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How to remove Gomaldef09.com?

March 3rd, 2009

What is Gomaldef09.com?

Gomaldef09.com is a browser hijacker promoting Malware Defender 2009. The parasite infects your PC with help of trojans and start redirecting your searches and pages opened to Rogue Spyware, including Malware Defender 2009, websites. Although the claim that you are infected are true, they fail to tell that they are the authors of all these infections. So you should block both Gomaldef09.com and malwaredefender2009.com in your hosts file.

Gomaldef09.com is Dangerous

Gomaldef09.com is a parasitic Browser Hijacker

Gomaldef09.com may show numerous annoying advertisements

Gomaldef09.com logs your internet browsing history

Gomaldef09.com will replace (hijack) your browser homepage

Gomaldef09.com may spread additional spyware

Gomaldef09.com violates your privacy and compromises your security

for Gomaldef09.com
removal

Manual Gomaldef09.com removal

Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Gomaldef09.com, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using automatic spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.

Stop these Gomaldef09.com processes:

%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\malwaredef.exe
%WINDOWS%\reged.exe
%WINDOWS%\spoolsystem.exe
%WINDOWS%\sys.com
%WINDOWS%\syscert.exe
%WINDOWS%\sysexplorer.exe
%WINDOWS%\system32\wcenter.exe

Disable these Gomaldef09.com DLL files::

%WINDOWS%\vmreg.dll
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\Drivers\hdddriver.dll
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\Drivers\vifwnhzqoe.dll

Remove these Gomaldef09.com Registry Entries:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{3F0691F1-70E6-44A9-938A-1DC356674878}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{8B2C743A-D44A-4A93-8233-ABEE8BF8ED62}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Malware Defender 2009
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Malware Defender 2009
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “updater”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “malwaredef”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad “DriversLoad”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellServiceObjectDelayLoad “HardwareDrivers”

Remove these Gomaldef09.com files:

%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\conf.cfg
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\malwaredef.exe
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\mbase.vdb
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\quarantine.vdb
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\queue.vdb
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\uninstall.exe
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\vbase.vdb
%Program Files%\Malware Defender 2009\quarantine
%WINDOWS%\reged.exe
%WINDOWS%\spoolsystem.exe
%WINDOWS%\sys.com
%WINDOWS%\syscert.exe
%WINDOWS%\sysexplorer.exe
%WINDOWS%\vmreg.dll
%WINDOWS%\system32\wcenter.exe
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\Drivers
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\win.exe
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\svchos.exe
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\t.id
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\Drivers\c.cgm
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\Drivers\hdddriver.dll
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index\Drivers\vifwnhzqoe.dll
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\install.exe

for Gomaldef09.com
removal

Gomaldef09.com is classified as a Browser Hijacker, which means its parasitic damage payload consists of hijacking your browser homepage, error page, or search page with its own, mostly a commercial site of its creators, forcing you to accumulate force hits to a particular website to make it more popular or by using pay-per-click sites to earn money.

The easiest way for a Browser Hijacker such as Gomaldef09.com to infect your computer is to exploit certain ActiveX controls and other security holes in your Internet Explorer browser. By browsing insecure websites on the internet, users may encounter various pop-ups, which secretly install Browser Hijackers like Gomaldef09.com on your computer once clicked upon.

As soon as Gomaldef09.com completes its operations, the overall browser stability and performance severely degrade, making it nearly impossible to surf the web normally.

How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Browser Hijacker such as Gomaldef09.com?

Slow internet connection: Browser Helper Objects are constantly using your internet connection to send your private information to remote servers, as well as receive ads and pop-ups from third party servers, which causes much slower internet connection speed and overall connection instability.

Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Browser Hijacker keeps track of your internet browsing habits, sending your browsing history data to remote servers, owned by third party companies that use this information to advertise their products via numerous pop-ups, toolbars, hijacked homepages and spam letters. All these undesirable advertising methods are used on the victims of Browser Hijackers.

How to remove Gomaldef09.com?

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