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WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect – Removal Instructions

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Just another short post before going back to coding. Today I wanted to talk about a bundled program called WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect and thought I should give you some removal instructions. If you got WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect installed on your machine, you will find ProtectWindowsManager.exe running in the Windows Task Manager and an entry in the Uninstall Programs list named WindowsMangerProtect20.0.0.1270 by WindowsProtect LIMITED. You will also see a new Windows Service installed on your machine.

I’ll show how to remove WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.

ProtectWindowsManager.exe task manager

WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect is distributed by a tactic called bundling. Bundling means that a piece of software is included in other software’s installers. Often, you can avoid bundled software such as WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.

As always when I stumble upon some new bundled software I uploaded it to VirusTotal to see if the anti-virus scanners there detect anything interesting. Only 5% of the scanners detected the file. Baidu-International detects WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect as Adware.Win32.Elex.sig, Malwarebytes classifies it as PUP.Optional.WPM.A and McAfee-GW-Edition reports BehavesLike.Win32.DunDun.gh. It this the other anti-virus scanner will catch up in a few days.

WindowsProtectManager virustotal

So, how about the WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect removal? All you need to do to remove WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect is to check the WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect file, that is ProtectWindowsManager.exe, in the scan result and click the Fix button. You might have to reboot your computer to complete the removal. Here’s a few screenshots that should help you along the way:

ProtectWindowsManager.exe remove WindowsMangerProtect service remove

Hope this helped you solved the WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect problem.

I stumbled upon WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect while testing out some downloads that are known to bundled lots of unwanted software. Any idea how WindowsMangerProtect / WindowsProtect was installed on your system? Please share your story the comments below. Thank you!

Hope you found this useful and thanks you for reading.