PC Maximum Cleaner

PC Maximum Cleaner is one more potentially unwanted program that is advertised in a rather misleading way. On its official website, this application is marketed as an excellent optimization tool that should help you improve the performance of your operating system. While it might sound like a tool worthy of having you must know that the functionality of this program is suspicious and misleading to say the least. Additionally it has been found out that vendors of it tend to use questionable distribution methods. These are the main factors why this optimization tool has been dubbed as a potentially unwanted program by our malware researchers, which also strongly encourages you not to use it and to remove it if it is found active on your operating system. Make sure to read the rest of this article to learn how PC Maximum Cleaner works and why we recommend its removal.

The most suspicious thing about PC Maximum Cleaner is the way it works. As soon as it is up and fully running on your operating system it will start a full system scan, which should determine why your PC is not functioning the best way possible. Once it is over, you will see an extensive list of various errors within your system that must be fixed to help your PC run faster. While it might seem like a good thing to do, you must know that we have discovered that some of the errors in the results list are misleading. This is so because we have noticed that PC Maximum Cleaner identifies various temporary files and inactive registry keys and values as problems while in reality they do not affect your PC at all. As we see it, this is a scare tactic used to trick naïve users into purchasing a full version of PC Maximum Cleaner. Make sure not to pay for anything involving this suspicious optimization tool as there are way better programs to improve your computer’s performance. Make sure to remove PC Maximum Cleaner as it holds no beneficial features.

Even though you can download this suspicious optimization tool from its official website, our research team has found out that in quite a few cases this program is spread via bundled installers. Such installers are mostly obtained from various third-party hosting websites; therefore, we recommend downloading your software from official vendors’ websites only as such sites do not tend to provide installer filled up with suspicious programs. It goes without saying that your best bet to keep your operating system safe and secure at all times is by running a reliable antimalware tool. If you do not have such a tool, already make sure to implement one right now.

The removal of PC Maximum Cleaner is not that complicated as you can delete this questionable optimization tool via Control Panel. Once you have executed the manual removal, we advise you to conduct an in-depth analysis of your operating system for potential leftovers linked to PC Maximum Cleaner. This is important since we gave found out that at times this potentially unwanted program could be used as a security breach by other suspicious programs to enter your operating system in a quick and easy way.

How to remove PC Maximum Cleaner from your PC

Windows Vista and Windows 7

1. Click the Windows button.
   
2. Select Control Panel.
3. Click the Uninstall a program option.
4. Double-click PC Maximum Cleaner.
5. Confirm that you want to remove it

Windows XP

1. Click Start.
2. Select Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Uninstall the unwanted application.

Windows 8

1. Move the mouse pointer to the lower-left corner of the screen.
2. Right-click and then select Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a program.
4. Right-click PC Maximum Cleaner and select Uninstall.