Anticare Removal
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Anticare has proven to be a dangerous threat to internet users worldwide through scaring users into paying for a software license that does nothing for them. Anticare, like any other typical rogue anti-malware, installs itself on users systems via Trojans that get downloaded from malicious websites. Once established on the user’s system, Anticare loads itself as a startup service and then proceeds to perform fake anti-malware scans on the computer. This leads to a myriad of fake reports that state that the computer is dangerously infected with viruses that don’t exist. This is emphasized by using fake warning pop-ups that appear every now and then to annoy the user. The aim of all this activity is to try and get the user to pay for the ‘full’ version of Anticare under the claim that the currently installed ‘trial’ version is insufficient to remove the detected ‘threats’. However, it is important to remember not to fall for this ploy as no version of Anticare is capable of cleaning out any computer system successfully.
As soon as you detect an instance of this rogue software on your computer, you should take steps to initiate Anticare removal. In order to delete Anticare, you must stop its processes, delete its files and folders and remove its registry entries.
File Removal Procedures
The first step in Anticare removal is the stopping of the following processes which are related to Anticare:
- anticare.exe
- avsrv.exe
- avSubEngine.exe
The next step you need to take in order to remove Anticare is to delete the following files and folders:
- %ProgramFiles%\Anticare\ACEngine.dll
- %ProgramFiles%\pclock\pclocklauncher.exe
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\ACEngine.dll
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\AntiCare.exe
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\partner.ini
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\Uninstall.exe
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\db\adsub.dat
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\db\avmon.dat
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\db\inter.dll
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\db\vsdb.dat
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\etc\acMon.exe
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\etc\acReg.exe
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\etc\avsrv.exe
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\etc\avSubEngine.exe
- C:\Program Files\Anticare\skin\default.avs
After the above steps have been completed, Anticare no longer resides on your hard disk.
Registry Removal Procedures
File deletion alone is not sufficient to ensure complete Anticare removal. To remove Anticare completely, you need to remove the following keys and settings from the Windows Registry as well:
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\AntiCareMain]
- DisplayName = “Anticare”
- UninstallString = “”%ProgramFiles%\Anticare\Uninstall.exe””
- DisplayIcon = “”%ProgramFiles%\Anticare\Uninstall.exe””
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PCLock]
- DisplayName = “PC��Ŵ��”
- UninstallString = “”%ProgramFiles%\PCLock\Uninstall.exe””
- DisplayIcon = “”%ProgramFiles%\PCLock\Uninstall.exe””
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\anticare]
- pid = “pclock”
- ver = “20100401?
- Install_Dir = “%ProgramFiles%\Anticare”
- reset = “20100607?
- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PCLock]
- pid = “singsingfile”
- ver = “20100520?
- Install_Dir = “%ProgramFiles%\PCLock”
- reset = “20100607?
- holddate = “20100614?
Once the registry has been cleaned out, your computer is safe from Anticare. However, in order to make sure of this fact, it is recommended to run a full computer scan using genuine antivirus software such as Spyware Doctor with Antivirus.
Conclusion
Manual Anticare removal is not the best way to go if you are an inexperienced computer user who is not properly aware of security measures that should be taken to protect systems, as any wrong move during Anticare removal could cause damage to the operating system. Inexperienced users are therefore advised to make use of a web-based virus scanning and cleaning service such as www.onlinecomputerrepair.org or legitimate antivirus software such as Spyware Doctor with Antivirus to remove Anticare.