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What is Gator?

GAIN is a advertisement serving network which copies viruses in computers of users with the help of adware technology developed by The Gator Corp. The advertising network is supposed to be based on permissions (user is aware of installing adware) in addition to free software. When user decide to stop receiving advertisements, it should be possible to easily uninstall the advertising application. However, any GAIN/Gator components prevent attempt to perform uninstall process.

How you can remove it?

To be able to remove Gator you need to stop it loading in startup. To remove Gator and GAIN applications the way that Gator would like, you could follow their instructions. However, the instructions are not the exact steps required, particularly if you have multiple GAIN applications installed. Procedure below is way more effective.

Delete this key and then reboot:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\cmesys

After this you can remove Gator files and folders:

c:\documents and settings\all users.windows\start menu\programs\date manager
c:\documents and settings\all users.windows\start menu\programs\gator ewallet
c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\gain
c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\gator ewallet
c:\documents and settings\all users\start menu\programs\precisiontime
Program Files\Common Files\gain
Program Files\Common Files\gain publishing
Program Files\Common Files\offercompanion
Documents and Settings\UserName\start menu\programs\gain
Documents and Settings\UserName\start menu\programs\gator
Documents and Settings\UserName\start menu\programs\gator ewallet
Documents and Settings\UserName\start menu\programs\offercompanion
Program Files\clickthebutton
Program Files\common files\cmeii
Program Files\common files\gmt
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\22219
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\22275
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\22367
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\22568
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\22599
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\22637
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\22719
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\23148
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\23294
Program Files\common files\gmt\d71256a02w\gb\23306

Delete these registry entries:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{06dfeda9-6196-11d5-bfc8-00508b4a487d}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{29eeff42-f3fa-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{38493f7f-2922-4c6c-9a9a-8da2c940d0ee}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{4006e7b2-0fb2-4345-b388-083b138e80af}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{456ba350-947f-4406-b091-aa1c6678ebe7}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{54e7e082-1da6-412e-96b5-c290fcef5329}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{6c8dbec0-8052-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{731918d2-517a-47e2-886a-3bc1380c591d}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\clsid\{a9ef28a2-55d1-480b-a403-84928d59f556}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\getandrun.dfrun
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\gator.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\menuorder\start menu\&programs\gain
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\menuorder\start menu\&programs\gator ewallet
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\menuorder\start menu\programs\gain
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\menuorder\start menu\programs\gator
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\gef
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\gmg
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\gmi
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\lastinstall
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\sevt
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\sih
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\siseq
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\sseq
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\clsid\{21ffb6c0-0da1-11d5-a9d5-00500413153c}\uets
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\getandrun.dfrun

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