How to remove Privacydefend.info from PC?

What is Privacydefend.info?

Usually, Privacydefend.info is categorized as a potentially unwanted adware application. At the very beginning it claims that it can improve your browsing experience by displaying competitive price, discount or coupons. However, it is just a stunt to attract your eyes.

Once Privacydefend.info installed on your computer, some troubles may increase. Firstly, it will privately add some unwanted programs or browser extensions on your system. Every time when you search something you may find your screen full of sale ads, sponsored links or Virtual Shopper Pop-ups. Moreover, it will compromise the browser and add browser cookies. That is why your computer always full of webpage junk. Worse of all, your confidential information about online bank account, credit card detail, email address or password may be sold out to the third-party, which may use it for illegal purposes.

How can my computer get infected with Privacydefend.info?

Privacydefend.info is generally created by the cyber criminals. It always connects with some free downloads. That freeware or shareware you’ve downloaded may be offered by suspicious websites, which are more likely contained virus or malicious programs. Privacydefend.info can be bundled into the download process, so it can sneak into your computer without your permission.

Apart from that, Privacydefend.info may also come from spam email attachment or fake update. It seems that these emails are just the same as others, but once you opened it, some questionable program may privately and automatically install on your computer, and you don’t know it at all. Those fake updates share the same principle with those spam emails.

How to remove Privacydefend.info from PC?

Method 1. Remove Privacydefend.info manually (Involve in complicated steps)
Method 2. Remove Privacydefend.info automatically with SpyHunter(Easy and safe)
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Method 1. Remove Privacydefend.info manually
Step 1. Start your computer with Safe Mode NetWorking and end related process

1) Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key until Windows Advanced Options menu shows up, then using arrow key to select “Safe Mode with Networking” from the list and press ENTER to get into that mode.
2)End up the running processes of Privacydefend.info in Windows Task Manager.

Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc or Ctrl+Alt+Delete to open Windows Task Manager, find malicious processes and click End Process.
Step 2. Uninstall Privacydefend.info from your window

Windows 7/Vista users:

Click “Start” (“Windows Logo” in the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose “Control Panel”.
Locate “Programs”, “Uninstall a Program”.
Look for suspicious or unfamiliar program, select this entry and click Uninstall.

Windows 8 users:

Click “Charms bar”, choose “Settings” and click “Control Panel”.
Locate and click “Uninstall a program”
Look for suspicious or unfamiliar related program, select its entry and click Uninstall.
uninstall from Win 8

Windows XP:

1. Click “Start”, choose “Settings” and click “Control Panel”.
2. Locate and click “Add or Remove Programs”.
3. Search for the potentially unwanted program and uninstall it by clicking the “Remove” button.

Mac OSX:

1. Click “Finder”, in the opened screen and select “Applications”.
2. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select “Empty Trash”.
3. In the uninstall programs window, look for ” Privacydefend.info” and uninstall it by clicking “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

Step 3. Disable Music Search from your browser

Open Google Chrome

In the Main Menu, select Tools then Extensions
Remove the Music Search by clicking on the little recycle bin
Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

Open Mozilla Firefox

Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
Disable the unwanted Extension
Go to Help
Then Troubleshoot information
Click on Reset Firefox

On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
Click on Internet options
go to Toolbars and Extensions and disable the unknown extensions
Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset

Method 2. Remove Privacydefend.info with SpyHunter
Step 1. Download SpyHunter to have a full scan

SpyHunter is a legitimate, real-time anti-spyware application designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats.

1. Click the below button to download SpyHunter
2. Double click on SpyHunter-Installer.exe to install the program.
3. Open SpyHunter and click Scan Computer Now! to allow the program to start a scan on your computer.
4. When the scan is completed, all the threats in your computer are successfully detected. Tick Fix Threats button to uninstall it.

Step 2. Download RegCure Pro to optimize your system

 The function of RegCure Pro :

a) Speed up your computer
b) Optimize the performance of computer
c) Remove malware and virus
d) Defrag memory
e) Clean up your computer
1) Click the below button to download the file.
2) Run the RegCure Pro Setup Application and click the Yes button to install the program step by step.
3) Check all the scan settings and then click on the Click to Start Scan button to run a system scan on your computer.
4) When the system scan is done, click on Fix All button to completely remove all the performance problems in your computer.

Summary: As an adware, Privacydefend.info will disturb our online life and damage our computer.  With SpyHunter, you can always protect your computer from the malicious attacks; with RegCure Pro, you can always optimize  and speed up your computer.