Remove PC Defender, PC Defender Removal
By Gina on January 11, 2010 | Rogue Antispyware
PC Defender is an application which should not be trusted or obtained. It tries to present itself as a real security tool meant for protecting the system from viruses and online threats although PC Defender is an infection itself. The fraud is distributed online at a number of corrupt websites which use trojans in order to download and install PC Defender. Victims of this scam are usually those who don't have a reliable system security software to protect them from PC Defender and similar infections.
The purpose of PC Defender is to sell itself as a security program for a certain price. It pretends performing security scans and generating warning messages. These should scare the users and make them believe that their computers have actually been infected with various security threats which can should removed by purchasing PC Defender. Unfortunately, all this is fake, PC Defender is the only infection that should be removed.
New processes created
Antispyware.exeproccheck.exe Learn how to remove malicious processes
New PC Defender registry entries created
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Def Group\AntispywareHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Userinit" = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,"C:\Program Files\Def Group\PC Defender\Antispyware.exe"" Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan your registry errors
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New files and directories created
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\PC Defender.lnkc:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC Defender
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\PC Defender\PC Defender.lnk
c:\Program Files\Def Group
c:\Program Files\Def Group\PC Defender
c:\Program Files\Def Group\PC Defender\Antispyware.exe
c:\Program Files\Def Group\PC Defender\hook.dll
c:\Program Files\Def Group\PC Defender\proccheck.exe Learn how to unregister malicious DLL files
How to remove PC Defender
To remove PC Defender manually you must block rogue PC Defender related websites, remove malicious processes and registry entries, unregister dlls and delete all malicious PC Defender files from your computer.
Please note: cleaning your computer is a difficult and dangerous task, manually editing registry entries and removing processes and files may cause serious damage to your system. We strongly recommend scanning your computer with one of the legitimate antispyware scanners.
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