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By George Norman

Added on 08 Jan 2010(1629 Views)

classification: Rogue AntiSpyware Programs
CCenter, also known as C Center or Control Center, carries the tagline “Best PC health components” and claims to be an all-in-one tool for keeping your system protected. Unfortunately though this not the case! CCenter is nothing more than a rogue and as such it cannot do any of the things it brags about. What’s even worse is that you may not have asked for CCenter’s functionality in the first place. The rogue is usually distributed by Trojans – a Trojan compromises the user’s computer, downloads and installs the rogue without the user’s consent.
So you have a rogue that has been installed on your system without your consent. What do you do? The answer is simple: remove the CCenter rogue immediately. The software cannot perform any of the tasks it brags about; furthermore, it tries to scam you out of some money. That’s what rogues do. They maliciously detect all sorts of problems, then ask the user to purchase a license and thus address the problems they detected. The catch is that the problems detected by rogue software applications are fake. Even if they were legitimate, the rogue has no way of addressing them. So you are basically paying for a useless piece of software to address some made-up problem.

Rogues also bombard the user with popups and fake security alerts, hijack the browser, cause the computer to act sluggish and potentially disable genuine security software applications.

Automatic removal guide
Step 1. If you have a printer, make sure to print out this tutorial. If you do not have a printer, save this tutorial, go out to a copy center and print it out there. If you do not have a printer and do not want to go out, then use the pen and paper method: grab a pen and a piece of paper and write down the instruction presented in the steps below. In the process of eliminating CCenter from your machine you will need to shut down the browser. And since this will also shut down the tutorial, you need to know what you should do next.

Step 2. You will have to install Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware. In this regard you need to download the software’s setup executable. Just click this link and save the .exe file on your computer (preferably on your desktop).

Step 3. Double click the Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware setup executable. It should be on the desktop under the name mbam-setup. This will launch the installation process. If you already know how to install a piece of software, proceed to step 4. If you do not know how to do this, we’ll walk you though it all:



- The Select Setup Language window should have popped up. By default, the language in which the software will be installed is set to English, but you can change this. The software provides support for 30+ languages. After selecting the language of your choice, click OK. It would be best to just leave it set to English though.



- The Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware Setup Wizard will now popup. Just click Next.



- You will be presented with the License Agreement. Click I accept the agreement and then click Next. If you do not accept the agreement you will not be able to continue.



- Keep clicking Next until you get to the Ready to install window. Now click Install. After the installation process completes click Finish. Do not uncheck the boxes next to Update Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware or Launch Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware.















Step 4. The Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware application will launch automatically. The Perform quick scan option should be checked by default – if it isn’t then check it and then click Scan. You are well advised to close all running apps before clicking scan. This will ensure the scan for CCenter will complete swiftly.



Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware will start scanning your files for signs of CCenter. This may take a while, so be patient. It all depends on how powerful your computer is and how many files Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has to scan.



When the scan for CCenter is complete you will be presented with a notification box. Click OK to close the notification box and go to the main Scanner screen. Click Show Results and you will be presented with a list of all the infected files Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected.





Step 5. Click Remove Selected and Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware will remove all the infected files it has detected. It may be necessary to restart your computer in order to remove some of these files. After Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is done removing all the infected files, it will open Notepad and present the scan log to you. You can review the log at your leisure – save it If you want.



Step 6. Close Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware and you’re done. No traces of CCenter should be left on your computer.

Manual removal guide

Stop and remove the processes:



Access the Windows Registry Editor and delete the following registry keys:



Locate and delete the following files:





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