Posted on Tuesday, 8th December 2009 by Bob

livepccareLive PC Care, it sounds so helpful and caring, doesn’t it? As if personified it would be a little butler in a shiny black tuxedo cleaning out the viruses and malware from your computer. Unfortunately, your dear Alfred the butler is a fox in sheep’s clothing. Live PC Care will not protect you, in fact it will destroy your computer if given the chance! Live PC Care is the newest mutation of such viruses as the Additional Guard Virus and the System Defender Virus. End up with any of these three and consider your computer in critical condition.


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How Did I Get Infected With Live PC Care?

warning-spyware-detectedLive PC Care and badware just like it commonly end up on your computer due to the following causes. You will need to uninstall Live PC Care if you think you’re infected:

  • Freeware or shareware: Many times freeware or shareware is secretly bundled with spyware. It is how the developers earn money for the time they spent. It’s a sneaky, but it’s fairly common.
  • Peer-to-peer software: Do you use a peer-to-peer (P2P) program or other application with a shared network? When you use these applications, you put your system at risk for mistakenly downloading an infected file, including software like Live PC Care.
  • Questionable websites: Malicious or questionable websites can install programs such as Live PC Care through security holes and automatic downloads, such as video codecs. If you feel your browser is unsafe, consider using the newest version of Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Internet Explorer.

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What are Common Signs of Live PC Care Infection?

  • Slow Computer Performance
  • Annoying Pop-Ups
  • Taskbar Warnings
  • Strange new icons and desktop backgrounds
  • Internet Browsing Re-directs and Hijacks
  • System Crashes
  • High Pressure Marketing Tactics to “Purchase Full Version” of software
  • Example of Live PC Care Fake Warnings:
    livepccarefakewarnings

How Do I Remove Live PC Care?

How to remove Live PC Care: There are two methods. The manual way and the automatic way. First – if you want to try and remove it manually (and I only recommend this to IT Professionals!) you must disable all related system processes, adjust all related system DLL files and registry files in the LOCAL_HKEY_USER folder, block all related websites, and delete all program files with the Live PC Care name. Below are the Live PC Care Removal Instructions.

Live PC Care Manual Removal Instructions:

Stop Live PC Care Processes:

LP339.exe DBOLE.exe

Get Rid of Live PC Care DLLs:

mozcrt19.dll sqlite3.dll

Remove Live PC Care Registry Keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\3
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{3F2BBC05-40DF-11D2-9455-00104BC936FF}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\xp_5ea56.DocHostUIHandler
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes “URL” = “http://search-gala.com/?&uid=7&q={searchTerms}”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “RunInvalidSignatures” = “1″
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent\Post Platform “[xSP_2:117fc3395e69e29f71abba93a68c4181_7]“
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes “URL” = “http://search-gala.com/?&uid=7&q={searchTerms}”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Live PC Care”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “CheckExeSignatures” = “no”

Remove Live PC Care Files and Folders:

LP339.exe LPCG.ico 8233.mof mozcrt19.dll sqlite3.dll vd952342.bd lpcg.cfg cookies.sqlite Live PC Care.lnk cb.drv CLSV.sys DBOLE.exe DBOLE.sys exec.dll fan.exe FW.dll hymt.drv kernel32.drv PE.tmp ppal.dll ppal.sys runddl.dll SM.dll search.xml

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\117fc
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\LPCGSys
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Live PC Care

Note: In any Live PC Care files I mention above, “%UserProfile%” is a variable referring to your current user’s profile folder. If you’re using Windows NT/2000/XP, by default this is “C:\Documents and Settings\[CURRENT USER]” (e.g., “C:\Documents and Settings\JoeSmith”). If you have any questions about manual Live PC Care removal, go ahead and leave a comment.

How to delete Live PC Care files in Windows XP and Vista:

  1. Click your Windows Start menu, and then click “Search.”
  2. A speech bubble will pop up asking you, “What do you want to search for?” Click “All files and folders.”
  3. Type a Live PC Care file in the search box, and select “Local Hard Drives.”
  4. Click “Search.” Once the file is found, delete it.

How to stop Live PC Care processes:

  1. Click the Start menu, select Run.
  2. Type taskmgr.exe into the the Run command box, and click “OK.” You can also launch the Task Manager by pressing keys CTRL + Shift + ESC.
  3. Click Processes tab, and find Live PC Care processes.
  4. Once you’ve found the Live PC Care processes, right-click them and select “End Process” to kill Live PC Care.

How to remove Live PC Care registry keys:

warningWarning! Your registry is a vital key to your Windows system. If you plan on making any edits to your registry, you absolutely must backup your registry first in case anything goes wrong. Be forewarnd that a mistake when editing your registry can result in a computer that no longer boots up. These instructions are designed for IT Professionals and PC Experts.

  1. Select your Windows menu “Start,” and click “Run.” An “Open” field will appear. Type “regedit” and click “OK” to open up your Registry Editor.
  2. Registry Editor will open as a window with two panes. The left side Registry Editor’s window lets you select various registry keys, and the right side displays the registry values of the registry key you select.
  3. To find a registry key, such as any Live PC Care registry keys, select “Edit,” then select “Find,” and in the search bar type any of Live PC Care’s registry keys.
  4. As soon as Live PC Care registry key appears, you can delete the Live PC Care registry key by right-clicking it and selecting “Modify,” then clicking “Delete.”

How to delete Live PC Care DLL files:

  1. First locate Live PC Care DLL files you want to delete. Open your Windows Start menu, then click “Run.” Type “cmd” in Run, and click “OK.”
  2. To change your current directory, type “cd” in the command box, press your “Space” key, and enter the full directory where the Live PC Care DLL file is located. If you’re not sure if the Live PC Care DLL file is located in a particular directory, enter “dir” in the command box to display a directory’s contents. To go one directory back, enter “cd ..” in the command box and press “Enter.”
  3. When you’ve located the Live PC Care DLL file you want to remove, type “regsvr32 /u SampleDLLName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 /u jl27script.dll”) and press your “Enter” key.

If you wish to restore any Live PC Care DLL file you deleted, type “regsvr32 DLLJustDeleted.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 jl27script.dll”) into your command box, and hit the “Enter” key.

Did Live PC Care change your homepage?

  1. Click Windows Start menu > Control Panel > Internet Options.
  2. Under Home Page, select the General > Use Default.
  3. Type in the URL you want as your home page (e.g., “http://www.google.com”).
  4. Select Apply > OK.

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