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How to remove Control Center rogue anti-spyware

Malware Description:
Control Center (aka ControlCenter) appears to maintain the malvertising traditions of such aggressive rogue anti-spywares as Privacy Components, Privacy Center and Safety Center. All of the above rogue programs are quite similar by their essence and aim to trick credulous PC users and rip them off in the long run. Control Center claims to be an all-in-one solution pack that encompasses such options as virus protection, web firewall, privacy and security tools, data encryption and some other solutions which are supposed to easy one’s computer routine and defend the Operating System concerned. Therefore, it’s reasonable to consider Control Center to be both a rogue anti-spyware program and a fake optimization tool – which makes the utility a yet bigger hazard than we thought first. Control Center infiltrates your system without giving a slightest sign of the installation intensions consequently you are unlikely to notice Control Center intrusion. This junkware tends to apply quite sophisticated trojan-powered techniques to get on board and start deploying its dirty job. When inside, Control Center hacks the system registry and creates multiple corrupted files so that the system is incapable to resist the infection. Then, Control Center floods the targeted OS with its numerous ads (nagging system tray alerts, fake scanners etc.) which state your computer is in great danger that can’t be fixed unless you purchase Control Center licensed copy. Well, buying Control Center is a bad idea because it won’t help your PC and will, on the contrary, ruin the compromised system eventually; not to mention the extremely jeopardizing effect Control Center has on the user’s privacy. Please do not linger too much thinking of whether you should remove Control Center or not – just uninstall Control Center rogueware before it goes nasty on your PC and your privacy.

Malware Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware

Malware Author: Unknown

Threat Level: Critical

Advice: Immediately remove and scan for additional malware

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How to remove Control Center and affiliated threats manually:
Manual removal of Control Center is a feasible objective if you have sufficient expertise in dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries.

The files to be deleted are listed below:

• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\agent.exe
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\cc.exe
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\settings.ini
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\uninstall.exe
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\guide.html
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\images
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\images\05.png
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\images\06.png
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\images\07.png
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\images\08.png
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\images\09.png
• %UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\faq\images\10.png
• %UserProfile%\Desktop\Control center.lnk

The registry entries that need to be removed are as follows:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Control center
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “agent.exe”
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon “Shell” = “%UserProfile%\Application Data\CC\cc.exe”

Please, be aware that manual removal of Control Center is a cumbersome process and does not always ensure complete deletion of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, manual interference of this kind may cause damage to the system. That’s why we strongly recommend automatic removal of Control Center, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.

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