How to remove Idle Buddy

What is Idle Buddy

Idle Buddy is a potentially unwanted application that causes various privacy problems and slows down your PC significantly. It is worth mentioning that Idle Buddy is neither adware nor browser hijacker. It has not been classified in any of these categories just yet. Although, it is created for exactly the same purpose – collecting personal details such as passwords, credentials, IP-addresses, and other units that can be sold to third-parties. Apart from that, the application can be detected running in Task Manager and pressuring the system by loading a lot of resources. Unfortunately, even if you close the app, it will reboot itself numerously until it is installed on your PC. Therefore, to prevent its suspicious activity, you should perform a scan and delete it from your computer.

How Idle Buddy infected your computer

Typically, Potentially Unwanted Programs are presented as something harmless and even useful. They can be advertised on third-parties pages that host freeware. This freeware often contains additional bundles that stealthily inflict unattentive users. Often time, a big number of people incline towards skipping extra options like “Advanced/Custom” that contain unwanted offers. Such behavior violates any safety precautious which results in unintentional infiltrations of malware. Make sure you limit the number of suspicious channels – fake malicious banners or coupons, misleading highlighted headings, infected emails loaded with attachments, fake software cracking tools that can be exploited for spreading cyberattacks, and others. Idle Buddy is a low-risk threat that can be removed easily without leaving any traces. To do so, follow the guideline referenced below.

Remove Idle Buddy manually for free

Here is a manual step-by-step tutorial for full Idle Buddy removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of Idle Buddy installer on operating systems with the latest updates and browser versions.

Remove Idle Buddy from Control Panel

To start removing Idle Buddy you should remove it using Control Panel. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Remove Idle Buddy from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Idle Buddy.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Idle Buddy from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Idle Buddy and click Uninstall.

Remove Idle Buddy from Windows 8:

1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Idle Buddy, click Uninstall.

Remove Idle Buddy from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Idle Buddy from Windows 10

Way one

1. Click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Settings.
3. Click on the System tile.
4. Click Apps & features and locate Idle Buddy in the list.
5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.

Way two (classic)

1. Right-click on the Start button.
2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
3. Locate Idle Buddy in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Idle Buddy

In some cases, Idle Buddy won’t uninstall and gives you message, that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Idle Buddy. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing Idle Buddy folder and files. This happens, because file wtc.exe or service does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Idle Buddy in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

1. Reboot your computer.
2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Idle Buddy

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Idle Buddy files:

idlebuddy.exe
idlebuddy.dll

Idle Buddy folders:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Idle Buddy
C:\ProgramData\Idle Buddy


Idle Buddy registry keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Idle Buddy\

How to block ads and pop-ups, offering to download Idle Buddy

As Idle Buddy is mostly distributed via special ads and pop-ups promising to fix windows errors or remove viruses, a good way to avoid the installation of Idle Buddy is to block such ads in browsers. There are a couple of programs that have such functions. We recommend you to use AdGuard to remove ads by Idle Buddy from browsers. Download free trial here:

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