Remove PC Privacy Cleaner (PCPrivacyCleaner)
A rogue antivirus which is often accompanied by other similar antivirus. Well if you have it in your system remove it as soon as possible as it will download so many similar programs that it will become a impossible to work on your computer. Some of the screenshots of PC Privacy Cleaner
Manual Removal Steps
1. Open task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and kill the process pcpc.exe
If you also having a process named PCPC_Setup_Free.exe running, end that too.
If you get a message like task manager has been disabled..., download a tool from here to open task manager.
2. Now go to C:\Program Files (assuming you have your windows in C drive) and delete the folder named PCPrivacyCleaner.
3. Next remove shortcuts of PC Privacy Cleaner from desktop, start menu and quick launch.
4. Empty Recycle Bin
Now we need to do some registry editing. Be care ful as wrongly doing this can lead to system instability
5. Go Start->Run-> type regedit and press enter
6. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\{65DE966D-11D1-4bb1-BF7E-B8A273514DAF}
and del the key {65DE966D-11D1-4bb1-BF7E-B8A273514DAF}
(See the pic after next step to know how to do it)
7. Now navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PCPrivacyCleaner
and delete the key PCPrivacyCleaner.
8. Now navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
locate and delete the string named PCPrivacyCleaner
9. Again navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PCPrivacyCleaner
And delete the key PCPrivacyCleaner
Your system is free from this rogue antivirus.
Because this usually is accompanied by other similar antiviruses be sure to check your pc.
NEVER CLICK YES A WARNING LIKE THIS ONE
Manual Removal Steps
1. Open task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) and kill the process pcpc.exe
If you also having a process named PCPC_Setup_Free.exe running, end that too.
If you get a message like task manager has been disabled..., download a tool from here to open task manager.
2. Now go to C:\Program Files (assuming you have your windows in C drive) and delete the folder named PCPrivacyCleaner.
3. Next remove shortcuts of PC Privacy Cleaner from desktop, start menu and quick launch.
4. Empty Recycle Bin
Now we need to do some registry editing. Be care ful as wrongly doing this can lead to system instability
5. Go Start->Run-> type regedit and press enter
6. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\{65DE966D-11D1-4bb1-BF7E-B8A273514DAF}
and del the key {65DE966D-11D1-4bb1-BF7E-B8A273514DAF}
(See the pic after next step to know how to do it)
7. Now navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PCPrivacyCleaner
and delete the key PCPrivacyCleaner.
8. Now navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
locate and delete the string named PCPrivacyCleaner
9. Again navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PCPrivacyCleaner
And delete the key PCPrivacyCleaner
Your system is free from this rogue antivirus.
Because this usually is accompanied by other similar antiviruses be sure to check your pc.
Written by magakos on July 27th, 2008 with 3 comments.
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