{"id":4010,"date":"2015-01-21T14:51:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:02","slug":"remove-settingsguard-sg-exe-and-settingsguard-exe-removal-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-settingsguard-sg-exe-and-settingsguard-exe-removal-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove SettingsGuard – Sg.exe and SettingsGuard.exe Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there. I just found another bundled<\/strong>\u00a0program called SettingsGuard<\/strong> and wanted give you some removal instructions<\/strong>. SettingsGuard seems to be a variant of BitGuard<\/strong><\/a> that I’ve written about before. If SettingsGuard is running on your computer, you will see SettingsGuard.exe<\/a> and sg.exe<\/a> running in the Windows Task Manager:\"settingsguard.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

You will also see loader.dll and ld64.dll registered as APPInit_Dlls.\u00a0I’ll show how to remove SettingsGuard in this blog post with the <\/span>FreeFixer removal tool<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, how did SettingsGuard install on your machine? It was probably bundled<\/strong> with some download that you installed recently. Bundling means that software is included in other software’s installers. When I first found SettingsGuard, it was bundled with a download called Codec Perforer<\/strong>. Guess that is typo and it should be Codec Performer<\/strong>. This is how SettingsGuard was disclosed in Codec Perforer’s installer when I found it:<\/p>\n

\"SettingsGuard<\/a><\/p>\n

The installer file is digitally signed by Elephant Tech Software LLC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Elephant<\/a><\/p>\n

Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as SettingsGuard by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.<\/p>\n

When I mess around with some new bundled software I usually upload it to VirusTotal<\/a> to test if the anti-virus tools there find something. 35% of the antimalware scanners detected the sg.exe file. The SettingsGuard files are detected as Gen:Variant.Strictor.73974<\/strong> by Ad-Aware, Riskware.Agent!<\/strong> by Agnitum and a variant of Win32\/SmartCyberTech.A<\/strong> by ESET-NOD32.<\/p>\n

\"sg.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

If you would like to remove SettingsGuard<\/strong> you can do so with the freeware FreeFixer<\/a> tool. Select the SettingsGuard items for removal in FreeFixer, click Fix, restart your machine and the problem will be gone. Here’s a few screenshots to point you in the right direction:<\/p>\n

\"settingsguard<\/a> \"settingsguard<\/a> \"settingsguard<\/a> \"settingsguard<\/a> \"settingsguard<\/a> \"settingsguard<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.<\/p>\n

Did you also find SettingsGuard on your system? Any idea how it installed? Please share in the comments below. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n

Hope you found this useful. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello there. I just found another bundled\u00a0program called SettingsGuard and wanted give you some removal instructions. SettingsGuard seems to be a variant of BitGuard that I’ve written about before. If SettingsGuard is running on your computer, you will see SettingsGuard.exe and sg.exe running in the Windows Task Manager: You will also see loader.dll and ld64.dll … Continue reading Remove SettingsGuard – Sg.exe and SettingsGuard.exe Removal Instructions<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[368],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}