How to remove PC Defender

PC Defender description

PC Defender is a rogue anti-spyware application. It is a new variant of earlier PC Defender 2008 fraud.

PC Defender usually appears on a computer without permission of the user. It is installed secretly by trojans. PCDefender is designed to look like a security tool, but the functions and intents of the program are fraudulent. It generates counterfeit security reports and warns people about numerous infections. All the threats “detected” by PC Defender are made-up. The notifications are meant to scare people into buying the fraudulent program. Avoid PCDefender at all costs.

Get rid of PC Defender

• Manual step-by-step PC Defender removal
• Automatic easy PC Defender detection with Spyware Doctor
• Anti spyware Software. Spyware Doctor Review.

PC Defender is a Rogue Antispyware software

• PC Defender is installed without your permission.
• PC Defender reputation online is terrible.
• The official website of PC Defender is poorly built and lacks basic information.
• The payments website of PC Defender is suspicious.
• Performance of the program is poor.

How to manually remove PC Defender

To remove PC Defender spyware you must block PC Defender sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other PC Defender files and registry utility. Follow the PC Defender detection and removal instructions below.

The most typical software removal method is to remove PC Defender by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden PC Defender files, running processes and registries in your computer, so PC Defender may recreate all other files after reboot.

PC Defender manual removal instructions

Stop and remove PC Defender processes:
Antispyware.exe
proccheck.exe Read more how to kill PC Defender processes

Locate and delete PC Defender registry entries:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Def Group\Antispyware
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Userinit" = "C:\WINDOWS\system32\userinit.exe,"C:\Program Files\Def Group\PC Defender\Antispyware.exe"" Read more how to delete PC Defender registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by PC Defender

Search and unregister PC Defender DLL libraries:
hook.dll Read more how to unregister PC Defender DLL files

Detect and delete other PC Defender files:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\PC Defender.lnk
c:\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

We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track PC Defender and automaticaly remove PC Defender processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.

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1. MikeB
   February 26th, 2010 at 5:48 am

   Careful telling people to unregister a dll. Doing so actually loads the dll and executes a built-in function. That function could easily be mis-used to do something else in order to protect the program (or worse!). A safer method would be to have people use the regedit commandline to delete the key; unfortunately, I don’t have the syntax handy nor do I know the CLSID used by hook.dll or I’d post it myself.

   Otherwise, great work!

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