Privacy Center is latest bogus security application successor of infamous Secret Service, Privacy Center rogues. Privacy Center is a pack of security tools, such as: Spyware scanner, Surfing protection, Cookies remover, Registry doctor, Firewall. But in reality neither of these tools is actually useful. Parasite is promoted via Trojan horses, fake online antimalware scanners and malware. Once inside and active, Privacy Center will be configured to start automatically every time you login Windows. While running Privacy Center will flood your system with fake security alerts appearing from your Windows Taskbar informing that security of your computer has been compromised. And trial version is able to protect your computer, and of course you must purchase licensed version in order to protect your data and privacy. But you must remember that Privacy Center is rogue application and in reality is absolutely useless and don’t worth a cent. We advise you to remove Privacy Center as soon as possible manually or using automatic removal tool.
Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Privacy Center manually:
It's possible to remove Privacy Center manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.
The files to be deleted:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Privacy Center.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Privacy Center
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Privacy Center\1 Privacy Center.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Privacy Center\3 Uninstall.lnk
c:\Program Files\Privacy Center Software
c:\Program Files\Privacy Center Software\Privacy Center
c:\Program Files\Privacy Center Software\Privacy Center\data.bin
c:\Program Files\Privacy Center Software\Privacy Center\license.txt
Remove registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Privacy Center
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Privacy Center
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Privacy Center"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Privacy Center
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Privacy Center"
Please be careful because manual removal of Privacy Center 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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