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Personal Defender

Alias: Personal Defender

Description: Personal Defender is another rogue anti-spyware application which may be secretly installed by a trojan or manually downloaded from one of many fraudulent Fake Scanner Sites. Once installed, Personal Defender performs a system scan and displays exaggerated fake results similar to:

Threat type:

Hijacker - A Hijacker is a software application that takes control of your browser's settings. Usually it changes your home page and redirects it to some unknown site or modifies your search settings. It prevents you from changing back your browser's settings. An infected browser usually operates much slower.

Ransomware - Ransomware is a software application that infects a computer and asks for money to have the infection removed.

Trojan - A Trojans or Trojan Horse is any programs that installs itself secretly, quite often with sinister intent. Once installed, the trojan author (hacker) can gain complete control of the infected PC. Trojans are usually designed to steal sensitive information and/or destroy the system. Trojans can be distributed as unsolicited email attachments, or bundled with freeware and shareware programs.

Advice: Remove This is a very high risk threat and should be removed immediately as to prevent harm to your computer and / or to protect your privacy.

Detection:
SpyNoMore removes Personal Defender: Yes

Threat risk: High Risk

Very dangerous malware. Can log user's keyboard activity and take snapshots of the user's screen. Uses stealth installation and removal is very difficult. Category includes spyware programs, adware programs and trojans.

Symptoms:

Icons appear in your Windows Tray.

Pop-up messages claiming that your computer is infected.

Personal Defender may have been be installed without your consent via a trojan.

Access to certain websites is blocked and a fake warning page is displayed instead.

Browser could be opening to about:blank.

Personal Defender Signature Details: The following information includes some of the standard signatures associated with this spyware threat. Please do not attempt to manually remove these items from your computer; Removing these items incorrectly or partially can cause your computer to experience critical errors, prevent your computer from restarting or cause loss of Internet connectivity. Should you be infected with Personal Defender, you can clean your computer by downloading SpyNoMore now.

Running Process Signatures:
Program Files\PDF\pdf.exe

File Signatures:
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Registered Dll (Dynamic Link Library) Signatures:
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Internet Explorer Integration: Yes

Folder Signatures:
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Registry Signatures:
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SpyNoMore Collected Residual File Signatures:
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