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How to remove Gator adware

Malware Description:
Gator is an application originally developed to facilitate filling out passwords and other credentials on the computer with Gator installed. Gator is designed by Claria enterprise and is marketed as legitimate useful software, and actually is such in a way. The only drawback of its residing on your machine is the fact that it will track down your web-surfing habits, record them and transmit to remote intruders. As a result, Gator will issue dozens of its adware pop-ups when you are surfing the web, no matter what website you try to visit. In addition to being extremely annoying, Gator’s adware will almost disable normal use of web browser and record your online activities to subsequently pass them over to controlling attackers. Gator is known to affect predominantly the PCs with Internet Explorer running. If you are not willing to let hackers find out your personal details, including such strictly confidential data as e.g. your credit card details, you should get rid of Gator software until it gets too far compromising your privacy and annoying you.

Malware Type: Adware

Malware Author: Claria

Threat Level: High

Advice: Remove

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

The folders to be deleted are listed below:

• %Program Files%\gator.com
• %Program Files%\webrebates\system\temp
• %Program Files%\common files\gmt
• %Windows%\system32\pcs
• %Windows%\temp\adware
• %Windows%\temp\fsg_tmp

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

• HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\getandrun.dfrun
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\gator.com
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\menuorder\start menu\programs\gator
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\gator.com
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\gator

Please, be aware that manual removal of Gator 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 of Gator, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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