Do you often encounter computer viruses? Recently, massive attacks on the systems of government organizations have become commonplace. For ordinary users, such viruses are not always affected. Attempts are mostly aimed at undermining the economy and building political conflicts. But there are viruses that can affect your PC personally. How to remove QQPCMgr and where it comes from, we'll talk further.
Description
This is one of the dangerous files that has hurt many PCs last year. Interestingly, it itself is considered a Chinese-made antivirus. Tencent worked on it. The developers are convinced that the program will protect your computer from hacker attacks and viruses. It quickly detects spyware or other threats and eliminates it.
In fact, it turns out that this is one continuous virus. Many users think so, because they noticed how it is installed with the OS. Moreover, a person may not know about this.
"Splinter"
Of course, Tencent QQPCMgr is not such a terrible virus as worms and all kinds of trojans. It rarely deletes your personal data, does not block access, etc. But, since you won’t even know that the program is installed on your PC, compatibility issues may occur. If you want to install a reliable antivirus, a Chinese competitor will in every way interfere with this and prevent it.
In addition, over time you will notice a lot of unnecessary information, endless system freezes, etc.
How does it get?
Before we figure out how to remove QQPCMgr, let's try to understand how he got to us on a PC. Of course, in general, there are many options and they are all quite simple. It's hard to say where you might inadvertently stumble upon qqpctray.exe. But, as practice shows, doing this is very easy. In general, there are two options for where the installation file can be hidden:
- When downloading regular programs, especially not the most popular ones, you always come across a large number of archives and additional advertising applications. This is where the pest can be stored.
- Installer program options are another way to catch a virus. Even the largest and most popular software unfairly build such programs. So, clicking “Next”, an inexperienced user may not even notice that, together with a text editor, he installed a bunch of ads and “garbage”.
Despite the fact that, according to the developers, this is a super program for cleaning your PC, optimizing work, protection and other things, in the end you don’t even know Chinese. How should you figure it out? This is the main problem of how to remove QQPCMgr from the computer.
Harm
Well, before proceeding to the uninstall itself, you need to understand what awaits us if we leave the program on the computer. Perhaps it will not bother us at all. Firstly, it is completely useless. That is, due to the fact that we have a Chinese interface, we are neither hot nor cold from it.
Such an antivirus program can change your browser start pages. This is akin to the very small advertising pests, which often knock us down, add unnecessary bookmarks and change the toolbar.
In addition, there is an option that the program can use data on the hard drive. For example, if she suddenly saw that you rarely use this or that utility, she will delete it without warning. She also does not like duplicates that may be important to you.
Manually
Many users, not knowing how to remove QQPCMgr, can try to do it at random. Of course, there is a fraction of the probability at which it can turn out to “blindly” get rid of the antivirus program, but it is extremely small. Therefore, it is better to follow the instructions.
To do this, go through the "Start" in the "Control Panel". Make sure that the "Large Icons" function is selected in the upper right corner of the "View" line. Now we are looking for “Programs and components”, in the window that opens we will look for those utilities that seem suspicious to us.
Here we may not like PC Manager, Download Manager, QQ Phone Manage. As practice shows, despite the fact that they will be removed from the system, in fact the antivirus program will continue to do its “dirty tricks”.
Therefore, we continue to the "Task Manager". To do this, use the combination Ctrl + Alt + Delete. You will notice the Processes tab. A lot of lines will appear. Here you need to look for processes called Tencent QQPCMgr antivirus. What kind of program is this, you already understand, therefore we are completing such processes that have Chinese characters. The qqpctray.exe process is also not needed.
After that, you will need to find the folder with the program in the computer itself. You need to go along the path C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Tencent \ QQPCMng. In the last folder, select the anti-virus serial number, it is represented by a simple set of numbers like 10.10 16434.218.
This folder contains the real uninstaller file. It has a .exe extension. It needs to be launched. But at the same time, do not try to choose Uninstall.exe. This is an installation option. We search for Uninst.exe and run the file.
You will see the uninstaller of the Chinese antivirus software. In this case, it makes no sense to talk about some words and names, since everything is in English. It will be easier to describe the process "on the fingers." Click on the left button. Moreover, this is the main recipe for removing such programs. In the subsequent windows, constantly select the left button.
After all this, you will need to restart the PC and clean the registry. In the editor, you will need to "rustle" all branches with names and derivatives of the virus and delete everything. To search, use the combination Ctrl + F3.
No file
If all else fails, and you are still looking for a way to uninstall QQPCMgr from Windows 7, then most likely you have not found the uninstaller file. It turns out that in some versions of the antivirus, the Chinese hid Uninst.exe. ” If you did not find this file, then try the following:
- Roll back the Windows system to the recovery point. The moment before the installation of the virus.
- Use protected mode and delete folders with the name of the virus.
- Go to safe mode and from there complete all dubious processes through the "Task Manager". Uninstall the program after that with the Uninstall Tool utility.
- Stop the virus in the toolbar (on the panel with the clock). Complete processes in the "Task Manager" and in startups. Delete everything in the browser.
conclusions
How to remove QQPCMgr, you know. Of course, sometimes there are situations when you have to "tear down" the operating system. If you have nothing to lose, or you caught this virus, just when you installed everything, then it is better to do it all again, more carefully.
If you accidentally picked up this program and found a file uninstaller, then you are very lucky. Residues from the virus can be cleaned with a reliable antivirus. You can try downloading a good uninstaller, but not the fact that a Chinese virus will let you install it.