What is PCKeeper and how to uninstall it from your PC (PUP Removal Guide)

PCKeeper is a popular anti-virus and PC optimizing software developed by Essentware. At the moment the company offers two products PCKeeper Live and PCKeeper Antivirus. Those programs are known as malicious and some even call PCKeeper a virus. We cannot say that PCKeeper is a virus, however we can clearly state that PCKeeper is a Potentially Unwanted Program due to some facts and reasons.

PCKeeper is designed to scan your computer for problems and then if you want to fix them you will have to pay some money for full version of the program. Definitely the program may find some issues on your computer such as unused temp files and old registry entries, but PCKeeper exaggerates the scan results to scare users into purchasing the full version of the program. Also the program is widely spread bundled together with freeware and shareware programs and as we know, most of the adware and browser hijackers are using the same methods of spreading and it is not a good sign to follow the malicious programs schemes. PCKeeper is also advertised through pop-up ads and on dubious websites. It is very suspicious for the legitimate program to follow those shady marketing methods.

Technically PCKeeper is not a virus, however you don’t want to pay for some program that appeared on your computer out of nowhere and pops up various security alerts. Also the program is able to gather some information about user, such as IP address, Name, Location and other. The developers of PCKeeper saying that this information is collected in order to improve their services, however keep in mind that your personal information will be exposed to the third party.

To completely remove the PCKeeper PUP from your computer we recommend to follow the comprehensive removal guide below or try our automatic removal tool which was specifically designed to completely uninstall PCKeeper and other Potentially Unwanted Programs from your computer.