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How to Remove PC Police
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Summary:
This article provides instructions for the manual deletion of the keylogger program PC Police. |
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PC Police is a keylogger program, designed to capture information such as chats in which the computer user participates, keystrokes of any kind, applications used by the computer user, and files viewed. This information is then transmitted to a predetermined remote site. The program is commercially available and is intended for legitimate purposes. For instance, an employer may install PC Police on company-owned computers to ensure that the computers are only used for business purposes, or a parent may install the program on a computer used by minor children to ensure that the children are not being contacted by unsafe persons while using the internet. However, the program can also be used by someone with an irresponsible or malicious intent to invade a computer user’s privacy. If you are an adult and find that PC Police has been installed on your private home computer without your permission, you may wish to remove it.
PC Police is a program that must be manually installed on a computer. Therefore, if you find PC Police running on your computer, it is likely that another person has installed the program on your computer. PC Police is designed to operate every time a computer is started up, and will operate silently, giving no indication of its presence even when the captured information is transmitted to the remote site. Fortunately, there are reputable spyware detection programs available that can scan for the presence of PC Police on a computer.
If you discover that PC Police has been installed on your computer and you wish to remove it, it is advisable that you make use of a spyware removal program, or consult with a computer professional regarding the removal of the program. Manual deletion is not a good idea unless the computer user is already an expert at the manual deletion of programs from a computer. Even then, manual deletion is undertaken only at your own risk, because manual deletion of programs can have unforeseen consequences. Additionally, the accidental deletion of the wrong file can render a computer unstable. For this reason, if you are determined to attempt a manual deletion of PC Police, it is crucial that you first create a backup or a System Restore point before proceeding. You can also prevent your computer from accessing the internet until PC Police has been deleted. To provide the greatest amount of protection, it is advisable that you start your computer in Safe mode.
To create a System Restore point on a computer running Windows XP, select Control Panel from the Start menu and then select Performance and Maintenance. A link titled System Restore will appear at the left that will allow you to follow prompts to create a new System Restore point.
Next, the processes associated with PC Police should be ended using the Task Manager....[more]
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