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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Stop Driverfighter.exe - How to Remove Driverfighter.exe Safely?


A computer user named Willie T asks help to stop Driverfighter.exe. 


"Hello I am in need of your help, I can not remove Driverfighter.exe. It is not listed in my control panel or programs and features. I did not download this program. Thanks in advance for your help. Willie T."



What is Driverfighter.exe?


Driverfighter.exe is a trojan running process. It pretends to be one normal process running in the background and appearing in the task manager. Trojan Driverfighter.exe might bring great hit on the affected computers. It can break into all kinds of operating systems like Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Please don't trust Driverfighter.exe. It's a very nasty trojan that can invade into the deep system and then change the information of host files and registry without victims' approval. The modifications may be a little and can't be noticed by most of the victims. As a matter of fact, those changes by Driverfighter.exe have an affection on the whole computer system performance. Definitely, it stops you opening some normal programs and dramatically drag down your PC. Driverfighter.exe is created by cyber criminals who wants to benefit from messing your PC.  


These Driverfighter.exe issues challenge you:


  • Issue 1: introducing pop-ups, redirects, ransomware and rogueware onto the infected computer.
  • Issue 2: logging keystrokes the sufferers make on the PC.
  • Issue 3: making annoying sound on the PC. 
  • Issue 4: installing backdoors for the remote users to access to the infected PC remotely.
  • Issue 5: dragging down the computer speed and making fake errors.
  • Issue 6: executing orders and shutting down some applications such as firewalls.
  • Issue 7: deleting your important files.

( In case the lessons offered below not fitting your specific issue or the variant problem, you can download the Driverfighter.exe trojan professional removal tool to fix it easily. )



Important Lessons to Remove Driverfighter.exe Safely


Lesson 1: remove Driverfighter.exe manually (offered for those with a little expertise)


1. get the task manager and end the running processes related to Driverfighter.exe or the suspicious ones.
(to the quick way to bring up Task Manager Window:Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc )


2. Show hidden files and folders.

  • open Folder Options by clicking the Start button
  • clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization

  • clicking Folder Options
  • click the View tab.
  • under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)
  • click OK.


( This is for the lazy guys: if you don't have much expertise or time to remove it manually in person, you are strongly recommended to use the top removal tool SpyHunter to get rid of Driverfighter.exe permanently for you. )

Get the strong removal tool from here:


3. Open Registry Entries. Find out the malicious files and entries and then delete all.
(Tip: back up your PC before making any changes.)

  • Press Windows key + R to open Run box. 
  • in the “Open” field, type “regedit” and click the “OK” button.


Then Registry Editor window pops up as the following picture shows:

  • Search for the malicious files and registry entries and then remove all of them:
%CommonAppData%\<random>.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\<random>.exe
%temp%\<random>.exe
C:\Program Files\<random>

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation"=1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msseces.exe "Debugger"="svchost.exe"

4. Restart your beloved PC immediately to take effect. 

Lesson 2: you can remove Driverfighter.exe easily just by clicking and clicking again.



  • There are 2 selections offered: click Save or Run to install the program. We recommend you to save it on the desktop if you choose Save for the reason that you can immediately start the free scan by using the desktop icon.
  • After downloading, double click the downloaded file and follow the prompts to install the removal tool.

2. Installing the strong removal tool needs your permission, please click Run.


Click Continue to get the Install option



A good gain consumes time. Please wait for the files downloading... 


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It can be a little boring during the scanning. Would you like to sing a song or have some coffee to ease down?


Finally you get here. You know what to do.


Important Note

You wouldn't know that it is a high-risk threat to be attacked by Driverfighter.exe. Once your computer becomes its target, you would have a lot of nasty issue to fix. Now get Spyhunter to handle Driverfighter.exe before it is too late. The sooner, the better. 

( Kris )

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