Is your computer safe? One day, when you are using the computer, a program named PC Power Speed pops up and says it has detected a program in your computer. How can this happen?
PC Power Speed is a legit program but it can be hijacked by the hijacker. Once it is hijacked by the virus maker. The hijacker may use the name of PC Power Speed to cheat you. If you do not know anything about it. You may become one of the victims due to the hijackers.
When PC Power Speed is hijacked by the virus maker. It is not the original PC Power Speed. It becomes a fake anti-virus program, it is same to some fake programs. This program can infect your computer when you are under the protection of the anti-virus program. It scares you by showing a System vulnerability is detected, then it will claim that you should make full scan to your computer, if you choose to scan by this fake program, a lot of System vulnerabilities, viruses and Trojans will be found by this program. Then it will show that your computer is in high-risk, if you can not fix it quickly, these problems will do great damage to your computer. However, when you choose to fix them by this program, you will see a window that you need to activate it before it can fix your computer. Please remember, this is the way virus maker cheats your money and this is not the real PC Power Speed. If you decide to pay them, this virus can be activated completely, this fake program will start to download viruses and Trojans from the infected webpage, and this fake program can forbidden the functions of your real anti-virus. If you can not remove it completely, this virus can update to protect itself, this tricky virus can change its name. If you haven’t sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries, it may lead to mistakes damaging your system.
It is different from the real PC Power Speed. The fake PC Power Speed, which is hijacked by the virus maker cheats you by showing a lot of fake warning in your infected computer, it will scare you so that you choose to trust it can help your computer get out of this “terrible” situation. If you want to fix all the problems in your computer, you need to activate this fake program so that it can work completely. When you choose to pay to activate it, this virus will start to do damage to your system completely. Firstly, It will start to download viruses and Trojans to your infected computer from the Virus’ webpage, then you will find that your computer is running slowly than before, this virus will slow down the speed of your computer and even can forbidden Anti-virus program. Secondly, this fake program can track your action on this computer to get your information and data, such as the password of the important account. Sometimes this virus may mess up your system data and files and stop some functions in your infected computer. Thirdly, this virus can download Ransomware to lock your computer. If you just let it stay in your infected computer, it may freeze your system at all. So next time when you find this fake anti-virus program in your computer, do not hesitate, remove this virus completely from your infected computer.
The following instructions require certain levels of computer skills. If you’re not sure how to delete this program, please start a live chat with YooCare experts now.
The Screen Shot of the PC Power Speed
Steps to Manually PC Power Speed
1. Reboot your infected computer and keep pressing F8 key on your keyboard and next use the arrow keys to select “Safe Mode with Networking” and press E/Enter;
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del at the same time or right click on the Task Bar to open the Windows Task Manager; then scroll down to End processes related to [PC Power Speed].exe;
3. Open Control Panel from Start menu; then find Folder Options and under View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then click OK;
4. Press Windows+R keys to open the Run window and then type in regedit to open Registry Editor.
5: Find out and delete all these associating files and registry entries as below:
Go to %userprofile%appdatalocaltemp
The virus can have names other than “random.exe” but it should look like it doesn’t belong and should have a create date/time the same as a .class file if you sort by file mod/create time you’ll find it.
%AllUsersProfile%Application Data.dll
%AllUsersProfile%Application Data.exe(rnd)
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun “[rnd].exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionSettings “net
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun “[rnd].exe”
In summary, this fake anti-virus program cheats victims by acting the real anti-virus program, if you don’t know any about this fake program, you may be fooled by this big virus. Please remember, The real PC Power Speed will not do damage to your system. But the fake one that is hijacked by the virus maker has nothing good to your computer, if you regard it as the real anti-virus program, your computer will be in a dangerous place by this fake program. This fake program will create a lot of unexcited problem. That is why this virus can scare so many victims, what is more, when you decide to trust this fake program, your computer may face a difficult situation. Please do not fooled by this fake program, you need to remember that this is a not a real anti-virus program and you can not trust it at all and this is not the real PC Power Speed. What it can do is to do damage to your computer and cheat your money. The most dangerous thing is that this virus can track your actions online and send it to the virus maker, then the hijacks can steal your personal information and data from the infected computer. Next time, when you discover that your computer in infected by this virus, please remove it completely.
If you’re not sure how to delete this program, please start a live chat with YooCare experts now.
Published by & last updated on June 1, 2013 6:05 pm
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