Your PC Protector

Your PC Protector is a virus and rogue security program that comes from the family as the harmful Windows Police Pro. Using a Trojan and fake security website, Your PC Protector can easily spread over the Internet by deceiving people when it tries to pretend as a legit anti-virus application. Your PC Protector rogue was also promoted on their own websites carrying the slogan “Helps Protects your PC.” Being in the lists of rogue security programs, Your PC Protector is sure to have dishonest behavior inside the affected computer. It alarms uses of possible computer threats even though it is clean and free from any virus. Your PC Protector virus scan will also show dozens of infected files that does not really exists on the computer. To perform all of these, Your PC Protector will alter your system settings and registry so that it will run automatically when Windows is started. Your PC Protector can block Internet access and disable any security related programs installed. Some functionalities of Windows, including task manager, registry editor and control panel will be left unusable to prevent manual removal of Your PC Protector.

What are the Symptoms of Your PC Protector Infection?

A virus scan will display fake results and convince you to purchase the Your PC Protector activation code.

It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:

• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Your PC Protector
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Uninstall\Your PC Protector
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run “Your PC Protector”
• [HKEY_USERS\S-1-(Varies)\Software\Your PC Protector]
• [HKEY_USERS\S-1-(Varies)\Software\Your PC Protector\Your PC Protector]
• [HKEY_USERS\S-1-(Varies)\Software\Your PC Protector\Your PC Protector\Registration]
• [HKEY_USERS\S-1-(Varies)\Software\Your PC Protector\Your PC Protector\setdata]
• [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{77DC0Baa-3235-4ba9-8BE8-aa9EB678FA02}\InprocServer32\] Default=”%ProgramFiles%\adc32.dll
• [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\AdbUpd\
  "ImagePath"= "%ProgramFiles%\svchost.exe"
  "DisplayName"= "Adobe Update Service"
• [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AdbUpd\]
  “ImagePath”= “%ProgramFiles%\svchost.exe”
  “DisplayName”=”Adobe Update Service

“Your PC Protector” threat will drop the following malicious files:

• %Program Files\Your PC Protector\PC_PROTECT[1].EXE
• %Program Files\Your PC Protector\YOUR PC PROTECTOR.EXE.001
• %Program Files\Your PC Protector\WPP.EXE
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\Your PC Protector.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Your PC Protector
• %ProgramFiles%\adc32.dll 
• %ProgramFiles%\alggui.exe
• %ProgramFiles%\svchost.exe
• %ProgramFiles% \Your PC Protector\Your PC Protector.exe

How to Remove Your PC Protector Manually

1. Restart your computer in SafeMode
- After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
- From the selections, Select SafeMode

2. Remove Registry entries that the threat added. You MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
- Click Start > Run
- Type in the field, regedit
- Navigate and look for the registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary

3. Delete malicious files that the threat added:
- Base on the given location above, browse and delete the file
- If no location is given, click Start>Search> and search for the files.
- If cannot be deleted, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access Task Manager, see if the file is running in the process. If it is, select the file and click End Process. Perform file delete again.

4. Scan computer with Antivirus Program
- Update antivirus program
- Scan computer and delete all detected threats.

Automatic Removal of “Your PC Protector”

1. Download and run MalwareBytes AntiMalware to remove “Your PC Protector”