PC Defender Plus. Is it reliable anti-virus?
PC Defender Plus fills the cell in the category of phony anti-virus programs. The fraudware actively drop its malicious code on the vulnerable PCs worldwide and starts and employing its deceptive activities. This bogus anti-virus tool has been recently released by hackers with one objective only – to trick the gullible Internet users and milk money out of them. To reach its purpose it displays falsified security alerts, warnings, popups and notifications. This program is a real adept in scaring users about their security problems. Note! The hoax does not require your permission for installation. It is the first sign that it is virus program. Upon successful entry into the targeted computer this scamware make some registry amendments and tunes up the system to be launched automatically after every PC reboot. Thus the users face the GUI of this unwanted tool every time he/she launches a PC. Instead of steady work of a PC one sees this PC Defender Plus virus. It goes without saying that its numerous fake and untrue security alerts are really annoying. The virus deeply roots into a system; in order to eradicate one should know where the rogue hides.
How to clean my PC from PC Defender Plus virus
“pcdfdata” is the name of the folder where PC Defender scam nests. Its location is as follows – %commonappdata%\pcdfdata. Of course, “%commonappdata%” probably means nothing to you if you are not very well IT literate. For your information please consider this instruction below. %CommonAppData% stands for the Application Data folder in the All Users profile. For Windows XP, Vista, NT, 2000 and 2003 it has the location C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\, and for Windows Vista/Seven it is C:\ProgramData.
Thus, the locations of files associated with PC Defender Plus virus are as follows:
- C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\pcdfdata – For Windows XP
- C:\ProgramData\pcdfdata – for Windows Vista and Windows Seven
Users who search for “pcdfdata” folder location probably attempt to get rid of this malicious utility manually. However, this is a time-consuming process that requires additional skills of a more IT-professional nature. We recommend you to remove PC Defender Plus scam automatically with the help of GridinSoft Trojan Killer as described below. By the way, one of the most severe processes of PC Defender Plus malware is named “pcdfsvc”. This one can be terminated effectively if you carefully follow the guidelines stipulated below.
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