Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Removal of Slow-PCFighter

Slow-PCFighter has been found to display incorrect information on files and registry values as means of unfair, shady marketing. Furthermore, users encounter difficulties to get rid of Slow-PCFighter.
Microsoft security analysts have concluded the above program behaves in the same way as WinMaximizer. To be precise, WinMaximizer is one of two names available for installation of the dubious Windows utility.
A number of entries are created on affected machine a part of the software, which makes its manual deletion a laborious procedure.
To remove Slow-PCFighter, and WinMaximizer as its variant, as well as to provide the same treatment to other risks detected by free scanner, click here.

Slow-PCFighter images:


 


Slow-PCFighter manual removal:
Delete infected files:

%WinDir%\Tasks\SLOW-PCfighter-Administrator-Startup.job
%WinDir%\Tasks\SLOW-PCfighter-Administrator-Notification.job
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\Sync.exe
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\SLOW-PCfighter.exe
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\sfhtml.dll
%ProgramFiles%\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\MsgSys.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Fighters\SLOW-PCfighter\SLOW-PCfighter.lnk


Delete registry subkeys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{F6FCC591-A21B-47C7-BCB3-F535FBA210E2}
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\SLOW-PCfighter
HKLM\Software\Fighters
HKLM\Software\Common Toolkit Suite
HKCU\Software\Fighters
 Rename the remover to "explorer.exe" or try to install from Safe Mode if virus blocks download\installation

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