PurityScan is an adware. It scans your computer for pornographic files and generates number of targeted or untargeted pop-up ads when browsing Web sites. PurityScan has an automatic update feature and may install third party products.

Follow these steps to remove PurityScan from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.

1. Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
   programfilesdir+\purityscan\purityscan.exe
   systemroot+\system32\winservn.exe
   ps_uninstaller.exe
   purityscan2.exe
   winservn.exe
    
2. Remove AutoRun Reference: Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.
    
3. Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run\contentservice
    
4. Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:
   programfilesdir+\purityscan\purityscan.exe
   systemroot+\system32\winservn.exe
   ps_uninstaller.exe
   purityscan2.exe
   winservn.exe
    
5. Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:
   profilepath+\menu start\programma's\purityscan
   profilepath+\start menu\programs\purityscan
   programfilesdir+\purityscan

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