Remove Free Scratch and Win. Removal instructions

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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.

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

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Free Scratch and Win manual removal:

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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

Information added: 2005-08-30 03:43:14
Information updated: 2005-08-30 03:43:14

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