During the last years we have been experiencing a new type of malware software, known as “scareware”. Basically a “scareware” is a malicious rogue software program having as a goal to trick computer users into purchasing and downloading useless and potentially dangerous software. They usually generate pop-ups that resemble 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. After the fake scan they prompt the user to pay a certain fee 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 has already infected thousands of computers on the Internet. 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. If you get infected and see for example a pop-up message 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.

Removing manually Malware Doctor requires you to be expert in computer administration. Try to avoid manual removal if you don’t have a clue about computers. Basically, manual removal involves the following general steps. For a more detailed explanation click the following link to learn how to remove MalwareDoc 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 Removing Malware Doctor.

The scareware programs that we described above usually hide themselves deep enough in the windows system and they might resurface after a while 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. Try to find an anti-spyware tool that has also real time monitoring in order to protect you from being infected by scareware and rogue-antivirus programs in the future.

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