How to remove Great Defender

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Great Defender description

GreatDefender is a Rogue application which produces many detections that are not malicious in order to persuade the user into buying their product before they can remove these spurious detections.

How to get rid of Great Defender

This infection can be removed using Spyware Doctor.

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Spyware Doctor is widely valued as one of the best AntiSpyware programs available to protect you from Great Defender and the latest internet security threats. If your computer is infected with Great Defender we strongly recommend automatic spyware scanner.

How to manually remove Great Defender

To get rid of spyware such as Great Defender you need to remove processes, search and delete registry keys, DLL and other Great Defender related files from your computer.

Take Note: The manual process of removing spyware from your computer is difficult and puts you at risk of damaging your computer. We advise using our automatic Great Defender remover.

1. Uninstall Great Defender from Control Panel
   Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs. Double click to uninstall.
2. End these Great Defender processes:
   GreatDefender.exe
   To stop processes press Ctrl + Alt + Del or click Start > Run > type "taskmgr". Select malicious process in the list and click "End Process" button.
3. Unregister Great Defender DLL files:
   nsProcess.dll
   To unregister DLL click Start > Run > type "regsvr32 /u PATH_TO_FILE/FILE.dll"
4. Delete Great Defender registry entries: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\GreatDefender
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\GreatDefender
   To open registry editor click Start > Run > type "regedit".
   Warning! Manual registry entries editing may cause damage to your system.
   Download Uniblue RegistryBooster 2010 to scan for registry errors.
5. Search and delete these Great Defender related files:
   %CommonDesktopDir%\GreatDefender.lnk
   %CommonPrograms%\GreatDefender\1 GreatDefender.lnk
   %CommonPrograms%\GreatDefender\2 Homepage.lnk
   %CommonPrograms%\GreatDefender\3 Uninstall.lnk
   %Temp%\nsu3.tmp\nsProcess.dll
   
6. Block Great Defender malicious domains:
   greatdefender.com
   www.greatdefender.com