Should I remove Protectium?

Lifespan of installation (until removal)

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Version	Distribution
1.0	100.00%

from Pinwid Ltd

Remove Protectium by Pinwid Ltd

Protectium (Resoft) is a Chromium based web browser that is designed to deliver advertisements and search modifications via SimilarSites.

From the privacy policy: "In order to facilitate, improve, refine, personalize and match the identification and presentation of our products and SimilarSites.com results to your browsing preferences and habits, we collect information regarding your use of our Product including URL and Statistical Information of websites you may be browsing while Product is installed ("Browsing History"), and together with the Statistical Information "Non-Personal Information")."

Protectium provides Users, inter alia, secure web browser. With Protectium you can browse and feel secure more than ever. Without tracking and all those heavy ads you will browse with Protectium much faster. Protectium prevent others from tracking your browsing and search.

Displayed publisher: PinWid

URL: www.protectium.com

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\protectium\navigator

Uninstaller: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Protectium\Navigator\uninst.exe

Estimated size: 1.41 MB

1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
• Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
• Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
2. When you find the program Protectium, click it, and then do one of the following:
• Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
• Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Protectium.
4. If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.

1. Open Internet Explorer and click the Tools button, and then click Internet options.
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then click Reset. Select the Delete personal settings check box if you would also like to remove search providers, Accelerators and home pages. When Internet Explorer finishes applying default settings, click Close, and then click OK.
3. The changes will take effect the next time you open IE.

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click the Firefox button, go over to the Help sub-menu and select Troubleshooting Information.
2. To continue, click Reset Firefox in the confirmation window that opens. It will close and be reset.
3. When it's done, a window will list the information that was imported. Click Finish and Firefox will open.

1. Open Chrome and click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Settings. In the "Search" section, click Manage search engine. Check if (Default) is displayed next to your preferred search engine. If not, mouse over it and click Make default. Mouse over any other suspicious search engine entries that are not familiar and click X to remove them.
3. When the "Show Home button" checkbox is selected, a web address appears below it. If you want the Homepage button to open up a different webpage, click Change to enter a link.
4. Restart Google Chrome.

USER ACTIONS Uninstall it 75% Keep it 25%

MOST USED OS ~99% Windows 7 (SP1)

AVERAGE INSTALL LIFESPAN 134.89 Days

United States	76.47%
United Kingdom	11.76%
Brazil	5.88%
Israel	5.88%

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