How to Remove Level Quality Watcher, Manual Removal Guide

About

Level Quality Watcher is categorized as Trojan that presents itself as an adware to ruin surfing experience and misleads PC users to make removal attempts by accessing Control Panel. Trojan.DownLoader10.41037 has been found out to be the cause of Level Quality Watcher’s installation. Once Level Quality Watcher is loaded onto a computer, some fake alert warning of PC security or other random advertised content will be ceaselessly displayed. Nowadays, Level Quality Watcher has been heavily promoted and popularized by some freeware/shareware, especially the ones occupying a place on famous downloading sites such as CNET.

Such result is due to the connivance most surfers gave to browser malware like pop-up adware, browser hijacker, Trojan and search redirect virus as they considered such virus is not sufficient to do something really harmful without severe problems being detected. As a matter of fact, information stored on the computers once being plagued by such virus has been spread in spammer’s world to tell what the most visited sites are, making them to be targets by infections for easier propagation.
 

Invaded by Level Quality Watcher

Computers infected by Level Quality Watcher malware suffer from random modifications in configuration. If one is skillful enough, one will find its indications everywhere in Control Panel, Service, Startup, Running process, Database, System partition without being removed with ease since Level Quality Watcher is supported by Trojan, which enables automatic reproduce after incomplete removal.

As a consequence of random occupation by force, vulnerability will come into being to be readily taken advantage of by other infections, leading to more computer problems spring up:

• Browsers (including IE, Opera, Firefox, Chrome) become tardy in response due to significantly occupied source.
• Some web widgets are disabled.
• Additional unknown programs/applications are mounted onto the compromised computer without authorization.
• Junks pile up in system partition to trigger corrupt files.

Since Level Quality Watcher is Trojan, it manages to bypass the detection of build-in security service or installed anti-virus programs by binding its crucial items to system ones. It would be better to adopt manual method to remove Level Quality Watcher because there are some rectifications are not able to be done by programs. Stick to the steps below to help yourself only if a certain level of computer skill is available; otherwise, contact experts from VilmaTech Online Support for professional help that guarantees a thorough clean including residual damages caused by it.

 

User Guide: How to Remove Level Quality Watcher

Step1: End Level Quality Watcher’s service in the Service function.

Windows 8

• Open Windows Explorer on Start screen.
• Access Administrative tools.
• Double click on Services icon and remove/disable the service named Level Quality Watcher.

 
Windows7/vista/XP

• Hold Win key and R key at once to type “services.msc” in the pop-up text box.
• Hit Enter key to enable the services window.
• Remove/disable the service named Level Quality Watcher.

 
Step2: Reset browser to remove Level Quality Watcher.

Internet Explorer

• Spread Tools menu to click once on Internet Options.
• In the pop-up Internet Options window, click on the Advanced tab.
• Press Restore Defaults button and then press OK to reset IE.

 
Firefox

• Spread Firefox button and point the mouse to “Help and select Troubleshooting information” in the drop down list.
• Locate a box containing ‘Reset Firefox’ button on the left uppers corner of the web page.

 
Google Chrome

• Spread ‘Customize and Control Google Chrome’ menu to select ‘Options’.
• Navigate to ‘Under the Hood’ tab and press ‘Reset to Defaults’ button to reset Chrome.

 
Opera

• Show hidden files and folders (explicit instruction on this is shown below) and tick “Show hidden files, folders and drives” under “hidden files and folders” option.
• Exit Opera and browse to “C:\Users\user_name\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera\”.
• Remove Operapref.ini file.

 
Step3: Enable build-in popup blocker to stop ads from Level Quality Watcher from popping up.

Mozilla Firefox

• Spread its Tools option to press on Web features button on the left hand side of the Options window.
• Select Level Quality Watcher as the intended item to be blocked.

 
Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Spread its  Tools window to select  Options.
• Navigate to Privacy tab on the next window.
• Locate pop-up Blocker section at the bottom of the Privacy tab to check “Block pop-ups” option to remove Level Quality Watcher.                                                

 
Google Chrome

• Spread its tool menu and choose Options.
• Click on “Under the Hood” tab to press on “Content Settings”.
• On the pop-up window, choose “Pop-ups” on the left pane and access “Exceptions” on the right pane to make sure that Level Quality Watcher is in the wanted list.
• Don’t forget to press “OK” button for confirmation.

 
Opera

• Spread Opera’s menu on the left top of the browser.
• Point the mouse to “settings” option and select “Preference”.
• Navigate to General tab and locate “Pop-up” section there.
• Choose “Block Unwanted Pop-ups” and hit OK button to finish.

 
Step4:Remove any indication of Level Quality Watcher from database.

Internet Explorer

• Navigate to Explorer Bars, Extensions respectively under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Microsoft\Internet Explorer\

to find and select related items and right click on selected item to remove Level Quality Watcher.

 
Google Chrome

• Navigate to Clients, ClientState and ClientStateMedium respectively under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Google

to find and select related items, then right click on selected item to remove Level Quality Watcher.

• Navigate to ClientState under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update

to find and select related items, right click on selected item to remove Level Quality Watcher.

• Navigate to Common under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\

to find and select associated items and right click on selected item to remove Level Quality Watcher.
 
Mozilla Firefox

• Navigate to Extensions under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Microsoft\Mozilla\ Firefox

to find and select associated items and right click on selected item to remove Level Quality Watcher.

• Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Microsoft\MozillaPlugins

to find and select associated items and right click on selected item to remove Level Quality Watcher.
 
Opera

• Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Opera Software

to find and select items generated by Level Quality Watcher. and then right click on selected item to delete it.

 

Conclusion:

It is a misconception that Level Quality Watcher is classified as an adware. As a matter of fact, Level Quality Watcher is a Trojan. There are many patterns of manifestation for a Trojan and adware one of them. A Trojan modifies as many key system configurations as possible while an adware doesn’t except the ones regarding browsers. According to the places Level Quality Watcher settles, it is well convincing that Level Quality Watcher is a piece of Trojan featuring information theft and backdoor opening. As a result, more undesirable computer issues happen, which is why some victims consider Level Quality Watcher the source of malware. To safeguard your computer and be free from unwanted PC problems, manual method is the top option to be involved in its removal since Level Quality Watcher is good at covering its trace and bypassing security utilities. Should there be any questions or confusions on the above steps, it is advisable to consult experts from VilmaTech Online Support for one-to-one guidance and answers.

 

Published & last updated on December 12, 2013 by Erik V. Miller