Online Guardian is an unwanted tool developed by Microleaves LTD. This tool’s only goal is to annoy you by showing you huge amounts of ads while using that time to track and save your personal data. As explained on Online Guardian’s conditions of use, they can be collecting all sorts of data concerning you such as your first and last name, email address, IP address and a lot more specially if you happen to use Facebook while under the influence of this infection.
This adware is usually installed along with some free tool whose install process you didn’t customize. One small action as simple as clicking “Next” without stopping to wonder what you’re doing is all it takes to fill your computer with all sorts of malware. Although usually nothing that dangerous for your computer, there’s no denying in the fact that your computer will be slower than usual and that your privacy might be put in jeopardy.
Online-Guardian-v2.exe or Online-Guardian.exe are added as processes that will start at the same time as the OS. This program will also add several scheduled tasks in Windows, files and folders of all sorts and finally keys to the registry will be added as well. What this tells us is that any attempt at removing Online Guardian manually will most likely fail.
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