What is PC Purifier?

PC Purifier is a badware and potentially unwanted program, that claims to improve your computer’s performance by optimizing your system and fixing registry issues. Though it will demand payment after scanning your system in order to “help” you with your system’s issues, and it will also force you to contact them through their tech support call center: “Live help available 24*7: (844) 763-5836“. Nevertheless, it’s not true, probably there is nothing wrong with your computer, they are not going to help you, so don’t call and pay to these people. The only and one purpose of such applications is to earn easy money without doing any good to you. Completely opposite, PC Purifier will corrupt your computer’s work.

PC Purifier will set search engine and homepage of your web browser to their own. Moreover, this badware is tracking your personal data like IP address, browser activity history, searching results, passwords, logins and other information concerning your activity in web browser. This data could be shared with third-party companies and misused to generate revenue, it can also cause identity theft. Excessive advertising, regular redirects to potentially harmful domains, warnings/ads pop-ups – all these problems are caused by PC Purifier. These reasons are leading us to a very simple conclusion – we should remove PC Purifier badware.

How PC Purifier gets on your PC?

PC Purifier is usually accompanied with other free software that you download from the internet. It’s pretty much frequent that the user himself allowed this malware on their computer. But some applications do not appropriately disclose that some other software will also be installed. That’s the most common case of getting PC Purifier on your computer. Next time try to be more careful and always choose the option of advanced or custom install.

How to remove PC Purifier from your computer?

To uninstall PC Purifier remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and registry keys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have PC Purifier in their database. You can try to use them for removing PC Purifier.

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Alternative Solution:

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You can try both of these products to remove PC Purifier- can clean up leftover items after removal.

Or uninstall PC Purifier manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find PC Purifier.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find PC Purifier and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find PC Purifier, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate PC Purifier and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

PC Purifier won’t uninstall

There are certain cases, when users cannot uninstall PC Purifier normally, using standard Windows features in Control Panel. When users click Uninstall button they see message: “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall PC Purifier. Please, contact your system administrator.” This happens because some process of PC Purifier prevent attempts to uninstall it. In order to uninstall it, use Safe Mode:

For Windows XP, Vista, 7

1. Turn off your computer;
2. Turn it on and immediately start typing F8 button;
3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu;
4. Choose Safe Mode with arrow buttons;
5. In Safe Mode go to Control Panel and Uninstall a program and remove “PC Purifier”.

For Windows 8/8.1 and 10

1. Press the Win+R keys, type msconfig in box and press Enter;
2. Switch to Boot tab, and click on Safe Boot check box;
3. Choose the type of Safe Mode: Minimal or Network;
4. Click OK and restart your PC;
5. In Safe Mode go to Control Panel and Uninstall a program and remove “PC Purifier”.

Remove following registry entries:

Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Value: PC Purifier
Data: “C:\Program Files\PC Purifier\PCPurifier.exe” /autostart=1

Then remove following files:

PCPurifier.exe
PCPurifier.dll

And following folders

C:\Program Files\PC Purifier

Information provided by: Alexey Abalmasov