Feb 20, 2009

Remove Privacy Components - Privacy Components Removal Instructions

Privacy Components is new rogue program that pretends to be all-in-one security application. Usually parasite is promoted through the use of Trojan horses delivered by a misleading website called Porn Tube. This Trojans are instilled while watching adult videos. When Trojan horse is installed it will automatically download and install Privacy Components on your computer.
In fact Privacy Components is collection of useless tools such as Registry Doctor,
System Monitor, Memory wizard, Surf Protector, Secure channel.
When Privacy Components get in touch with your system it will generate fake security alerts, perform system scan and list falsified scan result in order to trick you into purchasing licensed version.
Remove Privacy Components as soon as possible manually or using automatic removal tool.

Type: Rogue Optimization Software
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Privacy Components manually:
It's possible to remove Privacy Components manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.

The files to be deleted:

agent.exe
pc.exe
softjopa[1].exe
sp.dll
swapdm.dll


Remove registry entries:

Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{D032570A-5F63-4812-A094-87D007C23012}
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Privacy components
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\agent.exe
Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs\
Privacy components


Please be careful because manual removal of Privacy Components may seriously damage operational system and sensitive data. Also there is a big possibility of incomplete removal, because some files could be hidden and program could re-install itself after you delete files and registry entries. So we strongly recommend you to use automatical removal tool.

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