How to Remove Total PC Defender Rogue Anti-Spyware?
Total PC Defender Information:
Total PC Defender is a fake antivirus program which is from the same family as Desktop Defender 2010. By exploiting some loopholes of the firewall and antivirus defense of your computer system, Total PC Defenderinfiltrate without your knowledge. Coming into the system as the trial version, Total PC Defender runs its scanners and displays misleading security alerts and reports false system security threats to make you think that your computer is infected with Trojans, worms and other malicious software. Of course, scan results are false and pre-determined in advance. Then Total PC Defender will ask you to pay for a full version of the program in order to remove the infections. Please read Total PC Defender 2010 removal instructions carefully and remove this virus from your computer as soon as possible.
Total PC Defender Screenshot:
Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it’s suggested that you backup your registry before manually removing Total PC Defender Rogue Anti-Spyware. And double check the entries that you are going to delete, or your computer can’t work for missing some files.
Step 1: End its process by openning Task Manager.
Total PC Defender.exe
Step 2: The files you need to delete:
Total PC Defender.exe Total PC Defender.lnk
Step 3: The registry entries you need to delete:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystemDisableTaskMgr
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesSystemDisableTaskMgr
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunTotal PC Defender
Step 4: The directories you need to delete:
C:Program FilesTotal PC Defender
%UserProfile%Start MenuTotal PC Defender
%UserProfile%Application DataMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick Launch
%UserProfile%Desktop
Please, be aware that manual removal of Total PC Defender Rogue Anti-Spyware is a cumbersome task and can not always ensure complete removal of the malware, due to the fact that some files might be hidden or may get reanimated automatically afterwards. Moreover, lack of the required skills and even the slightest deviation from the instructions may lead to irreparable system damage. That’s why it’s strongly recommended automatic removal of Total PC Defender Rogue Anti-Spyware, which will save your time and enable avoiding any system malfunctions and guarantee the needed result.
Automatic Total PC Defender Rogue Anti-Spyware Removal:
1. Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 Key before Windows launches. Use the arrow keys to select the “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then hit ENTER Key to continue.
2. Download Spyware Cease (Spyware Cease review), install it and update its database to the latest. After that, restart your computer so as to make Spyware Cease fully functional. Repeat Step 1 into Safe Mode and run an Online Scan of your computer so that Spyware Cease can detect all potential malware in your system.
NOTE: If you have problem installing Spyware Cease, you can download this correction script, unzip it and then double click to run it. It will correct your registry settings that the virus has modified. Then double click the program and finish the installation.
3. After the Online Scan finishes, click “Details” for the malware detected to make sure that your important data are not infected and removed. Ignore or select the scan result and click “Remove” to remove the threats. Reboot your computer and let Spyware Cease delete all detected virus.
4. Click to repair your corrupted registry
Why should you need to repair the registry?
As we all know, virus and Trojans modify and destroy system registry and make the computer malfunction so that the computer will not perform normally. Even if the virus and Trojans are removed, the registry is still destroyed or modified, so the computer still has problems. That’s the very reason why you need to repair the registry. At the meanwhile, some virus and Trojans leave some DLL files in the registry and this will cause strange DLL errors and affect the computer performance.
To make your computer run as perfectly as before or much faster than before:
1. Download and install Multi-Awarded Registry Tool.
2. Run a full scan of your registry.
3. Click “Repair Problems” and repair all errors detected.
After these 3 easy steps, your computer will run much faster than before within minutes!
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Carl on May 17th, 2010
nice guide. thanks.