How to remove Pope Green Defender
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 3:10 amHome » Rogue Antispyware » Pope Green Defender
Pope Green Defender description
Pope Green Defender is another useless program trying to get your money by pretending to be a legitimate security application. It generates enormous amounts of counterfeit alerts; if clicked upon, the pop-ups urge to pay for using Pope Green Defender. Is the program worth your money? It’s definitely not worth a dime. PopeGreenDefender is a computer parasite and it’s not capable of working as a security tool.
Annoying pop-ups is just one of several “features” PopeGreen Defender has. It also halts the infected system and hijacks web browser. Pope Green Defender may block security programs to prevent people from deleting the malware.
Get rid of Pope Green Defender
Pope Green Defender is a Rogue Antispyware software
How to manually remove Pope Green Defender
To remove Pope Green Defender spyware you must block Pope Green Defender sites, stop and remove processes, unregister DLL files, search and delete all other Pope Green Defender files and registry utility. Follow the Pope Green Defender detection and removal instructions below.
The most typical software removal method is to remove Pope Green Defender by using "Add or Remove Programs" service. However there may be hidden Pope Green Defender files, running processes and registries in your computer, so Pope Green Defender may recreate all other files after reboot.
Pope Green Defender manual removal instructions
Locate and delete Pope Green Defender registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Pope Green Defender"
Read more how to delete Pope Green Defender registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Pope Green Defender
We strongly recommend you to use spyware remover to track Pope Green Defender and automaticaly remove Pope Green Defender processes, registries and files as well as other spyware threats.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
In addition to all other suspicious elements, add this one: a $29.95 charge to Pope Software appeared on my bank account. I have NO IDEA how it got there. Even more odd: the charge itself included a phone number, which I called. Without ever speaking to a rep, I was able to quickly press 1 for a refund, which appeared in my account almost immediately. I called again to see if I could access a rep who could tell me where the charge originated.
No can do. The number is automation only, with the sole purpose of providing refunds. My bank had never heard of the company or this practice.
This spells outright fraud, but they’re avoiding criminal prosecution by providing for the refunds this way. I never consented to the charge, I’ve never heard of Pope Green Defender and have not seen it on any of my computers, and only found out it existed after fairly extensive research into domain name registrations. The charge shows up as Pope Software LLC in NY. Please note that I am *VERY* careful with my card number.
I’m filing a complaint with the NY Better Business Bureau for the unauthorized account access. I’ve cancelled the bank card and reported them to my bank.
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December 1st, 2009 at 8:58 am
Just like Kristen, my debit card was hit with a $29.95 charge from Pope Software even though I never went to their Web site nor clicked on any popup regarding a virus infection. I too, have filed a complaint with the New York Attorney General’s office and am pursuing recourse through my bank.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am
Never asked for it – don’t want it. It popped up on my Visa statement??????? Really annoying – I will call the credit union to have the charge removed. Their phone message just says mailbox is full.
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December 21st, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Same here, 29.95 on discover card. Called number and hit recording asking for name, phone number and email account. Called discover and protested, they reversed and will follow up.
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