Manual Removal Guide for Fraud.PersonalDefender

The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Fraud.PersonalDefender" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.

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Threat Details:

Categories:

• malware
• rogue

Description: Links (be careful!):
Removal Instructions:

Start Menu:

Please remove the following items from your start menu.
To check where they are pointing to, right-click them and choose "Properties" from the context menu appearing.

• Items named "Personal Defender 2009.lnk" and pointing to "*Defender*".

Autorun:

Please use Spybot-S&D, RunAlyzer or msconfig.exe to remove the following autorun entries.

• Entries named "asus32" and pointing to "*Application Data\Google*".
• Entries named "Personal Defender 2009" and pointing to "*".
• Entries named "Personal Defender 2009" and pointing to "?<$PROGRAMFILES>\Personal Defender 2009\pdefendr.exe?".

Files:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these files.

• The file at "<$APPDATA>\Google\sccmsk.dll".
• The file at "<$APPDATA>\Google\mupd1_2_1711951.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMS>\Personal Defender 2009\Personal Defender 2009.lnk".
• A file with an unknown location named "personaldefender2009.exe".
• The file at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Personal Defender 2009\pdefendr.exe".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Fraud.PersonalDefender uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify files!

Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D to remove them.

Folders:

Please use Windows Explorer or another file manager of your choice to locate and delete these folders.

• The directory at "<$PROGRAMS>\Personal Defender 2009".
• The directory at "<$PROGRAMFILES>\Personal Defender 2009".

Make sure you set your file manager to display hidden and system files. If Fraud.PersonalDefender uses rootkit technologies, use our RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.
You will have to use a global search for files without a name specified. Be extra careful, because just the name might not be enough to identify folders!

Registry:

You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.

• Delete the registry key "PDefender" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\".

If Fraud.PersonalDefender uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer, RootAlyzer or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins.

Final Words:

If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,

1. Please read these instructions before requesting assistance,
2. Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.