How to remove Privacyguard2010.com Hijacker?
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Privacyguard2010.com Hijacker Information:
Privacyguard2010.com is an “official” website that provides totally false information of a rogue utility called PrivacyGuard 2010 and convinces you to buy its useless license. You hit Privacyguard2010.com only when your machine has been contaminated by PrivacyGuard 2010. A Trojan which is responsible for its infiltration and the browser hijack first intrudes into your computer and then makes related changes to your system. When you just open your browsers or happen to click on its fake popups, you will find yourself on Privacyguard2010.com. On there, it will try to convince you to get a licensed copy of PrivacyGuard 2010 so as to defend against various kind of viruses. The truth is that PrivacyGuard 2010 can’t help in any protection for your PC. To completely get things fixed, you can follow our removal tutorial and remove PrivacyGuard 2010 and Privacyguard2010.com virus for good.
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Privacyguard2010.com Virus. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files.
The process you need to end:
PrivacyGuard2010.exe
The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “PrivacyGuard2010.exe”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Protection
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
EnableLUA = 0x00000000
ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin = 0x00000000
ConsentPromptBehaviorUser = 0x00000000
The files you need to delete:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\PrivacyGuard 2010.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PrivacyGuard 2010\
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PrivacyGuard 2010\PrivacyGuard 2010.lnk
c:\Program Files\PC\
c:\Program Files\PC\PrivacyGuard 2010\
c:\Program Files\PC\PrivacyGuard 2010\1.ico
c:\Program Files\PC\PrivacyGuard 2010\PrivacyGuard2010.exe
c:\WINDOWS\Tasks\At1.job
Please, be aware that manual removal of Privacyguard2010.com Virus is a cumbersome task and can not always ensure complete removal of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, lack of the required skills and even the slightest deviation from the instructions may lead to irreparable system damage. That’s why it’s strongly recommended automatic removal of Privacyguard2010.com Virus, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Privacyguard2010.com Virus Removal:
1. Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 Key before Windows launches. Use the arrow keys to select the “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then hit ENTER Key to continue.
2. Download Privacyguard2010.com Virus Remover, install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Privacyguard2010.com Virus Remover fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Privacyguard2010.com Virus Remover can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Privacyguard2010.com Virus Remover, you can download this correction script, unzip it and then double click to run it. It will correct your registry settings that the virus has modified. Then double click the program and finish the installation.
3. After the Online Scan finishes, click “Details” for the malware detected to make sure that your important data are not infected and removed. Ignore or select the scan result and click “Remove” to remove the threats. Reboot your computer and let Privacyguard2010.com Virus Remover delete all detected virus.
4. Click to repair your corrupted registry
Why should you need to repair the registry?
As we all know, virus and Trojans modify and destroy system registry and make the computer malfunction so that the computer will not perform normally. Even if the virus and Trojans are removed, the registry is still destroyed or modified, so the computer still has problems. That’s the very reason why you need to repair the registry. At the meanwhile, some virus and Trojans leave some DLL files in the registry and this will cause strange DLL errors and affect the computer performance.
To make your computer run as perfectly as before or much faster than before:
1. Download and install Multi-Awarded Registry Tool.
2. Run a full scan of your registry.
3. Click “Repair Problems” and repair all errors detected.
After these 3 easy steps, your computer will run much faster than before within minutes!
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