In some cases users may be given a choice to accept or decline a custom offer to install PC Privacy Shield and other programs during the set-up process of third-party freeware and dubious torrents. The program may arrive as a custom offer or inside a dubious file that automatically downloads and installs it. PC Privacy Shield is typically promoted by freeware and advertisements on media related websites including torrent websites, video streaming websites, online gaming websites, and others. This can use a lot of system resources as well. It also creates and schedules new tasks in Windows Task Manager in order to run every time you start Windows. A process titled PCPrivacyShield (32 bit) (or other) will continue to run. It will remain enabled in the background and use your system resources. If you are able to manually quit the program it will not actually turn off. It will try to convince users to purchase the product with various tactics including pop-ups and confusing tactics to manually quit the program. The program is also a pest to simply close. These are the threats found after this program was installed to our test machine.
This means that if you find PC Privacy Shield installed onto your computer without your knowledge it could mean that your computer is infected with malware and other threats. If the program can convice a user that they are at risk it might make them more susceptible to purcahse the full program in order to use it.Īn issue that malware analysts find with PC Privacy Shield and other programs like it is that they are always advertised alongside or bundled with malware and potentially unwanted programs. It is usually assumed to be a scare-mongering marketing ploy designed frighten users into purchasing or regitering the program for a cost. This is very common for these types of suspicious program. PC Privacy Shield will always claim that a very large amount of issues are found and that your computer is in poor health. Once PC Privacy Shield is installed it will begin to automatically scan your computer for user names and passwords, your banking information, your browser history, message history, cookies, and local trace files. If you perform a scan with PC Privacy Shield you will be able to see personal information which is logged into your browser.
The program also scans for saved user names and passwords that are logged into Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari and can clean or replace junk files and browser history. The developer claims the software scans for and removes threats from your PC or laptop. PC Privacy Shield by ShieldApps is a questionable “scan-only” program that claims to be an Anti-Malware and System Optimizer type program for Windows.
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