Remove PC Scout - PC Scout Removal Information

PC Scout is a creation of hackers who produced Active Security and Core Guard Antivirus 2009. Though it is brand new, PC Scout does not have a lot of differences in work from its predecessors. The main strategy for all rogue anti-spyware application is tricking you into buying absolutely worthless products. PC Scout is trying to create conditions for it’s save work by getting rid of all other security software on your computer. When being installed, PC Scout will run a fake scan of your OS and each scan will notify you about numerous threats inside your PC. However, PC Scout will give you the possibility to fight those threats only after you have purchase the registered license from the program’s web-site. Do not be disappointed and scared because all of those threats do not even exist and are harmless. Unfortunately, even after you have purchase the license all your troubles will not disappear. Furthermore, they might even double. While you are using your computer, PC Scout will spread tons of annoying notifications about license necessarity all over your work windows. Everything is made to make you trust PC Scout and to influence the user into giving your money to hackers, even though you don’t get any profits from that. After some time, PC Scout is going to download Trojans and that is the time when real problems begin. Everything is leading to loosing of all private documents and will cut down your PC life time. That is why we highly recommend you to remove PC Scout and all of its products out of your computer until it is not too late.

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown
Threat Level: Critical
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PC Scout Automatical Removal Tool

How to remove PC Scout manually:

It's possible to remove PC Scout 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\PC Scout Support.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\PC Scout.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC Scout
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC Scout\PC Scout Support.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC Scout\PC Scout.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC Scout\Uninstall PC Scout.lnk
c:\Program Files\PC Scout
c:\Program Files\PC Scout\core.cga
c:\Program Files\PC Scout\CoreExt.dll
c:\Program Files\PC Scout\help.ico
c:\Program Files\PC Scout\pcscout.exe
c:\Program Files\PC Scout\Uninstall.exe

Remove registry entries:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{5E2121EE-0300-11D4-8D3B-444553540000}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PC Scout
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PC Scout
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "PC Scout"

Please be careful because manual removal of PC Scout 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.