Fraud.Defense Center

Posted: October 13, 2011

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:

Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	7

First Seen:	October 13, 2011
Last Seen:	October 21, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Fraud.Defense Center is a fake anti-virus and security program that, like other forms of fraudulent security programs, advertises nonexistent security features, while Fraud.Defense Center actually creates problems for your PC. Attacks by Fraud.Defense Center can include inaccurate system alerts, blocked software, browser hijacks that force you towards the Fraud.Defense Center website, moved files, locked wallpaper images and other forms of changed system settings. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers strongly discourage tolerating Fraud.Defense Center's existence on your PC due to the above problems, but any sufficiently-powerful anti-malware program can remove Fraud.Defense Center if the appropriate safety procedures are followed.

Fraud.Defense Center: A Central Program of Fake Defense

Typical Fraud.Defense Center infections can occur after you've visited a website that installs Fraud.Defense Center without your permission or after you've interacted with a fake system scanner that requests that you install a recommended form of a security program. Avoiding suspicious sites, files from untrustworthy sources and poor browser security settings (especially settings that allow unauthorized sites to run arbitrary Flash or JavaScript scripts) will help to lower the chance of Fraud.Defense Center attacks by these methods.

Although Fraud.Defense Center pretends to be a useful security program and may even imitate the appearance of a Windows application, SpywareRemove.com malware experts have found that Fraud.Defense Center is incapable of finding or deleting any form of infection or system problem. In most cases, Fraud.Defense Center will attempt to use repeated error messages with inaccurate contents, to make you believe that various programs and system components are infected, and then redirect you to Fraud.Defense Center's website, which will offer to cure all of these issues in return for a purchase of Fraud.Defense Center's registration key.

Instead of giving in to Fraud.Defense Center's scam, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend that you remove Fraud.Defense Center with a competent security program and reverse any changes that Fraud.Defense Center made to your Windows, firewall or network settings. Contact with Fraud.Defense Center's website should also be avoided, since it may attempt to install Fraud.Defense Center or a related Trojan, even if you only visit the site without any other form of interaction.

Busting Through Fraud.Defense Center's Illusion of PC Security

SpywareRemove.com malware research team notes that the numerous problems that Fraud.Defense Center can cause while active, are mostly related to feeding you fake information about your computer's health, but may also directly stop you from using programs that could find and delete Fraud.Defense Center. Common symptoms of infection by rogue security programs like Fraud.Defense Center include:

Files may appear to be shifted to unusual locations or even deleted. In most cases, your files haven't been permanently harmed, and Fraud.Defense Center may have simply changed Windows Explorer's settings to make them fail to display.
Your desktop image may be locked to an unfamiliar image, such as a warning message about spyware or other infections.
Security and anti-virus programs may be blocked by Fraud.Defense Center, with or without fake alert messages.
Fraud.Defense Center will create fake warnings to make it appear as though Fraud.Defense Center detected multiple PC threats. However, as noted earlier by SpywareRemove.com malware analysts, Fraud.Defense Center isn't able to detect keyloggers, Trojans or other forms of malicious software.
Lastly, your web browser may be attacked by ,Google Redirect Virus and similar forms of browser hijacks that force you to visit Fraud.Defense Center's sit

Fraud.Defense Center, however, hasn't shown any unusual resistance to suitably-competent anti-malware programs, and a scan of your PC with the right security product should delete Fraud.Defense Center and rid you of Fraud.Defense Center's accompanying problems.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

C:\Program Files\Defense Center

File name: C:\Program Files\Defense Center
Group: Malware file

C:\AppData\Defense Center\defcnt.exe

File name: C:\AppData\Defense Center\defcnt.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

C:\Desktop\Defense Center Support.lnk".\Defense Center.lnk"

File name: C:\Desktop\Defense Center Support.lnk".\Defense Center.lnk"
Mime Type: unknown/lnk"
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Fraud.DefenseCenterHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Fraud.DefenseCenter