Inlog Optimizer - How to remove

Inlog Optimizer is a program which promises to improve your PC’s performance by giving you control over various Windows functions. This program might look like an important and powerful software tool, but it actually has features of a computer virus. If you discover this fake optimizer on your device, the safest thing to do is to uninstall it.

With its minimalist user interface, Inlog Optimizer is similar to SPC Optimizer, another potentially unwanted program that makes big promises about how it will “make your system really clean and fast”.

The truth is that Inlog Optimizer can’t do any more than you can. Installing additional programs to optimize your computer is usually a bad idea, considering that an overabundance of software running concurrently on a computer is the most common cause of poor performance. Inlog Optimizer is just another unwanted and even potentially dangerous program that should be kept away from your data and settings.

How Inlog Optimizer is dangerous

There are a few reasons for why Inlog Optimizer is considered by so many security programs to be untrustworthy.

First, it uses very dishonest promotion and distribution methods. Inlog Optimizer is often installed secretly, without you even being able to refuse it. Having a third-party program installed on your device against your will is very concerning; it means that yet another malicious program is installed on your PC — a program that installs malware in the background. Unless you know for sure that you got Inlog Optimizer intentionally and voluntarily, time to scan your PC.

Second Inlog Optimizer doesn’t do anything new or valuable. All the functions that it offers are already available on Windows, Inlog Optimizer only adds a new layer. This is something common among all the fake optimizers. Startup managing, toggling various Windows functions, such as automatic updates, editing your hosts file, even removing clutter are all things you can easily do without a third party program, but Inlog Optimizer pretends like it is actually doing something more than just accessing Windows settings for you.

Dishonesty is a theme with Inlog Optimizer. Its home page lacks any Terms of service or Privacy policy that would describe how the company uses your data and what the risks of using Inlog Optimizer are. This is important because a program that has access to your system could do a lot of harm if given too much power. Privacy policy, which usually includes contacts of the developers, could give you insight into whether Inlog Optimizer is trustworthy. But the lack of transparency gives me the impression that Inlog Optimizer isn’t even pretending to be legitimate.

Even when seeing it for the first time, the home website of Inlog Optimizer is already suspicious, if for no other reason than that it’s a PC optimizer. There is a reason why PC optimizers have such a bad reputation with software security nowadays: they’re barely needed anymore, so the vast majority of available tools are dishonest, fake, or otherwise harmful. Malware developers desperately try to convince people to install their programs by promising the world in their descriptions. What reason do they have? Here are a few:

• Selling their product. Some tools try to scare people by saying that their system has dozens or even hundreds of problems and that they need to buy the paid version to fix the problem.
• Hijacking your resources for their use. Miners (like PCBooster), spambots, clickers (like PC Regcleaners) can be disguised as or hidden in various computer programs that, once installed, will use your computer’s resources to work in the background.
• Advertising to you. Some seemingly innocent programs are actually adware, capable of hijacking your browser and showing you ads in and out of it. Inlog Optimizer displays an ad in its interface, too.
• Spying on you. Various trojans (such as Astaroth) don’t just smuggle malware on your computer, they also steal your credentials and other private information.

How to remove Inlog Optimizer

Inlog Optimizer can be uninstalled using the Control Panel. Like I said, if you did not install it on your own, then, probably, another program did that for you. It needs to be found before it installs more worthless, resource-hogging applications. If your antivirus program doesn’t find anything, you can try another, maybe more aggressive antivirus tool, like Spyhunter. A scan with Windows Defender Offline is also an option.

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How to remove Inlog Optimizer using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like Inlog Optimizer install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to Inlog Optimizer . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make Inlog Optimizer easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.