Title: Drive Cleaner

Type: Malware

Remove Drive Cleaner. Removal instructions

Also known as: DriveCleaner

Severity scale:

(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

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Drive Cleaner manual removal:

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Kill processes:
installer.exe, insthelp.exe, pv.exe, udc2006.exe, updater.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

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

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

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

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

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.

Information added: 2006-10-20 08:49:10
Information updated: 2006-10-20 08:49:34

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