Description of rogue program: smmservice.exe (Defense Center)
Smmservice.exe is a part of rogue program "Defense Center", which is installed on your computer without your knowledge. Once it is running, it will block you from running any security program so that make itself hard to remove. And then it will disable your internet connection so that you can not download any update for your security programs. Then the malware will perform a fake scan to your computer and then stating your computer is infected by some malware, but it will not allow you to remove those infections until you purchase its full version. Actually all the infections reported by this rogue program are not existing.
Objects of rogue program: smmservice.exe
Registry Values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run: Defense Center
Registry Keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Defense Center
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Defense Center
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\smmservice
Folders:
C:\Program Files\Defense Center
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Defense Center
Files:
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Defense Center Support.lnk
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Defense Center.lnk
C:\Documents and settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Network\Downloader\smmservice.exe
How to remove rogue program: smmservice.exe (Defense Center) with Adware Away
Adware Away can completely remove rogue smmservice.exe and all other malware related to this malware. Just follow the steps below:
- 1. Launch Adware Away
- 2. Click "Start Scan" button and wait for the scan completes
- 3. Click "Fix Selected" button in the scan result window
- 4. Reboot your computer if Adware Away prompts to reboot.
Adware Away scan result for rogue smmservice.exe (Note: result may be different between different variants)
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