Expert: James Filmer - 4/16/2009

Question
QUESTION: My wife may have accidentally had a pop up prompting her to run a scan for virus and clicked on it and now we constantly have a box popping up telling us we need to scan for virus and there is also now a shortcut for personal antivirus on our desktop.  I want to completely remove it and dont even see it anywhere in our list of programs.  We have vista and have mcaffe internet security and just a couple days ago I installed adaware free version which I have used in past with no problems and it has free realtime protection as well.  Its strange that we suddenly have this pop up just a couple days after installing adaware.  I am reluctant to do any online banking or anything until I know the pc is clean.  Will adaware or mcaffee completely remove it?  Why does it not show up in the remove programs folder?

ANSWER: Hi james,

What is the name and version of the scan-for-virus application in the pop-up or the shortcut on the desktop? You can right-click the shortcut and click Properties if necessary.

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QUESTION: It is called personal antivirus and the shortcut says pav.exe

Answer
The following is some serious discussion about your problem:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=134193

These two links gives you independent info about pav.exe:

http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/pav/

http://www.auditmypc.com/process/pav.asp