Jan 26, 2009

Remove Total Defender - Total Defender Removal Instrucitons

Total Defender is rogue antispyware application which had just appeared. Parasite usually came with Trojan horse, and install itself secretly onto your computer. Total Defender can easily hijack your web browser and redirect it to PCTotalDefender.com. The most important thing about Total Defender is that it don’t use scare tactics in order to convince pc users to purchase licensed version. Contrariwise after fake system scan Total Defender will assure you that your system was secure after scan. That how Total Defender developers try to hide additional spyware and malware installation onto your computer.
We strongly recommend you to remove Total Defender as soon as possible manually or using automatical removal tool.

Type: Rogue Anti-Spyware
Malware Author: ZlKon
Threat Level: Critical
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How to remove Total Defender manually:
It's possible to remove Total Defender manually, but you have to be very experienced in dealing with registry entries, program files and .dll files.

The files to be deleted:

* base.dat
* main.ini
* totaldefender.exe
* TotalDefender.lnk


Remove registry entries:

* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\TotalDefender
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TotalDefender
* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
“Antivirus” = “%ProgramFiles%\TotalDefender\TotalDefender.exe”



Please be careful because manual removal of Total Defender may seriously damage operational system and sensitive data. Also there is a big possibility of incomplete removal, because some files could be hidden and program could re-install itself after you delete files and registry entries. So we strongly recommend you to use automatical removal tool.

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