PC Defender Plus is known to most of the users facing it as a program foisted off with a set of fake installation boxes. In fact, whether you agree or not to the invitation of those boxes to install it, the program has already been installed while the boxes serve to make an appearance of the program conforming to the requirement of user’s free exclusive choice of programs to be installed.
Most of the victims, fortunately, manage to get rid of PC Defender Plus before they see all the capacity of its silly popups. Regardless of the stage you have faced the scam on, the free scan available here is a valid PC Defender Plus removal tool.
Manual removal directions:
Delete PC Defender Plus files:
%AppData%\NPSWF32.dll
%AppData%\Protector-
%AppData%\result.db
Delete PC Defender Plus registry entries:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnOnHTTPSToHTTPRedirect” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegistryTools” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\IEXPLORE.EXE\shell\open\command “(Default)” = ‘”%LocalAppData%\kdn.exe” -a “C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”