Remove Personal Guard 2009 [Removal Guide]

This guide will give you easy instructions on how to remove Personal Guard 2009 for free.


What is Personal Guard 2009? (Information)

Personal Guard 2009 is a fake security software which uses fraudulent strategies by displaying false or exaggerated security issues on your computer rather than any legitimate ones to coerce you into purchasing their software.


Personal Guard 2009 Screenshots



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To remove Personal Guard 2009 manually, delete the following items
Personal Guard 2009 Files, Folders and Registry items

%UserProfile%\Desktop\Personal Guard 2009.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Guard 2009
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Guard 2009\Personal Guard 2009.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\Programs\Personal Guard 2009\Uninstall.lnk
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\config.cnf
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\mainbase.adb
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\personalguard.exe
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\q.adb
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\queue.vdb
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\uninstall.exe
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\virusbase.adb
C:\Program Files\Personal Guard 2009\quarantine
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Personal Guard 2009
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Personal Guard 2009
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "personalguard"

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Follow these instructions to continue for the automatic removal:

1. Please download this removal tool: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware.

If you are having problems downloading from the link above, click here:

Spoiler :

2. Extract the file and install Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware by double clicking on winlogon.exe

3. Follow the prompts. Make sure that Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware are checked. Then click finish.

4. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will automatically update itself after the install, you can press the OK button to close that box and you will now be at the main program as shown below.

If you are having problems with the updater, you can use this link to manually update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with the latest database



5. Close ALL open Windows, Programs, File or Folders.

6. Make sure you are on the Scanner tab. Select Perform quick scan then click the Scan button as shown above.

7. Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for infected files as shown below.


8. When the scan is finished a message box will appear, click Ok to continue.

9. Click Show Results.


10. You will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections like shown below. Yours may look different depending on the infection you have.

11. Click on Remove seletced


12. When removing the files, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware may require you to restart the computer in order to do a complete removal. If it displays a message stating that it needs to restart, please allow it to do so.

13. After that you can close the Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware window, your computer is now cleaned.

To protect your computer from future threats like this, you may want to consider purchasing the Pro version of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware with real-time protection from this link.

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Last edited by Doctor Inferno on 17th October 2009, 4:46 am; edited 2 times in total

Thank you so much! Your tool removed it successfully.

I registered just to say thank you and in case I have more problems in future I know where to come.

thanks for the help

I tried many removal programs and THIS ONE WORKED!! I have been trying to get rid of this virus for a week, Thank you SO MUCH!

Hi my names Roman and i've been trying to remove personal guard 2009 of 7 hours straight and i've tried EVERYTHING, i've tried using spybot,malware bytes,and i've even tried to remove it myself but it keeps restoring itself and i don't have the money to spend on spy doctor,can anyone help?

I did a search on how to remove Personal Guard 2009. I downloaded the Avast antivirus and ran it. It found a few items and I deleted them. PG2009 is stilll here popping up its BS messages. It was haled as the great wonder in getting rid of this junk. Is MalwareBytes any better? Does anything remove it besides the manual editing of the registry, which I am leary of doing as it can be so damaging if done wrong.

Thanks alot. I read several sites which said the mbam solution did not and would not work. This was only partially true. This may not be the case in all infections, but what I found was once my system was infected with pg09 mbam would not install.

The mbam.exe was being detected and deleted during installation (assumingly by pg09), the wizard would "complete" but a windows error would follow and the program was not executable. Upon navigating to the program files destination I discovered the executable was gone. I tried several variations of install but it was removed everytime. I wound up using another machine which had not been infected with pg09 and installed mbam. Once that was done I re-named the .exe (pg_smoker.exe for example) and copied to a flash drive, then to the destination pc in the appropriate program directory. mbam would then launch, update worked fine, and apparently the pc was quite compramised as 60+ files were detected. I selected to remove them all and reboot and BAM (or mbam ) pg09 did launch any longer.

I might have wanted to be more selective with the file removal as there were many win errors upon startup pretaining to missing files etc. but all applications appear to be working properly, I'll update if I find something failed.

I too had a problem downloading Malwarebytes'. Sneaky little fella this Personal Guard is! I followed your advice, boneall, and it worked perfect for getting Mbam to run. I too go a bunch of win errors after reboot and now it looks like Personal Guard got loaded somehow onto my computer (before running mbam, it was not in my start menu, now it is after restarting...)

So I'm running it again!

Just a quick update - I re-ran mbam and it again found some of the same files (I'm guessing when I clicked OK on some of those Win Error messages I messed it up again, so don't do that if you get them!)

I restarted again after running mbam and it ran perfect. No error messages, nothing at all resembling Personal Guard. Thank goodness!

Hello,

Anyone with difficulty removing this malware, please open a new topic here for assistance:

http://www.geekpolice.net/virus-spyware-malware-removal-f11/