How to remove Personal Defender 2009?
What is Personal Defender 2009?
Personal Defender 2009 is another scam that pretends to be computer security tool. However, this one is more dangerous than regular fake anti-spywares. PersonalDefender 2009 employs trojan to trick people into downloading the program and uses misleading tactics to gain a purchase. The trojan is able to fabricate Windows Firewall message, which if clicked upon installs Personal Defender 2009. The malware continues to generate fake infection alerts. The warnings are identical to alerts loaded by Windows operating system, so recognizing the scam is very difficult task. If user clicks on the popup, he is informed that infections can only be deleted by PersonalDefender2009. The strategy is fraudulent because Personal Defender 2009 is not a security tool and it is usually the one infection on board a machine.
PersonalDefender 2009 loads itself automatically when computer is turned on. It imitates computer scan and reports many threats detected. Do not trust a single message loaded by PersonalDefender2009! It reports fake infections and demands paying $49.95 for removal. It also redirects web browser to defender-review.com or personaldefender2009.com. Block these websites using HOSTS file and remove Personal Defender 2009 with no hesitation.
Personal Defender 2009 is Extremely dangerous
Personal Defender 2009 is a corrupt Anti-Spyware program Personal Defender 2009 may spread via Trojans Personal Defender 2009 may display fake security messages Personal Defender 2009 may install additional spyware to your computer Personal Defender 2009 may repair its files, spread or update by itself Personal Defender 2009 violates your privacy and compromises your security
for Personal Defender 2009 detection
Note: Spyware Doctor trial provides detection of parasite like Personal Defender 2009 and assists in its removal for free. You can remove detected files, processes and registry entries yourself or purchase a full version.
Manual Personal Defender 2009 removal
Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Personal Defender 2009, 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 Spyware Doctor or other malware and spyware removal applications found on 2-viruses.com.
Stop these Personal Defender 2009 processes:
Disable these Personal Defender 2009 DLL files::
Remove these Personal Defender 2009 Registry Entries:
Remove these Personal Defender 2009 files:
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other Personal Defender 2009 infected files and get help in Personal Defender 2009 removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing Personal Defender 2009 and similar threats.
Personal Defender 2009 is classified as Rogue Anti-Spyware. After infecting a user’s system, it proceeds to scare its victim into buying the “product” by displaying fake security messages, stating that your computer is infected with spyware and only Personal Defender 2009 can help you to remove it after you download the trial version. As soon as the victim downloads Personal Defender 2009 trial version, it pretends to scan your computer and shows a grossly exaggerated amount of non-existent errors. Then, Personal Defender 2009 offers to buy the full version to fix these false errors. If the user agrees, Personal Defender 2009 does not only fix the errors, but it also takes the user’s money and may even install additional spyware into the victim’s computer.
Some Rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Personal Defender 2009, may offer users to buy it after the victim clicks on a banner or a pop-up while surfing the internet. Usually, a Trojan is installed to a victim’s computer after clicking on the advertisement. It then proceeds to download or even install Personal Defender 2009, which is another way for Rogue Anti-Spyware to spread itself.
Most of rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Personal Defender 2009, is nearly impossible to remove manually.
That was helpful, but how do you exterminate the initial trojans? I knew better than to go to the website, as I have heard about these lately. However, unlike the win32.fung trojan, I cannot find useful and/or accurate information on deleting the win32.netsky.q trojan.
The trojans shown by personal defender 2009 are not real.
However, you might have some in your system, planted together with personal defender fake alerts. I recommend scanning with spyware doctor or malwarebytes anti-malware. If nothing found, wait for 1 week, update definitions and scan again.
I discovered a new variant tonight on a friend’s machine. Looking in the registry, it referred to an apparently random directory name in the user profile. The EXE also appeared to have a short random alphabetic name. Malwarebytes said it removed it, but it came right back on the next reboot. I dug into the registry and ripped out the keys, and found and deleted the files.
After removing it and rebooting, the infection appeared to be gone, but IE wouldn’t display any web pages, although the internet would connect and there was data traffic. The reason it wouldn’t display any web pages was that the browser connection settings had been modified to point to a proxy server at 127.0.0.1, which I believe means that a web server had been installed on the computer and was intended to act as a proxy for all web pages, possibly scanning them for important information such as userid’s and passwords and then sending that information to a remote recipient. I don’t know if the web server was installed to a different location from the Personal Defender EXE; it is possible that it was, because I could see traffic even though there were no programs that I knew of that were using the web, even in the background. Possibly the configuration was faulty and the web server didn’t function properly, and this is why I noticed it. I believe that IF it functioned correctly, then I would have believed the infection was gone, while a very insidious part of it remained, silently siphoning off userid’s and passwords for websites.
After you have cleaned up the infection, be sure to check your browser’s connection settings and verify that it does not point to a proxy server at 127.0.0.1, using port 5555. I could disable this usage of the proxy server, but I couldn’t convince myself that there still wasn’t a rouge web server installed somewhere on the PC functioning and active, as I could see a lot of network traffic when there should have been none.
To clear up this part of the infection I used a system restore point to two days prior.
Good luck with particularly nasty infection.
geekapolluza : Your friend would have avoided problem if he would have malware remover with Real time protection (like malwarebytes commercial version or spyware doctor). Restoring to 2 days will not close security hole nor it would remove older infections which might lay dormant for some time.
I don’t even know how it got on my laptop. I am the only user and I didn’t download anything. It has my laptop so messed up. Can someone PLEASE help.