Suffice it to say that Anti Virus 2009 is really another sad bit of spyware disguised as a legitimate program.

Luckily it seems easy to remove. Just download Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware program and run a quick scan to remove the Antivirus 2009 spyware.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

1) I was unable to press CTRL-ALT-DELETE to bring up the mananger
2) The desktop properties were missing tabs

To restore these features, go into regedit and navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
MICROSOFT
WINDOWS
CURRENTVERSION
POLICIES
SYSTEM

Set the data for any desktop or task manager keys to 0 and that will restore their functionality.

Fling.com
Fubar.com
System-defender.com
Boomj.com

After running my usual list of cleaners that I use for removing adyieldmanager, I found that I also needed to run Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware program which you can find here:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

The system I was cleaning showed a lot of trojan.vundo infections. I ran Mal's program twice and that seemed to clean it all up.

There seems to be lots of fixes to this related to re-registering DLLs.

The first DLL I tried seemed to work:

Click Start, click Run, type regsvr32 initpki.dll, and then click OK.

What luck!

There are two way to try and restore it:

1) Right click on the Start.
2) Click Properties.
3) Select the Start Menu tab.
4) Select Customize.
5) Go through the list. If you're lucky, you'll see Control Panel that you can check.

If the above doesn't work, then try this set of procedures I found on http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1191368503

1) Click Start, Run and type "regedit.exe" Press {ENTER}
2) Navigate to the following branch:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explor­er

3) Backup the key by exporting it (from the File menu, choose Export) as a REG file.

4) In the right pane of the above key, delete the value named "NoControlPanel" (if found)

5) Repeat the same in this branch:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explo­rer

6) Exit the Registry Editor.

The second procedure worked for me.

1) Regedit is disabled.
2) No Control Panel under the start menu.

Boot to Safe Mode and run SDFix.exe. You can download it from this site:

http://downloads.andymanchesta.com/RemovalTools/SDFix.exe

You may also need to run Hijackthis to remove a regedit disable key. Run Hijackthis and search for regedit. Check off the item to remove it.

This should allow you to run Regedit.

To restore the Control Panel, see the next posting.

Trojan.ByteVerify
VerifierBug.class
Java.JJBlack worm
Java.Shinwow trojan

These are malicious applets that are getting loaded into the java cache directory.

You can clear the java cache by going to Control Panel > Java > Delete Files under the Temporary Internet Files section.

If not, other users have mentioned these fixes:

• Remove Spybot
• Change from HTML to plain-text format
• Change the Outlook Tools/Options/Security/Security Zones to Internet
• Uninstall Windows update KB930916

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302089

You need to edit the registry so be careful!

In addition, you may want to disable the Windows Messenger Service, which sounds similar although it serves a different function. Still, it's another source of possible spyware and viruses so you might as well disable it.

This program from all around super-tech guru Steve Gibson will do the trick. http://www.grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

One way to clean this up is the Installation Cleanup Utility. You can find it here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

This program works great on Office installs and just about any other installation.