Comments on: Personal Defender 2009 http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:37:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Renee http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-14365 Renee Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:42:02 +0000 http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-14365 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. 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.

]]> By: admin http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-13126 admin Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:39:12 +0000 http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-13126 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. 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.

]]> By: geekapolluza http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-13121 geekapolluza Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:05:37 +0000 http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-13121 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. 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.

]]> By: admin http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-7014 admin Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:17:22 +0000 http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-7014 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. 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.

]]> By: Bill http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-7013 Bill Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:25:40 +0000 http://www.2-viruses.com/remove-personal-defender-2009#comment-7013 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. 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.

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