Windows Defender 2010 is a rogue antimalware application that imitates the well-known and widely used Windows Defender and thereby tries to trick users in to purchasing a software license. This rogue application reaches the user’s system via Trojans that get installed from fake online PC scanners, and get downloaded along with fake video codecs. Once installed, Windows Defender 2010 loads as a startup program and performs a large amount of fake scans on the system, returning false results that state that the computer is severely infected with dangerous malware. As its user interface is also extremely similar to the Windows Defender application developed by Microsoft for Windows, users are duped into believing that the claims made by Windows Defender 2010 are correct. The aim of all this activity is to try and get users to pay for the ‘full’ version of the software by claiming that the currently installed ‘trial’ version is insufficient to remove the detected ‘threats’. However, the so-called ‘full’ version of Windows Defender 2010 is completely incapable of scanning or cleaning any computer system just as the ‘trial’ version is.
Windows Defender 2010
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Windows Defender 2010 Manual Removal Procedures
The first step is to stop the following running processes. Not all may be running
- Desktop Defender 2010.exe
- gedx_ae09.exe
- kgn.exe
- kilslmd.exe
The second step in Windows Defender 2010 removal is to delete the following files:
Windows XP:
- %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Desktop\Windows Defender 2010.lnk
- %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Defender 2010
Windows 7/Windows Vista
- Users\%User%\Desktop\Windows Defender 2010.lnk
- Users\%User%\\Start Menu\Programs\Windows Defender 2010
Windows Defender 2010 Registry Removal Procedures
File removal alone is not sufficient to properly remove Windows Defender 2010. It is required to delete the following keys and settings from the registry to complete Windows Defender 2010 removal:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windows Defender 2010
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Windows Defender 2010
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “Windows Defender 2010?
Once these steps have been completed, you have successfully completed Windows Defender 2010 removal.
Windows Defender 2010 Directories:
- c:\Program Files\Desktop Defender 2010
Outside Resources:
http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-windows-defender-2010.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100120130118AAWDjP4
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