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How can I remove Malware: Smart Defender Pro?

I have a user who has managed to snag a copy of this Smart Defender Pro malware. Pop-ups every few seconds, bogus "Your browser is secure" screens, false threat warnings, the works. The only files I see listed on the system are in her profile under Application Data. I need to know if anyone has idea what reg keys and or files to look for so I can get rid of this thing.

The only info I have found on the web are sites advertising removal tools (always shady). The app is an exact replica of "Virus Remover Pro." After all the bogus literature I have come across, I would rather get some assistance via EE (with all our abundant knowledge!)

I will re-image the machine in the end but I wanted to see if anyone has some additional insight.

Alan Hardisty

Have you tried MalwareBytes - www.malwarebytes.org - great free tool and finds all manner of spyware, malware and other nasties.

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David-Howard

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Mohamed Osama

with rogue programs like this one , if Malwarebytes did not do the trick as advised above, you can jump rightaway to using Combofix
also please show us the logs form Hijack this, Combofix & MBAM

moatist

I would try Spybot - Search & Destroy which you can download from:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

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Mahoney-84

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The hijackthis logs are very helpful - Thank you for suggesting the very handy utility
Prefer to try and remove threats like this manually without scan utilities or blow the machine away and start over.