How to remove Smart Defender Pro

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 5:35 am

Smart Defender Pro description

Smart Defender Pro is the latest “version” of Virus Remover Professional fraud. SmartDefender Pro is a rogue security tool just like its predecessor.

SmartDefenderPro

Smart Defender Pro is distributed in fraudulent ways. It is installed secretly by Vundo and other trojans (learn how to remove Vundo trojan). SmartDefenderPro is also promoted on several fraudulent websites.

When installed, Smart DefenderPro displays fabricated security alerts and system scan reports to make an image of a functional anti-spyware program. It is not actually able to scan a computer or to detect infections. Smart Defender Pro itself is a malware.

Get rid of Smart Defender Pro

Smart Defender Pro is a Rogue Antispyware software

How to manually remove Smart Defender Pro

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

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

Smart Defender Pro manual removal instructions

Stop and remove Smart Defender Pro processes:
smrtdefp.exe Read more how to kill Smart Defender Pro processes

Locate and delete Smart Defender Pro registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Smart Defender PRO
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Smart Defender PRO" Read more how to delete Smart Defender Pro registry entries
Download RegistryBooster 2010 to scan errors caused by Smart Defender Pro

Detect and delete other Smart Defender Pro files:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\Smart Defender PRO.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Defender PRO
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Smart Defender PRO\Smart Defender PRO.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Smart Defender PRO
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Smart Defender PRO\smrtdefp.exe
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temp\smrtdefp.exe

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


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6 Responses to

Smart Defender Pro

  1. Beth Sak
    July 15th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    I want to get everything about Smart Defender PRO off my computer but I”m terrible at
    tryng to figure out these instructions. I’m 75, live on social security and not in the best of health. I don’t need all this garbage popping up on my computer and trying to sell me something or my computer will be in a world of trouble. Can you help me get this off my computer in instructions that a senior citizen, who was born a long time before computers, can understand. I’m notsure wahat you mean by website, Is that Yahoo? thanks for any help you can give me. Beeth Sak

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    Luciana Reply:
    July 15th, 2009 at 10:46 pm

    I know the manual removal may look complicated. There’s another way to remove Smart Defender Pro too. You can run anti-spyware scan. I recommend Spyware Doctor, but you can find other security tools on other websites.

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    Teddie Reply:
    July 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    I’m with Beth. I don’t know what you mean by website either.

    I have McAfee Firewall, Automatic Updates and Virus Protection. Will any of them remove Smart Defender Pro? Is there a cost for Spyware Doctor?

    I’m glad to know I’m not the only person who fell for this. I thought it was a message from Windows Security Center. I immediately removed it from my Programs list but continue to get pop-ups every few minutes.

    Thank you for any help. – Teddie

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    Luciana Reply:
    July 19th, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    McAfee is not meant to deal with fraudulent programs such as Smart Defender Pro. You need antispyware to delete infections like this. Spyware Doctor is paid, but you can use the free version to locate malicious files and delete them manually when you know where the files are located.

  2. Teddie
    July 21st, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    My pop-ups disappeared on Sunday, July 18! I don’t know why. I did not run an anti-spyware scan. Sunday morning I ran a third McAfee security scan. I left the scan running with pop-ups while I was at church. When I came home, a message on the computer said something like, “Restart computer to protect it.” I restarted it, and the pop-ups were gone. The Windows Defender icon, with a red X on it, was at the bottom of my screen.

    Before I found this Web site and posts, I tried everything the Help menu suggested to block pop-ups. Maybe it just took one more scan after I checked everything. I made sure Windows Defender was turned on, but I assumed it was not doing any good. Now the Windows Defender icon comes and goes at the bottom of the screen.

    I don’t know what happened but thought you would be interested.

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  3. Penny
    August 1st, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    Thanks for your help with the manual removal instructions. It worked! and was very easy. I did not want to download another application on my computer and the other sites offering help with removing Smart Defender Pro required downloading their application. How do I know if they weren’t frauds trying to load another virus onto my computer?
    Your instructions were detailed and the best. Thanks Again!

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