Secure PC Cleaner

Posted: June 2, 2016

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:

Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Ranking:	10,973
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	35,602

First Seen:	June 2, 2016
Last Seen:	March 1, 2025
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Secure PC Cleaner is not an application that you should trust if you experience issues with your PC or it runs sluggishly. Secure PC Cleaner is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), which means that Secure PC Cleaner may be associated with various problems. Most importantly, Secure PC Cleaner cannot deliver the promised features. This questionable optimization utility may rely on different techniques to deceive the users that their PCs are in a terrible condition. The ultimate purpose is to mislead the user into upgrading to the paid version, which is just as useless as the free one. The price of the license is $39.95 for six months, after which the payment recurs automatically. You should not be too astonished if you detect this PUP in your system without downloading it from the official page. In fact, Securepccleaner.com is responsible for a minor part of the installations. More frequently, Secure PC Cleaner sneaks in unnoticed in a combination with other cost-free applications. This bundling tactic may be exceptionally efficient in spreading questionable software if you don't read details. Fortunately, if you set up such programs via the 'Custom' menu, you can choose for yourself which apps to load and which to ignore.

The interface of Secure PC Cleaner is no different than those of the legit system optimization programs. As a result, you may not understand immediately that this PUP is untrustworthy. The dubious application performs frequent scans automatically, which display fabricated results. Secure PC Cleaner may state that there are various errors in the Operating System (OS), broken Registry entries, user-related errors and startup problems. You also may get deceived that your machine is overwhelmed with junk files that need to be deleted immediately. The PUP sometimes claims that the computer is infected with advanced threats even if there are no harmful files whatsoever. The purpose of this tactic is to make you click on the green 'Fix issues' button. Of course, by doing so, you will not resolve the issues since they don't exist to begin with. Instead, the PUP will open a Web page that asks you to upgrade to the mentioned full version. You should close this site immediately because you have no reason to waste your money on such useless software. As long as Secure PC Cleaner remains, you may encounter the fake system scans all the time. It is advisable to use legit security software with proven efficiency to delete this PUP without leaving any traces of it.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Event Monitor\em.exe

File name: em.exe
Size: 3.29 MB (3295696 bytes)
MD5: f1c96ad39fe726a049011c53242faa82
Detection count: 117
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Event Monitor\em.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 22, 2021

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathRegister Secure PC Cleaner.lnkSecure PC Cleaner.lnkUninstall Secure PC Cleaner.lnkRegexp file mask%WinDir%\System32\Tasks\Secure PC Cleaner%WinDir%\System32\Tasks\Secure PC Cleaner_DEFAULT%WinDir%\System32\Tasks\Secure PC Cleaner_UPDATES%WINDIR%\Tasks\Secure PC Cleaner_DEFAULT.job%WINDIR%\Tasks\Secure PC Cleaner_UPDATES.jobHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Event MonitorSOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\SCHEDULE\TASKCACHE\TREE\Secure PC CleanerSOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\SCHEDULE\TASKCACHE\TREE\Secure PC Cleaner_DEFAULTSOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS NT\CURRENTVERSION\SCHEDULE\TASKCACHE\TREE\Secure PC Cleaner_UPDATESSOFTWARE\Secure PC CleanerSoftware\Secure\PC\CleanerSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Event MonitorSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Secure PC CleanerSoftware\Wow6432Node\Secure\PC\CleanerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Secure PC Cleaner_is1

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Secure PC Cleaner%APPDATA%\Event Monitor%AppData%\Secure PC Cleaner%ProgramFiles%\Secure PC Cleaner%ProgramFiles%\SecurePC Cleaner%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Secure PC Cleaner%ProgramFiles(x86)%\SecurePC Cleaner