PC-Prot Description

PC-Prot is a corrupt anti-spyware application that is commonly brought into your computer by a Trojan, exploiting browser security vulnerabilities. As soon as PC-Prot is installed, it will create corrupt reports of non-existent virus threats. PC-Prot will then try to fool you into buying the “full version” of the promoted program. Malicious activities of PC-Prot may also slow down your computer system severely or even cause it to crash. It is strongly recommended to remove PC-Prot once it is detected.

Type: Spyware

How Can You Detect PC-Prot?

PC-Prot Technical Report

As new PC-Prot details are reported by our customers and findings from our Threat Research Center, we will update this section.

The following PC-Prot files with its MD5s were created in the system:

PC-Prot has typically the following processes in memory:

• uga6pcw.exe

PC-Prot created the following directories, files, paths:

• %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\PC-Prot
• %ProgramFiles%\PC-Prot

PC-Prot creates the following registry entries:

• Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Management\ARPCache\UAVIES_is1
• PC-Prot

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