PC Health Kit Virus Removal, Uninstall Rogue Application

What is PC Health Kit?

PC Health Kit claims to be a functional utility to safeguard computer from potential infections and optimize computer to be optimal. Being covered with basic services, PC Health Kit can be used to delete junk files, invalid shortcuts or privacy and temp files. It seems that PC Health Kit turns up to be a standard anti-malware application for computer users. However, numerous computer users encounter the problems caused by PC Health Kit and have indentified it as a rogueware infection. Once being installed, the PC Health Kit may occupy high system resources so that to slow down the performance of system, keeping the CPU running at high state. Also, the PC Health Kit application may hamper users to connect to Internet with any browser. And then, it may operate an auto scan on user’s computer stating that there have large numbers of threats or risks on computer, and encourage user to purchase its licensed full version to get rid of unwanted threats.

Unfortunately, the paid version of PC Health Kit may help users nothing at all. Along with those symptoms, the PC Health Kit application may even lead to worse traffic by dropping and executing lots of commercial advertisements or unknown pop-ups. Having the properties as a rogue virus, the PC Health Kit pro may open a backdoor for third party who attempts to make damage on affected computer and gain from victims. Simply, due to the existence of opened backdoor, remote hackers will be able to access compromised machine easily and steal whatever they want out of victims’ imagination. Hence, it is necessary to remove PC Health Kit application so that to avoid unwanted damage or loss.

How to Remove/Uninstall PC Health Kit

Method one:Add / Remove Program
Generally, we can use Add / Remove Program to remove the programs we choose, for it is a built-in program which helps Windows users to manage their PC. Also, with the help of it, you are able to add or delete program as you want.

1. Find the “start” button on the lower left corner of your monitor, and then click it.
2. Find and double click the button “Control Panel”.
3. Find “Add / Remove Program” icon in the control panel, and then double click it.
4. When the windows pop up, find PC Health Kit icon in the list, and then select it to start uninstalling it from your computer by clicking “Remove”.
5. When it is finished, reboot your computer to take effect.

Method two: Further Removal
Part One: Clean up program files
Program files are the files which make the program work, giving it the ability to load up and perform its operations. Removing related program files makes the software stop working permanently.

1. Go to My Computer, and then browse to C:/Program Files/ PC Health Kit.
2. Select that entire folder and then press SHIFT & DELETE to remove the files for PC Health Kit permanently.

Part Two: Remove these PC Health Kit Registry Entries:
1. Go to Start, and run.

2. Search for REGEDIT.EXE on your computer.

3. Open it up and then press CRTL + F

4. Then type “PC Health Kit” in the search box to search for all the keys with reference to that program.

5. Find out the files below, and delete them all:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ PC Health Kit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\XY

6. Remove these PC Health Kit files:

%UserProfile%\Desktop\ PC Health Kit.lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ PC Health Kit \ PC Health Kit .lnk
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ PC Health Kit \Uninstall PC Health Kit .lnk
%ProgramFiles%\ PC Health Kit \ PC Health Kit 4_021709.na
%ProgramFiles%\ PC Health Kit \ PC Health Kit.exe
%ProgramFiles%\ PC Health Kit \nutilities.dll
%ProgramFiles%\ PC Health Kit \unins000.dat
%ProgramFiles%\ PC Health Kit \unins000.exe
%ProgramFiles%\ PC Health Kit \UninstlDll.dll

7. When all the steps are finished, you can reboot your computer to take effect.

NOTE: 
1. Before you uninstall PC Health Kit, you should back up your registry in case data loss, or if you perform by mistake, you are able to restore to initial condition.
2. Stopping running program. It will not be efficient if PC Health Kit is running while uninstalling it.

Manual removal refers to key parts of computer system. Any error step may lead to system crash. VilmaTech Online Tech Expert is recommended to help you remove the PC Health Kit virus if you don’t have sufficient expertise in dealing with the removal.