Remove Cyber Protection Center

Cyber Protection Center is another malicious program that can be dropped and installed on computer without a notice. Authors of this program uses Trojan to spread it by exploiting security vulnerabilities on computer. They will also take advantage of the technologically innocence and computer security ignorance of their victims. Cyber Protection Center comes bundled with another rogue program Cyber Security. Both shares the same goal of selling the unwanted program by intimidating users with fake alerts and warning messages.

If got infected with Cyber Protection Center virus, it is best to scan with a known and legit antivirus and antimalware programs. Refrain from removing detected malware with the same rogue program otherwise you will end up buying it at the payment website created primarily for the fraudulent transactions. Removal of Cyber Protection Center virus is included at the end of this page. Please follow the procedure carefully.

What are the Symptoms of Cyber Protection Center virus Infection?

Virus scan will be executed after installtion. Numerous fabricated threat will be detected.

It will modify Windows Registry and add the following entries:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Cyber Protection Center
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\wow64main.exe
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run “Randon Letters and Numbers”

The threat will drop the following malicious file/files:

• %Program Files%\CPC\cpc.exe
• %Program Files%\CPC\cyberprotectioncenter.exe
• %Program Files%\CPC\system.dat
• cpc.exe
• winsource.dll
• Help.lnk
• Registration.lnk
• Cyber Protection Center.lnk

How to Remove Cyber Protection Center Virus Manually

1. Restart your computer in SafeMode
– After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
– From the selections, Select SafeMode

2. Remove Registry entries that the threat added. You MUST BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST.
– Click Start > Run
– Type in the field, regedit
– Navigate and look for the registry entries mentioned above and delete if necessary

3. Delete malicious files that the threat added:
– Base on the given location above, browse and delete the file
– If no location is given, click Start>Search> and search for the file.
– If cannot be deleted, press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access Task Manager, see if the file is running in the process. If it is, select the file and click End Process. Perform file delete again.

4. Scan computer with Antivirus Program
– Update antivirus program
– Scan computer and delete all detected threats.

How to Easily Remove Cyber Protection Center

1. Print this procedure as we need to close all programs running later.
2. Download AntiMalware Application here and save it to your Desktop.
3. Close all open applications.
4. Double-Click on the downloaded mbam-setup.exe to start the installation. If unable to execute, infections on computer is preventing it from running, rename the file mbam-setup.exe to anything (like myfile.exe)
5. Run the installation on the default settings. No changes are necessary.
6. Just before completing the installation, make sure that the following are marked check.
– Update the program
– Launch the program

7. The tool will run and update itself after installation. Close it after the update.

8. Restart your computer in SafeMode
– After Power-On the computer, just before Windows start, press F8
– From the selections, Select SafeMode

9. Click on the icon and start to Perform Full Scan to begin scanning your computer for Cyber Protection Center related files.
10. After scanning, a message will appear stating that the scan is completed successfully. Click OK.
11. Click Show Results and detected threats will be displayed.
12. Make sure that all threats are marked check, then click Remove Selected to begin removal of the malicious files.
13. Exit AntiMalware Apps and restart your computer.

14. Cyber Protection Center and all its files are now removed from your computer. To guard your computer from this threat and avoid future infections, you may want real-time protection from a full version of anti-malware program..