How to remove an boinc error

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Boinc.exe file information

The process known as BOINC client or ClimatePrediction.net client belongs to software BOINC client or BBC Climate Change Experiment or Gridfinity or CPDNBBC core client by Space Sciences Laboratory (www.ssl.berkeley.edu) or ClimatePrediction.net or Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley (www.ssl.berkeley.edu).

Description: boinc.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" or sometimes in a subfolder of C:\ or in a subfolder of C:\Windows\System32. Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 319,488 bytes (22% of all occurrences), 294,912 bytes and 15 more variants.
The program is not visible. It is not a Windows core file. The program listens for or sends data on open ports to a LAN or the Internet. You can uninstall this program in the control panel. boinc.exe is able to monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 43% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
If you encounter difficulties with boinc.exe, you can do the following:
1) completely remove BOINC or BBC Climate Change Experiment (Control Panel⇒Add/Remove programs)
2) go to the support area of the Berkeley website
3) search for an update on the vendor’s website.

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Important: Some malware camouflages itself as boinc.exe, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the boinc.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

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Part of SETI@home computing
Gabrijel (further information)

A software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources
Wizzkid007 (further information)

Help Software (like SETI@HOME)
Ragalm

BOINC Client program
Chris Peel (further information)

It is the gui of the boinc system
mobilemurdock (further information)

BOINC=Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing,programm/plattform die man zum berechnen von wissenschaftlichen projekten wie seti@home, climateprediction oder einstein@home braucht.
chris (further information)

BOINC Client program

BOINC = Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Volker

From Berkeley Univ. Replaced SETI at Home. BOINC can run other programs Rosetta for protien folding. If you don't know what it is, you do have a problem. You or someone with access to your compter should have installed it.
benszoko

Grid Utility from Berkeley
softsmyth (further information)

BOINC client, needed for running distributed computing projects using the BOINC infrastructure
Ruben (further information)

If it doesn't respond to Add/Remove Programs command, may be a Trojan, in which case it's been known to steal processing power. I have not heard of privacy violations involving BOINC, though there are unscrupulous or foolish people who try to increase their rankings in the BOINC community by tricking people into installing it under false pretenses. BOINC is meant to be a tool that facilitates support for research projects that need computer processing power. Search on Internet for 'BOINC' if you need more information.
Jason Goatcher (further information)

In simple English, boinc.exe is the driver for the World Community Grid. Anyone (that includes you) can join the Grid, allowing it to use the spare time and space on their computer to be used for humanitarian research. It doesn't come with Windows, so someone or something MUST have loaded it. If you haven't loaded it, be suspicious; if you have, good on you..
Gordon (further information)

Summary: Average user rating of boinc.exe: based on 20 votes with 13 reviews.

13 users think boinc.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 1 user think it's probably harmless. 5 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 1 user think boinc.exe is dangerous and recommend removing it. 1 user doesn't grade boinc.exe ("not sure about it").

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