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Desktop Defender 2010 is known to be a fake security client that does little to help your computer and can even cause data loss. It will report a fake system scan and ask you to buy a full version in order to clean all those threats. If you are already infected with this threat then you will want to read this Desktop Defender 2010 removal guide. This program is from the same family as the Contraviro malware. This program looks and feel very professional. The purpose of this is to make it more credible. It is very common for programs like this to disable the Windows Task Manager and other similar programs. You will find your you do not have your computer control anymore.

It will pose problems to your Internet connection, including not being able to update your anti-virus programs, or similar programs. The below methods have been used for years to trick users into purchasing these fake clients. They will claim to be new, free and more. You will be prompted to install or run a small program that is pretending to be something like a video codec but in reality it’s a virus.

Fake codecs. This is a common method for malware like Desktop Defender 2010 to infect system.

Such fake codecs can be installed through what is called a drive by download. It is very common for hackers to hack legit webistes and then install malisious software onto them. A good example of this is when your visiting a website and all the sudden you see a screen that looks like some software is scanning your computer for threats. There are cases were even updated antivirus clients still let through some viruses and the Desktop Defender 2010 is no exception. What was pushed… was the malware disguised. This threat can be very hard to remove and many of us will need an expert to help out. If you need an expert to help remove this threat then you need to check out this Remote PC Repair site. This repair company is very well known and repairs computers online for an honest price. After the program is installed it creates many fake files on the system that do no harm but they place them there for the scanner to show people and they claim the files this program placed there to be real viruses. The more the better. This threat will modify the registry to include an auto start function in the registry. , 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. It will then display a window with the Desktop Defender 2010 header and reports all those fake files as being infections. The whole purpose of this program is to scare you into making a purchase of the bogus client. This client will only scan your system and show you the misleading results, it will then insit you purchase the client to remove the threats. Given those are all fake files with a fake report, you already guessed that Desktop Defender 2010 only wants to steal your money. Do not buy any full version, it will never work. This program often times will block many security websites and even applications like security clients. Often times this client disables the real security software on your computer. It will often block other online security tools and sites. Settings like the System restor and the Registry editor are often times disabled by threats like this. 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. You will also need to edit the registry to remove all the corrupt entries there as well. As we already mentioned you should check out the removal guide linked above for exact steps on how to do this.