Ultimate Defender

Posted: June 29, 2006

Threat Metric

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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:	10/10
Infected PCs:	23

First Seen:	July 24, 2009
Last Seen:	January 9, 2019
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Ultimate Defender is a fake anti-virus application with close ties to other fraudulent AV products, including Bogema Security, Clean Security and Ultimate Guard. Ultimate Defender and related rogue anti-virus programs use deceitful installation methods to gain access to your PC. Once Ultimate Defender has a foothold on your hard drive, Ultimate Defender will create fake warnings and alerts that imply that the only way to restore normal functionality to your PC is by purchasing Ultimate Defender. However, buying Ultimate Defender will result in giving your credit card information to criminal entities, and the recommended solution is to delete Ultimate Defender, and all corresponding problems, with a legitimate anti-malware program.

The Countless Reasons Why Ultimate Defender is Only Interested in Defending Itself

SpywareRemove.com malware research team has observed that Ultimate Defender uses the functions, appearance, and even the same marketing and delivery strategies of other rogue anti-virus programs that have sprung up in late July and early August of 2011. These rogue AV products, sold at websites like Ultimblock.com, Ultimsecurity.com, Windowsdef.com, Ultimdefender.com and other Ultimate Defender clone sites, have no goal save to steal your money and credit card details. Some of the most well-defined and harmful characteristics of an Ultimate Defender infection include:

Fake infection warnings and scanner results. Ultimate Defender will feed you tidbits of false information that may make you believe that an innumerable array of viruses and other infections are teeming on your PC, but any system dysfunctional that you experience is more than likely to be caused by Ultimate Defender itself. In addition, Ultimate Defender can't detect or delete viruses even if you throw money away on purchasing its full version.
Problems using unrelated programs, especially anti-malware products such as anti-virus scanners. Ultimate Defender will block these programs to prevent you from learning that all of Ultimate Defender's proffered threat alert information is fake, as well as to stop you from deleting Ultimate Defender and related infections.
Complicity with Trojans that install similar rogue anti-virus programs. These Trojans, including Zlob and Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert, may create fake errors of their own and are capable of delivering multiple types of rogue security products, although the majority of payloads will be simple clones that alter program names and little else.
Attempts to steal your credit card information with a technically functional but worthless Ultimate Defender purchase form. Since Ultimate Defender can't do anything that Ultimate Defender or Ultimate Defender's website claims, buying Ultimate Defender is no better than throwing away your money. Even worse, the same criminals that run Ultimate Defender and its clones have been confirmed to make fake charges on vulnerable credit cards on a semi-regular basis.

Things to Know to Defend Your PC from Ultimate Defender

Many Ultimate Defender installation methods will use fake infection warnings to lure you into installing Ultimate Defender willingly, under the false pretense that Ultimate Defender actually could help your computer. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that Ultimate Defender and the rest of its family of rogue anti-virus programs are closely-tied to fraudulent distribution strategies that use fake system scan displays and fake web browser updates.

"[Rogue security program name] Firewall Alert! – Scanning of your system is currently on, please waiting until the end. Your system affected by numerous virus attacks, [Rogue security program name] Firewall Alert recommends you to install proper software to protect your computer?"

If your computer's been infected with Ultimate Defender, try to avoid removing Ultimate Defender by manual means unless you have no other options. Like most rogue security programs, Ultimate Defender will make Registry changes and other advanced alterations to Windows that can't be undone solely by deleting Ultimate Defender's files.

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:

msole.dll

File name: msole.dll
Size: 81.92 KB (81920 bytes)
MD5: 59a18c0876429e2a82f72706f911def8
Detection count: 21
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009

msqnx.dll

File name: msqnx.dll
Size: 172.03 KB (172032 bytes)
MD5: cf178a08700c0d45cad1ca9b10343ce7
Detection count: 13
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009

msdde.dll

File name: msdde.dll
Size: 81.92 KB (81920 bytes)
MD5: dd4bfe86d5e1413c529f16680a3b9ffb
Detection count: 12
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009

msddx.dll

File name: msddx.dll
Size: 184.32 KB (184320 bytes)
MD5: 25ebe018061218ab9af633bd85d858af
Detection count: 4
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009