Bridlebuddles Service

Next, go to your desktop and open a Run box by holding together the Start and R keys from the keyboard. Type appwiz.cpl in the Run box and click OK.

The Control Panel window should open on the screen immediately. Once in it, look for programs and entries that look suspicious or are unfamiliar to you. Google them if needed and then Uninstall the questionable ones. If you get a prompt like the one on the image below,  when you try to uninstall a given entry make sure that you choose the NO button:

*Source of claim SH can remove it.

After you clean the Control Panel from any Trojan-related entries, type msconfig in the windows search field and press the enter key from the keyboard. This will open the System Configuration window:

Click on the Startup tab and carefully check the entries with checkmarks. If you detect an entry with “Unknown” Manufacturer, or an entry that looks suspicious, remove its checkmark.

Attention! In case you suspect that your computer is hacked, or a bigger threat (like ransomware) has compromised it, do the following:

Press the Start and R keys from the keyboard and type the following command in the Run box that pops up:

notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts

The Hosts file on your computer will open. If the system is hacked, you will see some strange IPs under Localhost: 

We advise you to write to us in the comments in case you detect IPs like the ones in the image above under Localhost of your Hosts file.

The last step of this guide contains instructions on how to detect and remove the Bridlebuddles-related entries from your Registry. The quickest way is to open the Registry Editor (type Regedit in the windows search field and hit the Enter) and opening a Find box (press CTRL+F keys from the keyboard). Type the name of the Trojan in the Find box, click on Find Next, and delete all the results. Repeat the search as many times as needed until there are no more results with this name.

After that, go manually to the directories written below and delete/uninstall them:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Random Directory
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run/Random
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/Random

If after you complete the instructions Bridlebuddles still has not been fully removed, don’t leave the things halfway. Use the professional removal tool that we recommend and our free online virus scanner to check your system for hidden malicious files. 

Also, don’t hesitate to share with us any questions and concerns in the comments below! We will do our best to answer them all.

Additional information about Bridlebuddles:

Bridlebuddlesservice is launched from the bridlebuddlesservice.exe executable and, at first, you may not even think that it is unwanted software because it might promise you different rewards for allowing it to use your computer for its mining activities. In addition, in most cases, the PUP would operate only when your computer is idle (when you are not using it) so that your work won’t get disrupted by cryptocurrency mining. That said, it’s still possible that this program becomes more aggressive and tries to mine even when you are working on the computer. Furthermore, even if Bridlebuddlesservice isn’t directly interrupting you, it is still making money through your computer while giving you little to nothing in return. In addition, as we already mentioned, many users report having difficulties deleting this PUP which further confirms that there might be more to it than initially meets the eye and not in a good sense. A legitimate program wouldn’t try to so firmly establish a foothold inside one’s system and stay there in spite of the user’s attempts to remove it.

If you are lucky, you may be able to uninstall this software like you would uninstall a regular legitimate program but we suspect that things may not be that easy. Your antivirus may not detect the bridlebuddlesservice.exe file as malware or as something unwanted and this could make its removal more difficult because you won’t be helped by the antivirus. In that case, you can use the instructions from the current page and/or the suggested specialized removal software linked below that has been tested against PUPs like Briddlebuddlesservice and is capable of deleting them. Note that deleting the bridlebuddlesservice.exe file will not rid you of the PUP itself but it is still important to not interact with the executable to avoid launching the unwanted software (if it hasn’t already been activated).

Last but not least, it’s worth noting that aggressive ads, pop-ups, and banners may start showing up on your screen especially when you are browsing the web if Bridlebuddles is in your system which could, in turn, lead to a number of safety issues with your computer.

In most cases, the Bridlebuddles tool uses fake positives as means of scaring the users and making them think that their computer has been infected by some malicious program or that there are issues in the system that need to be solved. However, as we said, such warnings are likely to be exaggerated or outright false – you may have no issues in your PC and the Bridlebuddles app may still tell you that there are things that need fixing.

Normally, once you install this app on your computer, it will run a scan of your system that will supposedly determine if there’s anything wrong with your machine. After the scan ends, even if there are no problems in the system, the unwanted software would still probably tell you that something in your machine needs to be fixed and then it will prompt you to buy a Product Key that would supposedly allow you to use the full set of features that the program offers. Since, however, most of the security reports regarding Bridlebuddles state that this app actually gives false positives, there’s probably no need to purchase anything in attempts to fix issues in your system that are likely non-existent, to begin with. Instead, it’s better to use the guide we’ve prepared for you and with its help remove the potentially unwanted optimization tool so that it doesn’t bother you anymore. 

The Bridlebuddles Virus

It’s possible that you may see some people on the Internet refer to Bridlebuddles as a virus or as malware and the reason behind this is the obscure and rather sketchy nature of this app. The truth, however, is different – this piece of software isn’t related to any malware category like PUPs, Ransomware, and other malicious types of software.

Bridlebuddles is simply a software tool with questionable functionality that may use some obscure methods of making more users pay for its full version. We cannot comment on if or how effective or helpful the full version of this tool may be but the very fact that it may use false positives in order to get more users to buy its Product key should be enough of a reason for you or any other user to uninstall this app from their computer. As we already said, in case you need help with the removal of this program, you can use the instructions available on this page.