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Remove WinHound Step 5. With your tools ready for use, you must now boot your computer
into safe mode. You will need to restart your PC to do this, so be sure to
Safe Mode is a diagnostic mode of Windows that will make the remove WinHound
process much easier.
If you do not know how to boot into Safe Mode, please
read our online safe mode help article. Once your computer is in Safe
Mode you can proceed with the tools you prepared for to remove WinHound
in the previous step. Open your Control Panels and double click on Add/Remove
Programs. Once the Add/Remove window is open, locate the WinHound entry
(they are in alphabetical order) and click uninstall.
Although this removal seems
surprisingly simple, appearances can be deceiving. Close the Add/Remove window
and close the Control Panels Window.
*note* The WinHound program will still be
popping up those annoying alerts from your taskbar. This is normal. Continue
through the rest of the tutorial to complete the remove WinHound process
and stop the popups.
Remove WinHound Step 6. Next, you are going to use one of
the tools you downloaded. Locate the smitrem folder on your desktop and
double click on it to open it. Locate a file in the folder named "runthis.bat"
and double click on it to launch it. Click "Yes" on any security
warnings that pop up. Follow the on-screen directions to move through
the smitrem tool.
Once it has completed, the tool will exit and an automatic disk cleanup
will be launched. This cleanup can take anywhere from minutes to hours
to run, so be patient and do not interrupt it. Once the disk cleanup is
finished, the majority of the WinHound infection has been removed
from your system. However, there are still some manual cleanup steps you
will need to perform to finish the job.
Remove WinHound Step 7. Now we have to get rid of the WinHound
spyware application so it stops popping up alerts in the future. To do
this you must end the WinHound task. By design, the task is difficult
to identify. First, press the "ctrl" + "alt" + "del"
keys at the same time. The Task Manager window should now appear. Click
on the "Processes" tab. Under Process Name, look for any of
the tasks listed below in the list in your computer.
- avgold.exe
- vxgamet[X2].exe
- vxh8jkdq[X2].exe
- win32.exe
- xpupdate.exe
- alg.exe
- kerneles8.exe
- maxd64.exe
- services.exe
- taskdir.exe
- voi[X1].exe
- vxgame[X2].exe
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If you find any matches, highlight the task by left clicking on it, and
then click on the "End Process" button. End any and all matches
you find, because there could be more than one. As you end the processes,
be sure to click "Yes" to any warning boxes that pop up. The
WinHound alerts in the taskbar should now stop popping up.
You are almost done with the remove WinHound tutorial. This remove WinHound tutorial consists of one additional step.
Please continue through the remaining steps of the remove WinHound process. The entire
remove WinHound tutorial should take less than five minutes to complete.
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