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Spyware is computer software that collects personal information about users without their informed consent. The term, coined in 1995 but not widely used for another five years, is often used interchangeably with adware and malware. See... [more]

Spyware is computer software that collects personal information about users without their informed consent. The term, coined in 1995 but not widely used for another five years, is often used interchangeably with adware and malware. See articles and get information about spyware, and how to remove it, here.

Remove Perfect Defender 2009 - Perfect Defender 2009 Removal Instructions

Perfect Defender 2009 is the latest counterfeit antispyware program, successor of Personal Defender 2008. Perfect Defender 2009 will use Trojan horse to install itself onto your computer without any notification and users approval. Once installed, Perfect Defender 2009 will perform system scan and list a variety of not-existent problems, generate annoying pop-ups, fake security alerts and warnings. The main purpose of that alerts is to trick computer users into purchasing full version of this scamware. Also Perfect Defender 2009 can show bogus screensavers, hijack your web browser, install other malware. So we advise you to remove Perfect Defender 2009 manually or using automatical removal tool (Spyware Doctor + antivirus).

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: Unknown

Threat Level: Critical

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Perfect Defender 2009 Automatical Removal Tool

How to remove Perfect Defender 2009 manually:
It's possible to remove Perfect Defender 2009 manually , but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.


The files to be deleted:

c:\Program Files\Perfect Defender 2009
c:\Program Files\Perfect Defender 2009\dbbase.div
c:\Program Files\Perfect Defender 2009\pd.dll
c:\Program Files\Perfect Defender 2009\pdfndr.exe
c:\Program Files\Perfect Defender 2009\pdmonitor.exe
c:\Program Files\Perfect Defender 2009\UnInstall.exe
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Perfect Defender 2009.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Perfect Defender 2009
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Perfect Defender 2009\Perfect Defender 2009.lnk
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Perfect Defender 2009\Uninstall Perfect Defender 2009.lnk


Remove registry entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PDefender
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Perfect Defender 2009"


Please be careful because manual removal of Perfect Defender 2009 may seriously damage operational system and sensitive data. Also there is a big possibility of incomplete removal, because some files could be hidden and program could re-install itself after you delete files and registry entries. So we strongly recommend you to use automatical removal tool.
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