PowerCare Removal Guide

PowerCare is a fake antivirus program try to cheat the money from the user by urge them to purchase the full version of PowerCare which can do nothing on the computer. PowerCare cannot detect and remove any kind of virus, malware or trojan. However, PowerCare will repeatedly show pop ups that the computer is infected by a lot of malware or trojans. PowerCare will convince the user that all of the detected malwares or trojans can be removed if the user purchase the full version of PowerCare which cannot remove malware or trojan actually.

PowerCare can be removed by stopping and killing all the the processes (powercarebk.exe, powercareu.exe, powercareu[1].exe, uninst_powercare[1].exe, powercarebk[1].exe, powercare[1].exe, uninst_powercare.exe, powercaresetup.exe, powercare.exe) by using Emsisoft HiJackFree. The user also has to restore all the registry entries added or modified by PowerCare by using Registry Editor. Finally, all the related files of PowerCare must be deleted from the hard drive. All of them are shown in the removal guide below.

PowerCare should be removed immediately!

PowerCare Removal Guide
Kill Process
(How to kill a process effectively?)
powercarebk.exe
powercareu.exe
powercareu[1].exe
uninst_powercare[1].exe
powercarebk[1].exe
powercare[1].exe
uninst_powercare.exe
powercaresetup.exe
powercare.exe

Unregister DLL files
%programfiles%\powercare\powercared.dll
%userprofiles%\local settings\temporary internet files\Content.IE5\ISF6HJK1\egutil[1].dll
$programfiles%\powercare\EGutil.dll

Delete Registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\powercare
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random].exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "[random]"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "PowerCare"

Remove Folders and Files
Remove all temporary internet files
%programfiles%\powercare
%windir%\system32\uninst_powercare.exe
%userprofile%\Desktop\powercaresetup.exe