How to remove Live PC Care (Uninstall instructions)

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How to remove Live PC Care (Uninstall instructions)

Live PC Care is a rogue antispyware program. It is a clone of Windows Enterprise Defender, which is also rogue antispyware application. The rogue spreads mostly with the help of fake online malware scanners.

Once downloaded and installed, Live PC Care configures itself to run automatically and creates a lot of harmless files with random names in %UserProfile%\Recent folder, which later during the scan will be detected as worms, trojans and viruses. Of course, the scan results are false, because Live PC Care identifies harmless files as dangerous infections. So, you may easily ignore all that the rogue shows you!

When running, Live PC Care will flood your computer with warnings, fake security alert and notifications from Windows task bar. The fake alerts state:

System alert!
malicious applications, which may contains Trojans, were found
on your computer and are to be removed immediately. Click
here to remove these potentially harmful items using Live PC
Care.

System alert!
Potentially harmful programs have been detected in your
system and need to be dealt with immediately. Click here to
remove them using Live PC Care.

System alert!
Live PC Care has detected potentially harmful software in
your system. It is strongly recommended that you register
Live PC Care to remove all found threats immediately.

Warning
Warning! Virus detected
Threat detected: Virus.BAT.Gray.705

What is more, Live PC Care will block Task Manager and legitimate antivirus and antispyware programs (Kaspersky Antivirus, DrWeb, AdAware, McAfee, Norton AV, etc) and hijack Internet Explorer so that it randomly shows a warning page when you browsing the Internet. The title of the page is “There is a problem with this websites`s secuirty. Possible spyware threat detected”. However, all of these alerts and warnings are fake and like scan false results should be ignored!

As you can see, this program is a scam and should be removed from the system upon detection. Please follow the guidelines below to remove Live PC Care and any associated malware from your computer for free.

More screen shoots of Live PC Care

Symptoms in a HijackThis Log

O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [Live PC Care] “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\17c1f\LPf9a.exe” /s /d

Use the following instructions to remove Live PC Care (Uninstall instructions)

Download MalwareBytes Anti-malware (MBAM). Close all programs and Windows on your computer.

Double Click mbam-setup.exe to install the application. When the installation begins, keep following the prompts in order to continue with the installation process. Do not make any changes to default settings and when the program has finished installing, make sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, then click Finish.

If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.

Once the program has loaded you will see window similar to the one below.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Window

Select Perform Quick Scan, then click Scan, it will start scanning your computer for Live PC Care infection. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.

When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. You will see a list of infected items similar as shown below. Note: list of infected items may be different than what is shown in the image below.

Malwarebytes Anti-malware, list of infected items

Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected for start Live PC Care removal process. When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad and you may be prompted to Restart.

Note: if you need help with the instructions, then post your questions in our Spyware Removal forum.

Live PC Care creates the following files and folders

%UserProfile%\Application Data\Live PC Care
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\LPCGSys
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\17c1f\LPf9a.exe
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Live PC Care\Instructions.ini
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\LPCGSys\lpcg.cfg
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Live PC Care.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\Live PC Care.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Live PC Care.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Live PC Care.lnk

Live PC Care creates the following registry keys and values

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\live pc care

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December 3, 2009 on 2:02 pm | In Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo | 57 Comments |

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i can’t even get antivir to remove it. i tried everything i can but it still wont’t remove. i did the malware antivirus but it still won’t do it.

Comment by debbie — December 6, 2009 #
debbie, open a new topic in our Spyware removal forum. I will help you.

Comment by Patrik — December 6, 2009 #
thanks a lot for ur shared. i can remove it.

Comment by yayan — January 18, 2010 #
Thanks, everyone on this post did the job a treat.

Comment by Dave — January 18, 2010 #
I used Malware and it removed Live PC Care. Thanks for sharing.

Comment by Dom — January 18, 2010 #
Thank you so much! I used it and it works.!

Comment by Bere — January 20, 2010 #
Thank You People very much.. These instructions removed that piece of shit live pc care from my system.. utmost respect to those who helped!!! peace Abe

Comment by abe — January 21, 2010 #
hey thanks a lot for sharing got dat thing out of my comp

Comment by tanvi — January 22, 2010 #
Thank you so much… it worked for me!
Just got that piece of crap out of my PC.

Comment by someone — January 22, 2010 #
Thank you for sharing. Finally removed it with Malwarebytes. It works great.

Comment by ariffin74 — January 23, 2010 #
thanks it was very useful to me…

Comment by me — January 23, 2010 #
Thank you so much for this info, much appreciated! was actually gonna buy the shit! lol! Thanks again for the help

Comment by ME — January 23, 2010 #
it really did the job, it’s great thanks to this i was able to remove that f-ing live pc care

Comment by ishiroyuka — January 24, 2010 #
thank you so much for the tip. that thing was driving me crazy. couldnt download the malware at first but did a little re-arranging on my computer and it worked. very much appreciated

Comment by nickie — January 24, 2010 #
I WANT TO REMOVE THE PC LIVE CARE VIRUS.

IS THERE A CHARGE TO USE YOUR MALWAREBYTES PROGRAM? ARE YOU JUST OFFERING TO SCAN IT BUT NOT FIX IT?
OR SCAN IT THEN REMOVE IT FOR A CHARGE?

WHAT IS THE CHARGE FOR THE REMOVAL OF THE ITEMS (VIRUS)??

Comment by jewdee — January 24, 2010 #
thanks so much, was very worried about my pc! worked a treat and 100% genuine, thank you.

Comment by salyyy — January 24, 2010 #
im having so much trouble with this, i cant even get your software to run, and when i am offline this thing is constantly trying to connect to the internet, somebody help me please

Comment by mark — January 25, 2010 #
help me get this off my laptop PLEASE!!!! it constantly tries to connect, it wont let me start up the program to remove it, i cant do anything somebody help me fix this please

Comment by mark — January 25, 2010 #
jewdee, Malwarebytes Anti-malware is free for use.

Comment by Patrik — January 25, 2010 #
mark. try run Malwarebytes in the Safe mode.

Comment by Patrik — January 25, 2010 #
how can i removed this live pc?please help….

Comment by joy — January 27, 2010 #
i need someone to help me please…….. i begging evry one…

Comment by joy — January 27, 2010 #
live pc care is still in my computer! i downloaded and ran the spyware scan but its still there so i then purchased the program and its still there!!!HELP

Comment by Tracy — January 27, 2010 #
joy and Tracy, open a new topic in our Spyware removal forum.

Comment by Patrik — January 27, 2010 #
Thank you! I successfuly cleaned my PC with this software and my Security system is back now!

Comment by HungarianKP — January 27, 2010 #
thanks a lot for your help in removing tat fucking virus out of my PC

Comment by MUthupandi — January 29, 2010 #
good job! thank you!

Comment by Unmac — January 30, 2010 #
Yesterday I installed and ran it on my coworker’s pc and it worked perfectly. It got rid of the “live pc care” virus. (I think that was the exact name) I am very impressed. But today my other coworker’s pc won’t let it run at all and no icons show up on the desktop. This is not a new problem. I’ve downloaded it twice. I went to Programs, the Quick Launch, even tried to run it from a saved copy on my flashdrive and I can’t get it to run any which way. I even tried to outsmart the pc by right clicking on the malwarebytes program and scanning it with malwarebytes, but that didn’t work either. Can anyone help me?

Comment by jose — February 2, 2010 #
Brilliant. Thanks!

Comment by bob hoskins — February 2, 2010 #
thanks soo much for your help. I was going crazy trying to remove this virus.

Comment by Elle — February 2, 2010 #
jose, try rename installed of MBAM before running.

Comment by Patrik — February 3, 2010 #
is this legit?

Comment by gab — February 3, 2010 #
gab, what ?
Malwarebytes Anti-malware is a good malware remover.

Comment by Patrik — February 3, 2010 #
Hey this worked well… I was so frustrated that I could not get into task manager to stop the processes. This was a great solution. Thanks for your help.

Also, to people in doubt, this is a legit program. You can check it out at cnet if you have any doubts.

Comment by Andrew — February 4, 2010 #
Excellent !!!! The instructions were easy to follow and was able to uninstall LIVE PC CARE. I tried everything to find the software and remove it from my PC, but all attempts were unsuccessful.
MUCH THANKS FOR YOUR HELP

J Book

Comment by J BOOK — February 5, 2010 #
Hi
I did the full scan should i re-start?
thx

Comment by Tasha — February 5, 2010 #
Hi
Now completed download, seems to have gone but when trying to install MACfee it now comes up with a message saying that can not install as PC guard Anti Virus is still installed??? Cannot locate to uninstall? Please help…

Comment by Tasha — February 5, 2010 #
i hawe live oc care porgram or antivivrus or whatever it is and i realu dont knowe haw to uninstal that because there no options uninstal an i try manyaly to delite that but i dont have lucky
sory if my english i bad, i relly need some help
thanks

Comment by ivana — February 5, 2010 #
sori live pc care

Comment by ivana — February 5, 2010 #
ivana, you need download and install Malwarebytes Anti-malware. Run it and perform a scan.

Comment by Patrik — February 6, 2010 #
Hi, I downloaded the program but after it said it would perform the scan nothing happened…what do I do? Any help would be appreciated!

Comment by Sammy — February 6, 2010 #
And the spyware doctor won’t launch when I click on it…

Comment by Sammy — February 6, 2010 #
Sammy, if Malwarebytes Anti-malware does not help you, then ask for help in our Spyware removal forum.

Comment by Patrik — February 7, 2010 #
thnks for this that f****ing live pc care pss me off

Comment by Jan — February 7, 2010 #
Thanks for the information and solution.

Comment by Rajiv — February 7, 2010 #
Thanks, removed live pc care but my windows security centre still hase live pc care as a firewall and virus protection, how can i get rid of this, please help, have ASO3 and it wont let any securty features activate properly

Comment by Adele — February 9, 2010 #
Hi, downloaded, full scan and removed, but log was not very long, and when clicked on “My Computer”, Live PC returns, so not completely removed. Shall I run in Safe Mode and try again? Thanks!

Comment by Lucie — February 9, 2010 #
I have a theory that McAFee owns, or originated Live PC Care. Does anyone know who is behind Live PC Care?

Comment by Madge — February 9, 2010 #
During few days the Live Pc was driving me nuts, yesterday I downloaded your program and it got rid of all the malware from my laptop. Wanted to thank you guys for the great job and for your help.

Comment by Nathalie — February 10, 2010 #
Lucie, yes try run it in Safe mode. If the trick does not help you, then ask for help in our Spyware removal forum.

Comment by Patrik — February 10, 2010 #
to fix the Secureity center do this
and allow mcaffe to install run this from the command prompt

net stop winmgmt
cd /d %windir%\system32\wbem
ren repository repository.old
net start winmgmt

Comment by Mike — February 13, 2010 #
Works like magic. Sooo easy to use. Thanx!

Comment by tube — February 26, 2010 #
Had trouble trying to get it to run. I am using Vista home 64 bit. Saved to desktop, and then had to right click the icon and run as administrator. Got the program to run that way. Thanks for the help on getting rid of this psychotic malware. Was ready to throw my computer across the room!!!

Comment by Scott — March 16, 2010 #
It worked like a charm! So glad to have Live PC Care off my computer…Thanks so much for this program!!!

Comment by Kari — March 22, 2010 #
Lucie, the virus puts an icon on your desktop that looks like the MY Computer icon, but it is actually the virus.. delete the icon..

the mbam did it for me.. for the most part. my internet explorer is stilll corrupt. can’t access any search engines [yahoo, google, etc] can’t delete IE folder to reload the program.. it states i need permission [when i'm logged in as administrator]

anybody can help?

Comment by Dulsey — April 16, 2010 #
Dulsey, try update Malwarebytes and scan once again. If it does not help, then start a new topic in our Spyware removal forum.

Comment by Patrik — April 17, 2010 #
Why dont you try Unlocker. type it in Internet explorer or something. and download it. and go the the Live PC Care and right click on it and click unlocker and delete it. it will allow you to pass the Warnign message to stop you from deleting it. so all u have to do it unlock it and delete! and off it goes

Comment by Tippeefewt — May 3, 2010 #