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How to remove Personal Guard 2009?

September 9th, 2009

What is Personal Guard 2009?

Personal Guard 2009 claims to be the best security program out on the web, but in reality in is a rogue anti-spyware program – no more and no less. This fake spyware remover is nothing out of the ordinary: it usually enters the system using trojans, such as Vundo, and relies on misleading advertising to trick users into purchasing it’s “full version”.

Once inside, this parasite will flood the user with popups and fake system notifications, carrying the false information that the system is infected. The real idea behind these popups is to scare the user and drop a link to the purchase page of Personal Guard 2009 in the process. In addition to the popups, Personal Guard 2009 also performs fake system scans, which produce falsified results filled with false positives, or marking files the parasite itself created, as threats.

There really is nothing to gain from owning Personal Guard 2009 (which costs around $50, by the way), other than unwanted popups, a decrease in system performance, and a little less money to go around. Do NOT download or buy this malicious program and remove it immediatelly upon detection.


Personal Guard 2009 is Extremely dangerous

arrow Personal Guard 2009 is a corrupt Anti-Spyware program
arrow Personal Guard 2009 may spread via Trojans
arrow Personal Guard 2009 may display fake security messages
arrow Personal Guard 2009 may install additional spyware to your computer
arrow Personal Guard 2009 may repair its files, spread or update by itself
arrow Personal Guard 2009 violates your privacy and compromises your security
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Personal Guard 2009 screenshots


Personal Guard 2009 screenshot

Manual Personal Guard 2009 removal


Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove Personal Guard 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 Guard 2009 processes:
Remove these Personal Guard 2009 Registry Entries:
It is impossible to list all file names and locations of modern parasites. You can identify remaining parasites, other Personal Guard 2009 infected files and get help in Personal Guard 2009 removal by using free Spyware Doctor scanner. It comes with free real-time protection module that helps preventing Personal Guard 2009 and similar threats.

Personal Guard 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 Guard 2009 can help you to remove it after you download the trial version. As soon as the victim downloads Personal Guard 2009 trial version, it pretends to scan your computer and shows a grossly exaggerated amount of non-existent errors. Then, Personal Guard 2009 offers to buy the full version to fix these false errors. If the user agrees, Personal Guard 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 Guard 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 Guard 2009, which is another way for Rogue Anti-Spyware to spread itself.

Most of rogue Anti-Spyware, such as Personal Guard 2009, is nearly impossible to remove manually.


How to tell if your PC has been infected by a Rogue Anti-Spyware such as Personal Guard 2009?

Numerous undesirable and annoying pop-ups: A typical Rogue Anti-Spyware parasite 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 Rogue Anti-Spyware.
Changed or new icons: Sometimes, Rogue Anti-Spyware installs unwanted software to a victim’s PC without user’s knowledge and consent. This may lead to slower PC performance and stability, as well as more unwanted programs you can't remove.

Rogue Anti-Spyware

  1. William Hinshaw
    September 18th, 2009 at 23:26 | #1

    This little bugger likes to drop hidden autorun.exe and autorun.inf on flash drives. It will overwrite these files if present on the flash drive already.

  2. Roman
    October 31st, 2009 at 07:44 | #2

    Hi my names Roman and i’ve been trying to remove personal guard 2009 of 7 hours straight and i’ve tried EVERYTHING, i’ve tried using spybot,malware bytes,and i’ve even tried to remove it myself but it keeps restoring itself and i don’t have the money to spend on spy doctor,can anyone help?

  3. omg
    October 31st, 2009 at 23:07 | #3

    omg i need help too roman!

  4. Tressy
    November 1st, 2009 at 00:45 | #4

    Roman and OMG I am in the same boat. Please help someone! I am unemployed, don’t have the money to spend on spydoctor either and need my compter to job search! I have tried the manual steps to no avail. I can’t get malwarebytes to install. If either of you can, I think that might be our answer.

  5. kona
    November 1st, 2009 at 14:48 | #5

    After the first reboot I was no longer able to open my internet browser so I cannot even dl any of these antispyware programs to clean PG2009 out of my system. I keep getting a Trends PC-cillian notification that winsc.exe has a virus so it gets quarantined. So how can I get it to my computer?

  6. lance
    November 6th, 2009 at 17:00 | #6

    just went through this yesterday and finally got it cleaned after a couple of hours…the trick is to download (I am trying to find the site now) and randomly renamed executable for Malwarebytes. once I got that the whole thing worked…also several of the sites say run the quick scan…Malwarebytes wasn’t completely effective until I ran a deep scan. also one last thing…restart do not completely shut down…if you flush the cash the file that need to be deleted on reboot will be flushed from the que and you are back to square one.

  7. den
    November 9th, 2009 at 06:12 | #7

    Use McAfee supdat 5796. It can remove personal guard 2009.
    Although personal guard 2009 will restore one minute later, but McAfee will
    keep deleting it. Not a completely remove.

  8. BarbieGee
    December 13th, 2009 at 13:14 | #8

    Once this program was installed on my friend’s PC it placed a registry entry to start up upon boot-up his computer and proceeded to scan for viruses. It is all a false scan. At this time none of the desktop icons were allowed to load, he could not exit this scan program and none of the HELP functions of Windows would work. All are locked out somehow and the program claims that ‘help’ is infected with a worm. We used a Search and Destroy program in Safe Mode to try to clean the computer. It did NOT work. I booted his computer into Safe Mode with a C: prompt and entered a command (%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe )to go to RESTORE. I then restored the computer to an earlier date, before this malware was installed. That fixed the computer. RESTORE is not available in the standard Safe Mode and it was also locked out when the PC was booted normally. A command had to be entered manually.

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