Do It Yourself

the program autostart because the registry has been modified to include this program on boot. , in all cases we have seen this client will always run a fake scana on startup and often times will prompt the user to scan again and again. The Desktop 2010 program will show you a report that has many fake scan results. The whole purpose of this program is to scare you into making a purchase of the bogus client. The malware saying it is but a scanner and to clean your system, you need the full version. Given those are all fake files with a fake report, you already guessed that Desktop Defender 2010 only wants to steal your money. Purchasing a full version only gives criminals your money and they will keep doing this to other people. This program often times will block many security websites and even applications like security clients. You will find out your own security program will not work, neither if you try to update it. As to accessing others online, it is also blocked. It is normal for System Restore or the Registry Editor not to work and be disabled from the threat. In my testing of this threat we also had our browser settings highjacked and were getting re-directs to the sales page of this program.

You should first, rather than believing this fake program, remove Desktop Defender 2010 . To remove such malware you will need to first terminate the running process called DesktopDefender2010.exe. Once this is done you should be able now remove most of the traces located at Documents and SettingsAll UsersStart MenuPrograms and Program FilesDesktop Defender 2010. Do not forget to go into the registry and remove the false entires there. As we already mentioned you should check out the removal guide linked above for exact steps on how to do this.