How to remove Perfect Defender 2009

Perfect Defender 2009 Description

Perfect Defender 2009 is a fake antispyware application. Perfect Defender 2009 is promoted as an anti-virus / online scanner and firewall, but it does not perform any of these tasks. Perfect Defender 2009 just imitates the look and feel of a real security application while in fact it is a byproduct of a serious infection:


Perfect Defender 2009 is another clone of Personal Defender 2009 rogue anti-spyware. It displays fake or exaggerated list of spyware threats and tries to frighten the user into purchasing of the "full" version of that rogue software.

Computers infected with Perfect Defender 2009 may have their search results misdirected / redirected to bogus sites, and existing antivirus software may become disabled.

Perfect Defender 2009 displays annoying warning messages from the Windows taskbar informing about detected threats. If the user chooses the option to remove detected "threat", he/she will be asked to buy the full version of Perfect Defender 2009.

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How to remove Perfect Defender 2009 manually

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You must perform the following tasks to remove Perfect Defender 2009 malware manually: stop all malicious processes, unregister malicious DLL files, delete all files and registry keys installed by Perfect Defender 2009 files and block Perfect Defender 2009 redistribution websites.

During installation Perfect Defender 2009 registers itself in the list of installed applications. You can try to remove Perfect Defender 2009 using "Control Panel" -> "Add or Remove Programs" utility, however some hidden files may be left behind on the system.

Perfect Defender 2009 manual removal instructions

Stop all Perfect Defender 2009 malicious processes:

• PerfectDefender2009.exe
• pdefendr.exe
• pdinstall2009.exe

Unregister Perfect Defender 2009 malicious DLLs:

• pd.dll

Delete all files installed by Perfect Defender 2009:

• %Program Files%\Perfect Defender 2009\dbbase.div
• %Program Files%\Perfect Defender 2009\pd.dll
• %Program Files%\Perfect Defender 2009\pdfndr.exe
• %Program Files%\Perfect Defender 2009\UnInstall.exe
• pdinstall2009.exe
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Perfect Defender 2009\Perfect Defender 2009.lnk
• %Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Perfect Defender 2009\Uninstall Perfect Defender 2009.lnk

Delete all registry keys installed by Perfect Defender 2009:

• %HKLM%\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PDefender
• %HKLM%\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Perfect Defender 2009
• %HKLM%\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\PDefender

Block Perfect Defender 2009 redistribution websites:

• perfect-defender-2009.com
• perfectdefender2009.com
• defender-2009.com

Once you complete the above manual removal steps, download this scanner to scan your computer for any Perfect Defender 2009 leftovers.

Similar Malware Threats

• Personal Defender 2009