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Malware Doctor Removal

Written by OSAblogger on Sunday, August 30th, 2009

A new category of malware programs has recently evolved, called “scareware”. Basically a “scareware” is a malicious rogue software program designed to trick victims into purchasing and downloading useless and potentially dangerous software. A scareware that infects a computer will start generating pop-up windows that look like legitimate Windows system messages pretending to be windows repair tools or anti-spyware programs. The rogue antivirus or repair tool malware executes a fake computer scan and warns the users that several viruses and other problems are found on their computer. Then they prompt the user to buy the rogue antivirus tool in order for the rogue antivirus to fix their computer problem. Needless to say that if the user pays the money, the rogue antivirus will not help them at all.

Malware Doctor (also known as MalwareDoc) is one of those scareware programs that infect millions of computers worldwide. You can get infected by Malware Doctor when browsing warez, adult or other shady websites, or when downloading peer-to-peer and other torrent files. When you see a pop-up window of a program pretending to by a legitimate antivirus with the name MalwareDoc then shut it down and remove it as soon as possible.

To succesfully remove Malware Doctor manually requires you to be an expert Windows user. Do not try manual removal if you don’t know what you are doing. Basically, manual removal involves the following general steps. For a more detailed explanation click the following link to learn how to remove Malware Doctor manually.

1. First of all find and stop all Malware Doctor windows running processes
2. Remove any associated DLL files
3. Search the registry and identify and remove any registry keys related with malware doctor.
4. Remove from the hard disk all folders and files where malware doctor was installed.

When you execute the above steps, reboot your computer and monitor its behaviour to see if anything suspicious happens in the future. Again, the above are general steps and should be carried out only if you are experienced with Windows machines. Removing the wrong registry value for example can cause serious harm to your computer. Visit the following link for a step by step detailed explanation for Malware Doctor removal.

Unfortunately these types of scareware programs some times hide themselves deep enough in the windows system and they may be reactivated after some time even if you followed a manual removal. My recommendation is to perform an automatic removal with a trusted and well known anti-spyware program. For example, the famous Spyware Doctor from PCTools software company will automatically clean your computer from Malware Doctor safely without getting into the hassle to manually delete files and registry entries on your own. Another recommendation is to find an anti-spyware tool that offers real time monitor protection in order to block scareware from infecting your PC in the future.

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