Hello, could you please help me clear up those stuff things related with this PC Backup 360 for Windows. Since I use this PC Backup 360, I found there are many advertisements popping on the webpage I opened and I can’t stop those annoying pop-ups at all. I click to close then another new one coming up! That is crazy! And internet speed begins to slow down and when I open many webpages at the same time, web browser begins to get stuck there. And that PC Backup 360 webpage seems insert some malware into web browser, as the homepage is changed to be another unwanted one. Anyway, some computer problem happens.

Brief Introduction to PC Backup 360 for Windows

PC Backup 360 for Windows is not a useful and trustful security tool, but it has been classified as a kind of rogue antispyware. On the website, it promotes and claims that this tool can help back up all your files on Windows for free. However, that is not a free program to help back up files on your computer. At the beginning, it will so some online backup for some small files to attract you then later it will soon pop up a prompt window to tell you that if you want to continue to finish backing up all the files on your computer, you have to purchase the real PC Backup 360 for Windows. And the price is very high. And what’s worse, what it does an online backup can’t be back to your computer until your purchase its real version and install that version into your computer. For example, if it help backup some music files online, it will be hard to take back if you can’t purchase its so-called real version. It actually aims at scam people’s money. And to further convince you, it will keep popping up a fake warning alert telling you that your computer is at high risk and needs to be back up all files online in case the files are infected with computer threats. That is a fake warning message just to further deceive you.

But actually PC Backup 360 for Windows is a danger to computer security. Once you open that PC Backup 360 online webpage, it will soon inject some malware extension, add-on or plugin into your web browser and change the default settings of the browser. The homepage will be changed to be another unwanted one and when you use the Google search to look up something, it will go straightly to some unwanted links or webpages. Actually those potentially malicious links and webpages are infected with virus or malware or some rogue programs. Once you click to open those links or webpages, the virus-infected program will soon get installed into the system. Even though you really purchase that fake PC Backup 360 for Windows, you will find computer problems will keep happening. The system capacity will suddenly be taken up and you have no way to check and remove some junk files and programs. Some normal programs are infected with unsafe files, which will let computer work improperly. The computer performance will be degraded. In a word, please don’t be a fool to purchase that untruthful PC Backup 360 for Windows, as it will not help you back up files as it mentioned but a rogue antispyware.

Properties of the Fake Anti-virus Spyware

-Always pops up once you boot up your computer or run a program, claiming your computer is in great risk

-Asking you to purchase a code to activate this software, so that it can help you to remove the threats in your computer

-Can modify the computer registry once it is installed into the computer

-Can prohibit legit program to run, including your anti-virus programs

-Can occupy a great usage of CPU, which slows down the performance of computer or even causes blue screen

Finding all or some of these symptoms on your computer, sorry to say that your computer is infected by PC Backup 360 for Windows. Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts for manual removal guide. Also, we will provide a short removal guide below for computer literate.

Manual Removal Guide of Fake Anti-virus Program (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Try to access the Safe mode with Networking.

In order to get into this mode, you should restart your infected computer and tap F8 key constantly when computer is booting back up to get safe mode options on the screen, use arrow keys to highlight the option you want to enter then press E/Enter key. * Usually, this rogue program will be disabled from automatically starting in safe modes. Users will be able to fix the PC Backup 360 for Windows problem without constantly blocks from the fake antispyware. If you are a Windows 8 user, click here and learn how to boot up Windows 8 to safe mode.

Safe-mode-with-Networking

For those computer which are XP operating systems, you will need to you choose your XP system after you choose safe mode with networking, you can press Enter directly without choosing any thing.

safe-mode-system-choose

After loading files, you need to log in your account to get the safe mode with networking, for XP users, please choose Yes when you see the dialog.

windows_xp_safe_mode_dialog

Step 2: Press CTRL, SHIFT and ESC  these three keys together at the same time to pull up Windows Task Manager; click Processes tab on top and scroll down the list to find and end odd processes related to this PC Backup 360 for Windows. Names of the processes are random.
Windows Task Manager

Step 3: Open Control Panel from Start Menu, then open Programs, click on Uninstall a program. Find suspicious programs or tool-bars related to the PC Backup 360 for Windows. Right click on it and select Uninstall.

Programs and Features

 

Step 4: Click on Start button or press Win+R, then type regedit in the box to open Registry Editor, after that, try to find
C:\Users\profile name here\AppData\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Video Guide on How to Remove Rogue Program:

YouTube Video Removal Guide:

Conclusion:

If you want to use a trustful security to scan and protect even can back up your files on computer, you should choose those legitimate antivirus program. But don’t be a fool to trust a free but useless program like PC Backup 360 for Windows. Even though it can really back up something as it mention before it asks you purchase a full version to back up all files, its goal is just to scam people money. The webpage promoting this PC Backup 360 is also a threat to computer system as it may put some malicious thing into the system. If you want to back up files on windows computer, you should figure out an effective way to carry out this matter. To keep your computer from being infected with other malware and virus, you should also pay attention to online activities. Once brought the computer threats, computer security will be in a danger.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a quite level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of PC Backup 360 for Windows? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on June 12, 2016 10:08 am

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