What is Ardamax Keylogger?

Ardamax Keylogger is a tracking tool that is determined for parents who want to control their children’s Internet activity. In general, keyloggers are controversial programs that allow monitoring what keys were typed on the keyboard, therewith the user who is spied upon wouldn’t know about it. Ardamax keylogger collects the login input through keyboard information and can send it to the designated email address within certain periods of time. Thus, Ardamax keylogger can be used both for good and evil purposes. With its help, cybercriminals may be able to track the user’s sensitive data, like passwords, financial and personal information. To prevent the leak of information it is essential to remove Ardamax keylogger from the system.

Ardamax keylogger

How Ardamax keylogger gets on your PC?

Ardamax keylogger infection is mainly caused by low system and Internet defenses. Ardamax keylogger doesn’t need user’s interference to get into the system. Usually, it infiltrates the PC if the user doesn’t follow the safe browsing practices. As a rule, Ardamax keylogger is coming alongside with Trojans that can be caught on malicious websites and P2P services. Besides, Ardamax keylogger can be installed on your computer manually, while you are away. So, it might be someone of your friends, family members or colleagues, who have installed it and now has a remote control on the keylogger to get the information about you.

How to remove Ardamax keylogger from your computer?

To uninstall Ardamax keylogger remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and reg keys.

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You can try both of these products to remove Ardamax keylogger

Or uninstall Ardamax keylogger manually.

Step 1: Remove Ardamax keylogger from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Ardamax keylogger.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Ardamax keylogger and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Ardamax keylogger, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

  1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
  2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
  3. On the right side, locate Ardamax keylogger and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
  4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

Step 2: Remove following files and folders of Ardamax keylogger:

Stop following processes:

NQND.exe
nsk.exe
akv.exe
akl.exe

Remove following registry entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Ardamax Keylogger
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\NSK
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ardamax Keylogger Lite
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\App Paths\akl.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Ardamax Keylogger

Remove following files:

akl.exe
akv.exe
nsk.exe
il.dll
kh.dll
akv.ini
settings.ini

Remove following folders

C:\Program Files\Ardamax Keylogger
C:\Program Files\NSK

How to protect the computer from keyloggers

zemana antilogger

Popular antivirus solutions provide protection from dangerous keyloggers, unless keylogger process was added to exception list. But with Ardmax Keylogger it may not work, as this is legal application with certain purposes of use. To detect any keylogging activity we recommend you to use Zemana AntiLogger, that works differently from classic antiviruses and catches keystrokes logging, snapshots making and other spying activities.

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