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Danger level 6
Type: Adware

Forethought

Forethought is deceptive adware which may add itself as a toolbar onto your computer. It may also install a browser helper object onto your computer. It is also able to display vast amounts of annoying pop ups and advertisements which may drive you mad. You need to know that once Forethought has gained access to your computer, it will install itself onto your machine and will start up each time that Windows starts.

Forethought may go by the following names:
• Fore.thought
• Fore thought

Forethought may display some of the following symptoms:
• You may receive vast amounts of pop ups.
• You will receive large amounts of advertisements.
• Stuff will start installing without your consent.
• System settings will change with you didn\'t do.
• Your computer may start becoming increasingly slow.
• Your computer may become unreliable and unstable.

The best advice that can be offered is for you remove Forethought immediately upon detection. You could make use of the manual removal instructions but you need to be seriously warned that you run the risk of causing even further damage to your computer if you do something incorrectly. It is strongly advised that you rather make use of a decent and up to date antispyware removal tool that is able to both detect as well as automatically delete Forethought for you.

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How to manually remove Forethought

Files associated with Forethought infection:

mptft.exe

Forethought processes to kill:

mptft.exe

Remove Forethought registry entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMICROSOFTWINDOWSCURRENTVERSIONRUNftexc
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN\ftexc
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