pccleaners.exe
PC Cleaners by PC Cleaners Inc. (Signed)
Warning 6 antivirus scanners has detected malware in various versions of pccleaners.exe.
Overview
pccleaners.exe has 13 known versions, the most recent one is 10.11.0.0. pccleaners.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. By adding a startup entry to the run registry key, the file will be executed when the user logs into Windows. The average file size is about 57.44 MB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to PC Cleaners Inc. by the certification authority VeriSign. Some variations of the file have been seen to be installed with the program PC Cleaners from PC Cleaners. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is less than 0.01%, the average private memory consumption is about 36.4 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 76.48 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 49.63 KB per minute for reads and 584 Bytes per minute for writes.
What is pccleaners.exe?
PC Cleaners is registry cleaner, a class of third party software utility designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system, whose purported purpose is to remove redundant items from the Windows registry. Registry cleaners in general try to automate the process of looking for invalid entries, missing file references or broken links within the registry and resolving or removing them.
About pccleaners.exe (from PC Cleaners Inc.)
“We believe computers are meant to speed things up, not slow things down, so you can work smarter and faster. You shouldn't have to waste time dealing with viruses, spyware, PC errors, Registry problem”
 Details
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| File name: | pccleaners.exe |
| Publisher: | PC Cleaners Inc. |
| Product name: | PC Cleaners |
| Description: | PC Cleaner |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\pc cleaners\pccleaners.exe |
| Original name: | PCGUI.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | PC Cleaners Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of PC Cleaners.)
“With a single click, PC Cleaner will scan and clean all forms of malware which may be causes of PC issues and poor system performance! With our award winning, tested and certified Malware engine, PC C...”
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of pccleaners.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'PC Cleaners' → "C:\Program Files\PC Cleaners\PCCleaners.exe" /minimize
Scheduled tasks
- The task 'pc-dis-upd' runs daily in the path '\pc-dis-upd'
- Entry path '\pc-dis-upd'
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'PC Cleaners' → "C:\ProgramData\PC Cleaners\PCCleaners.exe" /minimize
Malware detections
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 6 of them detected the following malware.
| Antivirus engine | Engine version | Detection | File version |
| ESET NOD32 |
7.8498 |
a variant of Win32/PCCleaners |
10.11.0.0 |
| ESET NOD32 |
7.7900 |
a variant of Win32/PCCleaners |
10.11.0.0 |
| ESET NOD32 |
7.8597 |
a variant of Win32/PCCleaners |
10.11.0.0 |
| Rising Antivirus |
24.68.03.01 |
Suspicious |
10.11.0.0 |
| Rising Antivirus |
24.71.06.04 |
Suspicious |
10.11.0.0 |
| Vba32 AntiVirus |
3.12.22.2 |
suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h |
10.11.0.0 |
All file variations of pccleaners.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
38.46% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
23.08% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
15.38% |
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| Windows 8 |
7.69% |
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| Windows 7 Enterprise |
7.69% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
7.69% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 75.00% of PC Cleaners.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Acer |
75.00% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
25.00% |
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