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Messenger.Detect malware description and removal detail
Categories:Spyware
Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\License Agreement - Messenger Detect.txt.lnk
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\Messenger Detect.lnk
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\License Agreement - Messenger Detect.txt.lnk
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\Messenger Detect.lnk

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

Detecting Messenger.Detect:

Files:
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\License Agreement - Messenger Detect.txt.lnk
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\Messenger Detect.lnk
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\License Agreement - Messenger Detect.txt.lnk
[%PROFILE%]\Recent\Messenger Detect.lnk

Folders:
[%PROGRAM_FILES%]\Messenger Detect
[%PROGRAMS%]\Messenger Detect

Registry Keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\digital river\softwarepassport\foryoursoft.com\messenger detect
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\messenger detect
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\uninstall\messenger detect

Removing Messenger.Detect:

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

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 Messenger.Detect manually.

To completely manually remove Messenger.Detect malware from your computer, you need to delete the Windows registry keys and registry values, the files and folders associated with Messenger.Detect.

1. Use Task Manager to terminate the Messenger.Detect process.
2. Delete the original Messenger.Detect 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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