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Should I Remove Picexa and what is this program?
Picexa is a photo viewer that is promoted as a useful tool that will improve your image viewing experience. The application is said to support 67 different image formats, to feature a high quality zooming option, and to reduce the resource consumption to up to 70%. The latter is also supposed to boost the speed of your PC, which should be another advantage about having Picexa on your system. No matter how attractive it is presented to be, the Picexa application should be avoided at all costs because it is considered to be potentially unwanted. This makes the program unreliable and even potentially dangerous. If Picexa has already been installed on your PC, you should not hesitate to remove it immediately because it could become the reason for many future security-related issues. So, take measures to protect your system now before your system gets overrun with potentially unwanted
How did I get infected with?
You can learn about how awesome an application Picexa is at its official representative website – picexa.com. The website also features a direct download button that is supposed to enable you to acquire the application quickly and easily. However, that will not happen because the provided download button is inactive. Considering the fact that Picexa is advertised as a useful application, isn’t it odd that it is not available for download at its homepage? Of course it is. That is not the only thing that should bother you about Picexa. Since you did not download it yourself, the application must have been installed silently. Your permission was not required for that to happen, and that is why you were not informed about its setup. Picexa probably got installed alongside freeware or when you clicked random ads you saw on the web. Both are things you should avoid doing because you will have to deal with PUPs later.
Why is this dangerous?
One of the clearly false things Picexa promises is to boost the speed of your machine. This will surely not happen because the application will run processes in the background while your PC is on, which will take up a lot of its energy. That will cause you inconvenience and can continue for quite long before you realize what the actual problem is. If you notice any changes in your system’s behavior, you should find the reason for them right away because it might be way more serious than you can imagine. You should not let Picexa remain on your computer because this application is capable of connecting to the Internet without your consent or knowledge and downloading malware to your system. Needless to say what the consequences will be if you let that happen. It is up yo you to keep your PC clean, and the first step to achieving that is deleting Picexa as soon as possible.
Picexa Removal Procedure.
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- Open your task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
- Locate the process of Picexa and kill it
- Open your windows registry editor by typing”regedit” in the windows search box
Navigate to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]
and delete the display Name: Picexa
Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command
Type “Appwiz.cpl”
Locate the Picexa program and click on uninstall/change. To facilitate the search you can sort the programs by date. Review the most recent installed programs first. In general you should remove all unknown programs.