How to remove Privacy Guard Pro

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 7:52 am

Privacy Guard Pro description

Privacy Guard Pro (a.k.a. PrivacyGuard Pro 2.0) is a successor of recent scam named Privacy Protection Suite. Trust neither of these tools!

PrivacyGuard Pro won’t protect your privacy or your computer simply because it is not an anti-spyware. PrivacyGuardPro is typical online scam. It is presented as it was a useful program in order to attract people. If installed, Privacy GuardPro loads pop-ups that are very similar to warnings usually loaded by security tools. This way the malware tricks people into taking the Privacy Guard Pro as a real anti-spyware. Avoid installing PrivacyGuard Pro and under no circumstances pay for the program! Privacy Guard Pro is a scam and a computer parasite.

PrivacyGuardPro 2.0 is dangerous for a computer. It is installed with help of trojans and other malwares. It makes a system freeze and crash. Privacy Guard Pro generates large amounts of annoying pop-ups and it may also hijack a web browser.

Get rid of Privacy Guard Pro

Privacy Guard Pro is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove Privacy Guard Pro

To remove Privacy Guard Pro spyware you must block Privacy Guard Pro sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other Privacy Guard Pro files and registry utility. Follow the Privacy Guard Pro detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove Privacy Guard Pro by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden Privacy Guard Pro files, running processes and registries in your computer, so Privacy Guard Pro may recreate all other files after reboot.

Privacy Guard Pro manual removal instructions

Stop and remove Privacy Guard Pro processes:
PrivacyGuard.exe Read more how to kill Privacy Guard Pro processes

Locate and delete Privacy Guard Pro registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PrivacyGuard\PrivacyGuard
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PrivacyGuardPro, Inc.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PrivacyGuardPro, Inc.\PrivacyGuardPro
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MimarSinan\InstallAware
Read more how to delete Privacy Guard Pro registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Privacy Guard Pro

Search and unregister Privacy Guard Pro DLL libraries:
SharpZipLib.dll
PrivacyGuard.Common.dll
Infralution.Common.dll
Infralution.Controls.dll
Infralution.Controls.VirtualTree.dll
Read more how to unregister Privacy Guard Pro DLL files

Detect and delete other Privacy Guard Pro files:
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\Infralution.Common.dll
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\Infralution.Controls.dll
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\Infralution.Controls.VirtualTree.dll
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\PrivacyGuard.Common.dll
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\PrivacyGuard.exe
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\SharpZipLib.dll
c:\Program Files\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\uninstall.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\PrivacyGuard PRO.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\PrivacyGuard RPO.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PrivacyGuard PRO 2.0\Uninstall PrivacyGuard PRO.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\activate.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\buynow.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\filepattern.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\help.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\home.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\lastscan.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\mailto.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\product.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\registered.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\settings.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\uninstall.dat
%UserProfile%\Application Data\PrivacyGuard\update.dat
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}\instance.dat
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}\mia.lib
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}\PrivacyGuardProSetup.dat
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}\PrivacyGuardProSetup.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}\PrivacyGuardProSetup.msi
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}\PrivacyGuardProSetup.par
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\{BCCFBD3F-FE2F-40BA-9DCD-5833657B4316}\PrivacyGuardProSetup.res

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track Privacy Guard Pro and automaticaly remove Privacy Guard Pro processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.


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