Rogue software details: Home Personal Antivirus

Home Personal Antivirus is a rogue security application. In order to remove it, find out what files and registry entries to look for below.

Known system changes:

Files
c:\Desktop\Home Personal Antivirus.lnk
c:\StartMenu\Home Personal Antivirus
c:\StartMenu\Home Personal Antivirus.LNK
c:\Desktop\Home Personal Antivirus.LNK

Registry entries
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Home Personal Antivirus
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Home Personal Antivirus
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run
Value: HomeAV
Data: C:\Documents and Settings\userprofile\Desktop\
Home Personal Antivirus\homeav.exe

Source: Lavasoft Malware Lab’s Rogue Gallery.

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