Free Active Virus Shield from AOL
Freebies, News, Security, Blogging, Windows, Freeware, Software August 13th, 2006
Active Virus Shield is free anti-virus for your PC that combines traditional antivirus programs, stopping them before they can infect your computer. Active Virus Shield is brought to you as a free service of AOL ((i think someone is feeling very guilty about the search logs )) and is based on Kaspersky Lab’s award winning Personal Anti-Virus.
- New Threat Response Time of up to 2 hours*
- Real-Time Protection
- On-Demand and Scheduled Scanning
- Disinfects Files in Archives (ZIP, ARJ, CAB, RAR, LHA)
- Option to Scan Only New And Modified Files
- Harmful Program Blocking And Removal
- Disinfect SMTP, IMAP4 & POP3 Email
- Variable Scan Speed
- Help Prevent Slowdown During Increased Computer Usage Periods
- Support Power Saving for Laptops
- Support Microsoft Windows XP x64
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Consider the horrific breach of security at AOL aaant tell me this isn’t ironic.
It’s ironc as hell.
I wonedr what they are up to with that…
They kind of give away lots of things lately.Makes you wonder..
Evils!
I downloaded Active Virus shield in 2 computers, one pc and anoter laptop. both have xp and were fully functional. after download it shut some programs down and locked the computers up and could hardly get them back running. when I did, i attempted to uninstall and cannot, even used cc cleaner, unlocker and unistall from control panel with no results. it will not allow me to remore it!
Any suggestions?/????
Debie,did you made a backup or a restore point,before doing that?
If you didn’t ,then i am sure you can restore your pc to an earlier date than the one when you installed AVS.
What you must do first is to boot in safe mode and choose The last known good configuration.
Hint enter and wait to see what happenes when the pc’s are starting up.
Make sure when you try removing AVS that you have administrative rights.
With Administrator account,you can enter Windows in safe mode and try uninstalling it.
If this doesn’t work,then let me know and we’ll do it different.
Carol, I just now saw your reply, I have got AVS removed in all aspects except for my Services and I do not know how to remove from there. I did not have a restore point prior to installing AVS so unfortunately I could not restore to earlier date.
Thanks for the support…
I was wondering what happened to you that you never replied.
From your Services maybe you can stop it (Disable it)(search you pc for the name of that service and locate it).Maybe like this will work.
A good reg cleaner will remove the rest of the dead and null paths.
RegSeeker here will do a good job : http://www.hoverdesk.net/
Is a freeware.
All you have to do is to start a scan and type in AOL or AVS name,full name,shortcut and it will find the rest.
I recommend you using as antivirus Comodo.They’ve got a free firewall too.
Very good ones.