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IMNames Adware

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About Adware IMNames

IMNames is an adware that sends advertisements for IMnames.com via Instant messengers. It may also download and install other adware on your computer.

How to Remove IMNames ?

Remove this adware using Spyware Doctor.

Follow these removal steps to manually remove this adware from your computer:

1. Reboot the computer to safe mode (click F8 when Windows start).
   
2. Click Start > Run, type 'regedit' to open the Registry Editor.
   
3. Navigate to the following registry key:
   
   "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run"
   
   In the right pane, delete the entry named "IMprocess" which points to "IM-svr.exe" ( if exists).
   
4. Navigate to the following registry key:
   
   "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinRAR SFX"
   
   In the right pane, delete the entry with the value "IM Names".
   
5. Navigate to and delete the following registry keys:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IMAdvertiser\AOL
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IMAdvertiser\MSN
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IMAdvertiser\Yahoo
   
6. Exit Registry Editor.
   
7. Reboot the computer.
8. Open Windows Explorer, delete the folder "C:\Program Files\IM Names" and all the contents within it.
   

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