What is PC Performer - How to remove the PC Performer

Can't get rid of PC Performer virus from Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 8? It keeps warning from my security firewall alert, it makes my computer runs really slow and almost freeze down. What to do if your computer is infected with such infection that can't be deleted by anti-virus software?

What is PC Performer?

PC Performer is detected by antivirus software and classified as a potential unwanted program. Technically speaking, PC Performer is not a malicious computer virus, but as an ad-support program, the virus does possess quite a lot of annoying traits which may not only interrupt computer users to surf the internet freely, but also decline the PC performance day after day. After infiltrating into the target PC, this virus attaches it to all most all the existing browsers in the computer like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, etc. without computer users' knowledge and permission. After that, it displays advertisements and sponsors links within the web browser. In general, the Trojan infection comes from network. It sneaks into users'computers during your visits to doubtful websites, spam email attachments and free downloads and so on. After invading the computer, the Trojan virus may help some notorious ads-on, plug-ins and extensions to be installed secretly. Indeed, it is designed to damage the computer terribly. In details, the Trojan virus can display pesky pop-up ads during your online activities. Besides, it causes random redirection every time you click on a web link or search for favorite content. To make you very upset, the Trojan infection changes the desktop background, homepage and other computer settings without any consent. It may open a back door for remote hackers to visit the contaminated system secretly in order to collect users’ vital personal and financial information. Thus, it is very necessary for users to carry out a prompt manual removal of PC Performer infection to enjoy clean computer environment soon.

How does Trojan.ransom.gend get on my computer?

Typically, it gets on your computer as video codecs which are needed to install so that you can view certain, especially porn related, videos from the internet. Besides, Trojan.ransom.gend can be distributed via: 1. Your clicking on some malicious links. 2. Your browsing the sites with bad reputation. 3. Your opening the infected email attachments. 4. Your freeware or shareware downloads. Manual Removal Guides: 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to PC Performer and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to PC Performer from the browsers Google Chrome Click on wrench icon-> locate Tools-> click on Extensions-> click on the bin icon or uncheck the items related to PC Performer.

Internet Explorer Click Tools>select "Manage Add-ons">"search providers">set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to "search results">remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox Click on Firefox button-> click on Add-ons-> search for all the extensions of PC Performer from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

As it is discussed, the PC Performer virus does great harm to the target computer. It is designed to damage the contaminated system and pilfer important information from unknown computer users. In fact, the Trojan corrupts your computer greatly to cause system crash and computer freezing problems. It slows down the system performance and affects executable programs greatly. Most of your favorite settings are typically changed unexpectedly. As a matter of fact, many executable programs are corrupted by this Trojan to function normally, especially the anti-virus program.