has nothing to do with hacking. Hackers get the rap for phreakers, script kiddies, etc etc. If you don’t know it was in FACT a “Hacker”, PLEASE, don’t blame a hacker & continue the mis-information loop.
TB.

Vanya
#81. July 7th, 2008, at 12:33 AM.

Hey, comment #44 worked for me, as far as removing the virus, thanks!
However…I have XP Home, so the gpedit.msc thing didn’t work for me. So I went ahead and searched and found a way to get it for XP Home. I disabled all those various attributes, but…it still doesn’t let me change the desktop wallpaper. I restarted my computer and everything, but it’s simply not working.
Any more advice?

JORGE
#82. July 7th, 2008, at 1:43 AM.

INSTALE UN WINDOWS 98 XP NO ACTUALIZABLE Y AHORA ME DICE QUE PUEDO SER VICTIMA DE UNA FALSIFICACION. REINGRESE EL NUMERO DE SERIE POR LA MISMA PAGINA RECOMENDADA POR EL AVISO Y EL AVISO SIGUE..QUE ME RECOMIENDAN?
DESDE YA MUCHAS GRACIAS!

matt chopper
#83. July 7th, 2008, at 3:53 AM.

Hi all, tried post #44’s suggeestions, worked like a breeze.

One thing though the GPEDIT.msc step only works if you have XP pro.. If you have home version that program isnt on your PC.

Tara
#84. July 7th, 2008, at 4:02 PM.

None of the “learn how to do this” links are working. I click on them and click on them and get nothing.

Tara
#85. July 7th, 2008, at 7:03 PM.

WOOOO-HOOOOOOO Nevermind, I tried that Malwarebytes program and it worked like a charm. I’m still not entirely sure EVERYTHING has been removed, but I don’t have the same problems when I restart anymore. This was a vicious virus and it took me a looooong time to get rid of it, so thanks everyone for all the advice that was posted on here, helped out alot.

PARA JORGE
#86. July 7th, 2008, at 10:03 PM.

IDIOTA, ANDA Y COMPRA UN WINDOWS ORIGINAL!

Corky
#87. July 8th, 2008, at 1:42 AM.

hi! Thx for the tutorial!

SAMURAY
#88. July 8th, 2008, at 9:58 AM.

ISSO É VIRUS ACHO QUE ISSO É ROUBO ESTOU ENTRANDO EM PPROCESSO CONTRA ESTA EMPRESA ,, FAÇA O MESMO ESTA NO NOSSO CODIGO PENAL E LEI DO CONSUMIDOR SABIAM DISSO,,, E A MULTA É DE 12 MIL REAIS

PC User
#89. July 8th, 2008, at 6:02 PM.

First, I upgraded my McAfee subscription. It is always safe to have a backup antivirus software. Then I proceeded to follow some of the instructions mentioned above. I downloaded SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition, and ran a full scan. I got my instructions from this site.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/675991

After the full scan, SuperAntiSpyware gave me a list of the infected files, and I deleted all of them. However, after I rebooted my PC, the blue screen with the warning sign was still there. So I downloaded the Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malaware software. I believe this program really made a difference. After I did a full scan, once again, I quarantined and removed all the infected files. By the way, while the Malware Scan is running, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and only delete the exe file that has the lphc35dj title in it. End that process, then exit your task manager.

In addition to these two programs, I followed most of the manual XP Antivirus 2008 Instructions on this site. I went to SEARCH and tried to find and delete these files:
shlwapi.dll
wininet.dll
But when I tried to delete them, they wouldn’t delete. So I went on a forum and noticed someone suggest that I should change the DLL to DOC, then place the DOC file onto my desktop, reboot my computer, and finally delete them. It worked.

Also, go to SEARCH again and look for more files titled “XP Antivirus” in the My Computer drop down menu. Delete any files given that fake title, and you should be good to go.

I also found Comment #44 very helpful. Please refer to that.

In my opinion, stopping this virus requires a lot of patience and time. Remember to always run a full scan, and schedule a scan on your antivirus software once a week. Good luck to all!

Mike
#90. July 8th, 2008, at 8:32 PM.

Malwarebytes worked for me. Thank you!

Joanie
#91. July 10th, 2008, at 4:57 AM.

After hours of trying to sort this, I managed to go to www.malwarebytes.com and downloaded the latest version. It ran a scan and if found over 300 serious errors! I deleted them all, then re-booted the computer - IT WORKED - even though it is running a little slow. I then ran my own McAfee anti-virus scan, which quarantined a few files. This worked for me - I hope it helps you too and thank you for Kate (No.39) who suggested it. Good luck!

Klaus Baier
#92. July 10th, 2008, at 12:21 PM.

Katie, ich bin ihnen dankbar!!!!!!!!!!.
Habe den download von www.malwarebytes.com gemacht. Dann lief der Scan ca. 3 St. - Und danach drückte ich auf entfernen und war alles los. Mein System ist wieder sauber und startete ohne Probleme.
Vielen vielen Dank für den Tip. !!!!!!

mfg
Baier

cool
#93. July 10th, 2008, at 8:21 PM.

every body its working im very happy
hey if everybody need help this is my email (cowok_cool123@yahoo.com)
im so happy

kill those motherfuckers
#94. July 12th, 2008, at 6:20 PM.

My PC has been infected so many times that has cost me thousands of dollars, I wish there are some organizations or groups that can track down those virus/spyware making motherfuckers and kill them all !!!!!!!
What’s the meaning of their existance to human race ??
they are alive just to cost damage and hurt people,
human rights is for normal people and not for those motherfuckers!!!

Marty
#95. July 12th, 2008, at 10:24 PM.

After hours of trying to get rid of this crap myself I seen where someone suggested trying malwarebytes. I downloaded the free version and ran it and it worked. The scan took a little over an hour and found 139 problems but once I deleted them my system is now running normal. Thank you to the person who suggested malwarebytes it worked great.

OhSoPissed.
#96. July 13th, 2008, at 12:00 AM.

Omg,
I’ve spent about 2 days trying to sort this mess and I think I might have successfully deleted the virus but no matter how many times I tried to manually restore my desktop wallpaper option and reboot it, It always returns me back to the blue desktop wallpaper and a message saying I should install an antivirus program. And I also come across few Blue-Screen-Of-Death (BSOD) … Please help?

Nole
#97. July 13th, 2008, at 1:24 AM.

God damn it.
My mother installed this.
Now, I think it’s fair to blame my mother now for everything.

mike l
#98. July 13th, 2008, at 1:25 AM.

I have both malware protector 2008 and antivirus xp 2008 on my computer. Is there a program that i can buy off the selves i.e. from an computer store that i can install to get rid of these viruses?

ninja
#99. July 13th, 2008, at 4:15 AM.

I used the NOD Antivirus to remove it one my friends comp and a system restore point to remove it on mine. The only problem is that we still cant get the task manager to be accessible on his and on my comp; my background is unable to be changed. anyone know how to fix this side effect?

Brian
#100. July 14th, 2008, at 2:19 AM.

Most advice available online to get rid of xp antivirus 2008 is crap. In my case, this piece of shit was able to block installation of true anti spyware programs and block websites where I could download fixes. It was even telling my antivirus that I have no internet connection when trying to update to the latest definitions.

If this happens to you… and you have certain true anti spyware software installed, try renaming the executables (either the installers or the actual programs) to something else. If you cannot download anything because it has taken over your Internet Explorer try to use another computer (friends, family, work) to download from www.malwarebytes.com or www.spybot.com or www.bitdefender.com or www.norton.com or www.trendmicro.com or whatever, rename the installer and copy it from USB drive or watever on your desktop and run it.

The idiots that made this junk are actually a bunch of amateurs.

Joe
#101. July 14th, 2008, at 11:29 PM.

Gotta love this stuff. Blocks Task Manager, Blocks Control Panel, Blocks everything you would need to uninstall it. Don’t know if this was a recent change to it, but now if you have no anti spyware tools (bro’s computer) none of the things listed in this “manual” work. System Restore is wiped out to AFTER it was installed, can not run ANY programs, complete waste of time to attempt to rid the system of. All we could do was boot up in safe mode, pull whatever files he needed to an external HD, and reformat.

SilverGenesis
#102. July 15th, 2008, at 5:08 PM.

My dad got this spyware on his laptop and the program wrote itself in to a different registry. I suggest using a scanner to find where it is. All the advice on line isn’t concrete. The names for the executables are all different from what I’ve found. I have complete gibberish for file names. Either pay for a good spyware removal program like Spyhunter or Spyware Doctor, or use their free scanning functions to your advantage.

I know where everything is in terms of the spyware, but I can’t get rid of it. The program locked itself in to my dad’s system. This is a freaking annoying problem.

mary
#103. July 15th, 2008, at 7:57 PM.

this is what i found from another site. and IT WORKED to remove this stupid annoying antiviurs xp 2008.

First you need to stop the program from loading on startup. This is what you do to stop it:

Start, run

Type msconfig

Go to Startup tab

Uncheck lphc35dj0e1an
Uncheck rhc75dj0e1an

Click apply, then ok
Restart computer

Then you need to delete the main files this program uses. Delete the following file:

C:\windows\system32\lphc35dj0e1an.exe

Then delete the following folder and all files in it:

C:\program files\rhc75dj0e1an

This should remove the program from your system but you probably still have a warning message displayed as your wallpaper in Windows and the virus removed the ability to change the wallpaper or your desktop settings.

To restore ability to change your desktop settings and select a different wallpaper and screen saver do the following:

Start, run

type Gpedit.msc

Navigate to User configuration, Administrative Templates, Control Panel, Display

Right click on Remove Display in Control Panel
Click on Properties and select Disabled

Do the same steps to change the following attributes to disabled:

Hide Desktop Tab
Prevent changing wallpaper
Hide Apperance and Themes tab
Hide Settings tab
Hide Screen Saver tab

You should now be able to use your computer normally and change the wallpaper to something other than the warning message Antivirus XP 2008 set it to.

damaris
#104. July 15th, 2008, at 9:58 PM.

thanks for the info hopefully it helps but idk how this got into my laptop cuz i never download anythin. well we will see thanx

sarpedonslain
#105. July 15th, 2008, at 10:41 PM.

July 14th this thing hit my office manager’s computer. How it got there is currently unknown. It reset admin password, seemed to grow and make things slower over time. Got into task manager briefly during startup load, saw two unfamilar processes which I now know from #44 were the #$!# thing, but couldn’t get to them in time to shut them down. Followed the first steps of #44 to stop them from loading up. Now am going to tinker and decide for myself the best way or program to finally but the sword in the heart of this beast. Thanks to all who posted their ideas.

Carter
#106. July 15th, 2008, at 11:59 PM.

Malwarebytes.com — it works.

DO NOT buy Antivirus XP 2008!

Winoff
#107. July 16th, 2008, at 2:37 PM.

Guys try kaspersky antivirus 7.0,it kicks the shit out of xp antivirus 2008

jasper
#108. July 16th, 2008, at 3:45 PM.

Got rid of that fricking thing using Malwarebytes.com , Running Win XP Pro. Tried all kinds of fixes, this is the only one that worked for me. Even took the icon off the desk top. It had my pooter screwed up real bad!!! Thanks guys.
jasper

DK
#109. July 16th, 2008, at 5:25 PM.

Thank you very much Mary (#107), such a blessing to have nice people like you who took the pain to document out such detailed steps so that others don’t have to go through the pain you did. Bless you Mary!…

alex
#110. July 17th, 2008, at 12:18 AM.

Thx all for malwarebytes.com

it worked very nicely

RAHU
#111. July 17th, 2008, at 3:56 PM.

is this a genuine antivirus that protects the system or just trying to sloil the system ……………..

Chris
#112. July 18th, 2008, at 3:02 PM.

Just yesterday, my mom and brother were on the Internet when a screen popped up saying that our computer had 41 infected files. They clicked the ad and pressed run. The program was then on our computer. This is a scam. Make sure if this happens, do not click into it. It isn’t an easy program to get rid of. I did manage to get rid of it for now. I haven’t seen any messages. Here’s how I got rid of it:

1) I pressed Ctrl + Alt + Delete to bring up Task Manager.

2) I clicked on the tab labeled Processes.

3) I scrolled down until I found a program that had antivirus in it. (It did not say the whole word, but it had pieces of it.)

4) I selected it, then clicked end process. A Task Manager Warning popped up. I clicked yes to end the program. The program then stopped and was removed from the bottom taskbar.

5) Then I went to program files on the hard drive. I went to the folder that read Antivirus 2008. I then deleted that folder. Make sure you empty the Recycle Bin.

6) I opened the Start Menu, and I clicked Search. I typed in antivirus 2008 to make sure nothing came up. There were some files that came up from it. I deleted them, and emptied the Recycle Bin.

That has gotten rid of everything that was popping up. To check, go to http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/. Do the Full Service Scan on the page. It will check for any virus and spyware, plus do a performance checkup of the computer. Depending on the computer’s hard drive space, it could take two hours or more. As I said, I haven’t received any more messages on my computer from them. I have Windows XP, so I’m not quite sure if it would work in Windows Vista or previous versions of Windows or Macintosh. I hope that this helps.

Warlock
#113. July 18th, 2008, at 4:13 PM.

I don’t even recall clicking on anything different when this idiotic Anti Virus XP 2008 popped up and continued to do its thing. I used malwarebytes and it found and cleaned it all up with very little intervention.

kamran
#114. July 18th, 2008, at 5:57 PM.

i want to thanx comment 44 i helpetd very much with my problem

Monika
#115. July 19th, 2008, at 1:28 PM.

I tried everything, but it still works.