Remove Free Scratch and Win. Description and removal instructions

Title: Free Scratch and Win
Type: Browser Plugins	Severity scale: (63 / 100)

Free Scratch and Win consists of a particular program and Internet Explorer search toolbar. The latter displays undesirable commercial advertisements in pop-ups. It also can change web browser default home page to the www.xzoomy.com site, record user keystrokes and track his Internet activity. Free Scratch and Win is able to update itself via the Internet. The parasite must be manually installed. It automatically runs on every Windows startup.

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Free Scratch and Win properties:
• Logs keystrokes
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Connects itself to the internet
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Free Scratch and Win removal:

remover for Free Scratch and Win

Free Scratch and Win manual removal:

Kill processes:
fsw.exe, support.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\FSW
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\FreeScratchAndWin
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FSW.Application
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{47CC4DCD-BBC9-47A3-A677-44DB2559E0D8}

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
fsw.exe, support.exe, idleui.dll, fswinst.ocx

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\FSW

Other programs to remove Free Scratch and Win:

• SUPERAntiSpyware - Review - Download
• CounterSpy - Review - Download
• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 30/08/05
Information updated: 30/08/05

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