Remove Drive Cleaner. Description and removal instructions

 
Title: Drive Cleaner
Also known as: DriveCleaner
Type: Malware
Severity scale:Drive Cleaner severity is 40  (40 / 100)
 
Drive Cleaner is a corrupt privacy protection program which purportedly erases Internet tracks, removes cookies and temporary files, cleans up program usage tracks, etc. However, it is actually a poor performance product criticised by the experts. Drive Cleaner produces exaggerated and inaccurate reports as goad to purchase. It automatically runs on every Windows startup.

This application is illegally installed to user computers through malicious advertisements and exploits.


Related files: installer.exe, insthelp.exe, pv.exe, udc2006.exe, updater.exe, udcpchk.dll, udcshell.dll

Drive Cleaner properties:
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Drive Cleaner removal:

remover for Drive Cleaner

Drive Cleaner manual removal:

Kill processes:
installer.exe, insthelp.exe, pv.exe, udc2006.exe, updater.exe
Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\DriveCleaner 2006 Free
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\UDCShell
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\UDCPChk.UDCPChk
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\UDCPChk.UDCPChk.1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{22024DC7-D190-44ec-9D49-AEE5F244A466}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{2BF3C5AD-F9EC-49d8-8568-D7DFFC77108B}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{7EC618F2-C506-4221-9F56-792B92BF762E}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{AE84FF0C-BABD-4D91-92A1-AF75D2D02E6D}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{C4C4786C-9861-46d2-BB63-AC782AB07046}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\{A22FBA1E-CAAF-4E45-8EFF-4A821AF03E69}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{0A89FF7F-1A12-42D9-ACCB-4217112DC7E0}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\UDCShell
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\UDCShell
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\UDCShell
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\UDCShell
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DriveCleaner 2006 Free
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DriveCleaner 2006 Free
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\UDC6_is1
Delete files:
installer.exe, insthelp.exe, pv.exe, udc2006.exe, updater.exe, udcpchk.dll, udcshell.dll
Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\DriveCleaner 2006 Free
C:\Documents and Setttings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\DriveCleaner 2006 Free
C:\Documents and Settings\[Current User]\Local Settings\Temp\UDC6_0001_[X]
Misc:
[X] is a combination of certain letters and digits.

Other programs to remove Drive Cleaner:

• Malwarebytes Anti Malware - Review - Download
• Malwarebytes Anti Malware - Review - Download
• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 20/10/06
Information updated: 20/10/06

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