Win 7 Defender

Win 7 Defender Description

Win 7 Defender may be promoted as a cure for spyware, viruses and other types of PC threats, but Win 7 Defender’s real functions don’t have anything to do with detection or deletion of any type of threat to your computer. Like the other types of scamware that Win 7 Defender is cloned from, Win 7 Defender uses fraudulent system scans and pop-ups to urge you to buy its fake anti-malware services – under the threat that if you don’t do this, your PC will suffer under the ongoing ministrations of various PC threats. SpywareRemove.com malware analysts, however, advise that you delete Win 7 Defender from your computer as soon as its presence is noticed, since Win 7 Defender’s very presence is a security risk due to Win 7 Defender’s creation of junk files and fake Windows components. Ideally, removing Win 7 Defender should be done with competent anti-malware software, despite Win 7 Defender’s potential-inclusion of (fake) removal tools.

Cutting Through Win 7 Defender’s Propaganda to Its Real Features

Win 7 Defender, although it looks and feels like a genuine Windows-friendly product, doesn’t have any of the features that you would expect a real anti-malware program to have. However, Win 7 Defender does possess a good facsimile of these features in the form of simulated system scans and inaccurate pop-up warnings that display fake information about your PC.

Unfortunately, even this flood of fake information isn’t the limit of Win 7 Defender’s capabilities, as Win 7 Defender is also likely to:

• Create trash files that are harmless for your PC (except for the clutter) and label them as the byproduct of nonexistent PC threats.
• Launch itself without your consent – typically to run fake system scans.
• Load an applet that imitates the appearance of your Windows Security Center – but this fake Security Center will only redirect you to Win 7 Defender’s site when you try to click on it.

Why Win 7 Defender is Just One of a Legion Against Your PC

Win 7 Defender may not mention its brethren, but SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have traced Win 7 Defender’s ancestry back to a multitude of nigh-identical scamware products from the Rogue:Win32/FakeRean subgroup. In many cases, these fake anti-malware applications will attempt to present themselves in the form of products that are sponsored by Microsoft, such as Vista AntiMalware 2010, Win 7 Antispyware 2010, Win 7 Smart Security 2010, XP Guardian 2010, Vista Home Security 2011 or XP Total Security 2011. Other variants of the FakeRean scamware may use different titles, however – examples that are unlinked to specific Windows versions include Total PC Defender, Home Antivirus 2010 and Desktop Defender 2010.

All variants of FakeRean scamware should be removed by dedicated anti-malware scanners, although they may resist deletion until you deactivate them (by using Safe Mode or other types of baseline anti-malware strategies that are available in Windows). Deleting Win 7 Defender with proper software, however, should result in a fully-restored and unharmed PC. Win 7 Defender, like all types of FakeRean programs, is unable to attack non-Windows operating systems due to making various Windows components complicit in its attack strategies.

Win 7 Defender Automatic Detection Tool (Recommended)

Visual & GUI Characteristics

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

• The following newly produced Registry Values are:
  HKEY..\..\{Value}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe\shell\open\command "(Default)" = ""%CommonAppData%\pcdfdata\.exe" /ex "%1" %*"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "pcdfsvc" = "%CommonAppData%\pcdfdata\.exe /min"HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\pcdfdata

Additional Information

• The following messages's were detected:
  

  #	Message
  1	System Security Alert Unknown program is scanning your system registry right now! Identity theft detected.
  2	System Security Alert Vulnerabilities found Background scan for security breaches was finished. Serious issues were detected. Safeguard your system against exploits, malware and viruses right now by activating Proactive Defense.
  3	Win 7 Defender Firewall Alert Firefox.exe is infected with Trojan-Clicker.Js.Agent.op. Private data can be stolen by third parties, including credit card details and passwords.

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