How to remove PC Speed Clean

What do you know about PC Speed Clean

PC Speed Clean is a rogue antivirus program which is created by the developers to display false scan results to deceive the compute users. It can automatically install on the computer without user’s permission along with other programs that contains its installation package. Once installed, PC Speed Clean will change the registry entries and start up items so that to keep launching itself every time the computer starts.

When you log onto the desktop, PC Speed Clean will pop up on your screen immediately and begin to scan your system without your permission. After scanning, it will show false scan result to mislead you to purchase its full version to remove the detected various infections. While the PC Speed Clean has no idea whether there are those infections on your computer. You should not straight away believe it. It is better to  install a legit and well-know anti-malware to scan your computer. PC Speed Clean is not a legit programs, you should remove it.

Impact of PC Speed Clean

1. This rogue can compromise your system and may introduce additional infections like rogue software.
2. It forces you to visit websites and advertisements which are not trusted and may lead you to pay money wrongly for worthless products.
3. It takes up high resources and strikingly slow down your computer speed and even causes your computer stuck frequently.
4. This virus may allow cyber criminals to track your computer and steal your personal information.
5. This rogue can cause serious damage by deleting important files and destroying information on your system.

Two effective methods to remove PC Speed Clean permanently from your computer system

1. Remove PC Speed Clean manually.

2. Remove PC Speed Clean by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Detail instruction:


Method one: Manually remove PC Speed Clean

A. First start your computer and get into the safe mode with networking

<Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8″ key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press ENTER>


B. Follow the steps to continue

Step 1.Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by PC Speed Clean

Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu→type msconfig in the search bar → open System Configuration →Disable all possible startup items generated.

Step 2. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 4. Delete related malicious registry entries .

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"

Method two: Automatically get rid of PC Speed Clean with Spyhunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.

A. First start your computer and get into the safe mode with networking

<Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8″ key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press ENTER>
B. Follow the steps to continue

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool

Step two: Install Spyhunter.

Open spyh File sph-setup-win7 spyhunter installed

Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.

Note: Manually removal PC Speed Clean is a tough job since there are many related files need to detect and remove. Some files will be hidden so that you cannot find them out and remove completely. If you have been spend much time on manually removal but still cannot fit this problem, you are highly recommended to download Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove PC Speed Clean and other threats from your system once for all.