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Published by admin on March 23, 2009 10:23 am under Spyware Help

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Do you know what WinPC Defender is?

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WinPC Defender or Win PC Defender, is a rogue anti-spyware program that could compromise the security functionality of your system. WinPC Defender, once installed, starts to perform system scans and alerts you through visual and audible notifications of fake firewall warnings and the Windows security messages. Each of these instances are all fake and produced by the WinPC Defender program.

WinPC Defender continuously alerts you to the point of pure frustration. It is important to know that WinPC Defender is a bogus program and may not let you uninstall it from the control panels add/remove feature. WinPC Defender may be found on the www.win-pc-defender.com website which is purely malicious because if it advertising WinPC Defender as a “good” program.

In non-techie terms:
Do not trust or purchase WinPC Defender under any circumstances. WinPC Defender is a complete waste of money and potentially dangerous to have installed on your computer. You may seriously risk damage to your computer if you allow WinPC Defender to be installed.

The image below demonstrates many of the bogus popups messages that you get when WinPC Defender is installed on your computer.

WinPC Defender Screen Shot Image:

Win-PC-Defender.com website image:

Aliases: WinPC Defender, WinPCDefender, Win PC Defender, www.win-pc-defender.com, Win-PC-Defender.

WinPC Defender Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions

WinPC Defender Manual Removal Instructions

This manual removal method is for techie computer users. WinPC Defender manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that WinPC Defender will be removed completely. So read the WinPC Defender removal steps carefully and good luck.

Before you start: Close all programs and Internet browsers. Also back up your computer in case you make a mistake and your computer stops working.

Uninstall WinPC Defender Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall WinPC Defender if found.
To stop WinPC Defender processes (view process removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type taskmgr. The click the Processes tab and you’ll see a list of running processes.
Search and stop these WinPC Defender processes:
defender.exe
pcdef[1].exe
pcdefender.exe
WinPC Defender.LNK
install[1].exe
WP87ed.exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”.
To Unregister WinPC Defender DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these WinPC Defender DLLs:
There are no dll's.

To locate the WinPC Defender DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type WinPC Defender and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the WinPC Defender DLL path, go to Start and then click on Run. In the Run command box, type cmd, and then click on OK.
To locate the exact DLL path, type cd in order to change the current directory. To display the contents of the directory, use the dir command. To remove the DLL file type regsvr32 /u FILENAME.dll (FILENAME is the name of the file that you want to unregister).
To unregister WinPC Defender registry keys (view registry keys removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type regedit > press OK.
Edit the value (on the right pane) by right-clicking on it and selecting the Modify option. Select the Delete option.
Search and delete these WinPC Defender registry keys:
WinPC Defender
If your homepage has been changed, go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > click on the General > click Use Default under Home Page. Add the your desired default homepage, then click Apply > click OK. Open a new web browser to check that you have your desired default homepage.
Remove WinPC Defender Directories.
To find WinPC Defender directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following WinPC Defender directories:
There are no directories.

Right-click on the WinPC Defender folder and select Delete.
A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder WinPC Defender and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting WinPC Defender could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes.
To remove WinPC Defender icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.

You’ve completed the WinPC Defender manual removal instructions!
I hope this article has helped you solve your WinPC Defender problems. If you want to contribute to this article, post your comment below.

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