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How to remove Badware Exterminator rogue anti-spyware

Malware Description:
Badware Exterminator (aka BadwareExterminator) is an unwanted application that combines in itself features of a fake optimization program with rogue anti-spyware traits. Badware Exterminator is being currently distributed with the help of its official clone websites such as Badwareexterminator.com, Badware-exterminator.net and quite a bunch of others. The program must be manually installed – mostly, by people who seek some computer security assistance and stumble upon one of Badware Exterminator misleading advertisements. Badware Exterminator is marketed as software featuring file and drive scan, automatic email scanning and quarantine, blocks unsafe Internet connections, restores Registry keys etc. Judging from the above, Badware Exterminator should be a heck of a tool to have on one’s computer. Well, it’s too sad those features are very misleading. Badware Exterminator has been designed to bring commercial benefit to its developers instead of protecting the computers it installs onto. Additionally, when operating on your PC and active, Badware Exterminator tends consume a considerable part of your machine’s processing resources so you might expect a PC slowdown problem shortly. To cut a long story short, Badware Exterminator is not the kind of program you imagine to be of help for your computer’s functioning whatsoever. So please stay away from Badware Exterminator and its deceptive websites. It’s advised to remove Badware Exterminator once it gets located on your computer.

Malware Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware

Malware Author: Radical AV

Threat Level: High

Advice: Immediately remove

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Badware Exterminator Website Screenshot:

How to remove Badware Exterminator manually:
Manual removal of Badware Exterminator is a feasible objective if you have sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries.

The files to be deleted are listed below:

• Badware Exterminator.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\Badware Exterminator.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Badware Exterminator

The registry entries that need to be removed are as follows:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Badware Exterminator
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Badware Exterminator
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Badware Exterminator”

Please, be aware that manual removal of Badware Exterminator is a cumbersome process and does not always ensure complete deletion of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why we strongly recommend automatic removal Badware Exterminator, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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