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Cleanator malware description and removal detail
Categories:Ransomware
Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Cleanator.lnk

Platforms / OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Detecting Cleanator:

Files:
[%COMMON_DESKTOPDIRECTORY%]\Cleanator.lnk

Folders:
[%COMMON_PROGRAMS%]\Cleanator
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Cleanator

Registry Keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\contextmenuhandlers\cleanator
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\cleanator
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\directory\shellex\contextmenuhandlers\cleanator
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\folder\shellex\contextmenuhandlers\cleanator
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\cleanator

Registry Values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\shell extensions\approved

Removing Cleanator:

An up-to-date copy of ExterminateIt should detect and prevent infection from Cleanator.

If you do not have ExterminateIt and you are worried that you may have infected computer,you could run trial version of ExterminateIt, or remove Cleanator manually.

To completely manually remove Cleanator malware from your computer,you need to delete the Windows registry keys and registry values, the files and foldersassociated with Cleanator.

1. Use Task Manager to terminate the Cleanator process.
2. Delete the original Cleanator file and folders.
3. Delete the system registry key parameters
4. Update your antivirus databases or buy antivirus software and perform a full scan of the computer.

We recommends that all Internet users
back up any important information on their computers,
enable maximum protection from network attacks and malicious code on their computers,
refrain from executing suspicious programs received from untrustworthy sources.

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