What is PC Privacy Shield?

PC Privacy Shield is software application developed by ShieldApps. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 66.67% of installations running this operating system. PC Privacy Shield's installer is typically 8.00 MB in size and installs around 25 files. The most common release is 2.7.1 with 44.44% of all installations currently using this version.

PC Privacy Shield is most popular in the United States with 89.29% of installations residing in this country.

PC Privacy Shield adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:

TaskTools.exe is scheduled as a task named 'PCPrivacyShield_SkipUac'.
PCPrivacyShield.exe is scheduled as a task named 'PCPrivacyShield_Popup' (runs daily at 5:00 PM).
InstAct.exe is scheduled as a task named 'PCPrivacyShield_Master'.

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

PcPrivacyShield.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named PCPrivacyShield_Start.

Registry entries:

PCPrivacyShield.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'PCPrivacyShield' and executes as "C:\Program Files\PC Privacy Shield\PCPrivacyShield.exe" minimized.

Software Details

URL:

https://shieldapps.com/products/pc-privacy-shield/pc-privacy-shield-faq

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\PC Privacy Shield\

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{C3F11253-5D97-491F-BD33-A215C72BD912}

Size:

8.00 MB

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