How To Remove Defendercontrol.exe

Defendercontrol.exe if seen active on a computer through Task Manager, it can be considered as a part of
Windows Defender, however this is not true. This executable file is actually a software component of trojan. Many security applications and malware scanners have discovered Defendercontrol.exe as a trojan horse infection and more precisely Troj_Faceav.Sm49, and so on. This kind of applications are often referred as computer virus which are designed just to infect computer and spread through networks. This kind of process may execute remote programs, commands, and even install a keylogger to track your personal infromation.

When this kind of unwanted stuffs are installed, the Defendercontrol.exe use to hide itself deep inside system files, and runs its processes configured as startup processes. So, when the system boots, such vicious processes also starts and run in background to do its malicious tasks. Longer presence of such applications on a computer may lead victims to suffer high potential data loss, corruption of essential files, renamed essential exe files, and many more. Considering these impacts, Defendercontrol.exe is highly considered as a dangerous threat and should be tackled as soon as possible without any delay.

Mostly, this kind of applications are distributed over web in form of bundled or diguised applications. Also, these applications are spread through malicious websites, freeware or shareware online channels, torrent based websites, and so on. When a user visit such sources, they face off helpful appearing freebies which never discloses hidden identities with them, and thus Defendercontrol.exe is secretly installed on computer to cause discussed issues or problems. To prevent those, the users should be highly cautious against such free installers or web sources.

Summarized information about Defendercontrol.exe

Name: Defendercontrol.exe
Type: Trojan, spyware
Description: Defendercontrol.exe is discovered to be a malicious malware or a threat that may devastate overall computer’s usage and performance drastically.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware installer packages, malicious links or sites, and many more.
Removal: In order to learn some specific guidelines or methods to remove Defendercontrol.exe, we highly suggest you to follow guidelines under this article.

As mentioned earlier, cyber-criminals have expertise to use some of the services offered by Windows System process as vulnerabilities. They usually mimic a legitimate system process with name of the Trojan or malware. They create the process of a Trojan same as some legitimate system process. In some cases, they easily get differentiated from legit processes however; some cases can be extremely difficult to distinguish.

If you examine the Windows process category in the Task Manager, you would easily notice the legitimate system process. However, if you notice duplicate files process, one must be a malware. This type of Trojan or malware continuously mines bitcoin or other crypto-currencies and this is a very high resource extensive process. The overall speed and performance of the PC gets extremely slow and sluggish. For depth enquiry, you can right click on the doubtful process and choose file location option in order to see the associated program. As a simple rule, if the file is stored in Windows/System32 folder, it is legitimate.

On the other hand, if the process is stored in the user’s processes or “Open the file” for the process leads to any random directories then it is doubtful. You should immediately scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool. Remember that manual removal of harmful process related to Trojan or suspicious files are very difficult due to its deep intrusion and integration with the OS.

How to Remove Defendercontrol.exe

The first thing that you should do is to scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool and that will be very helpful. On the other hand, if you have backup of your important data in any external clean location such as hard-drive or pen-drive etc. then formatting the infected hard-drive of the PC may also work for you. Remember that formatting the hard-drive may work for one PC but if the infected PC is connected with a network of PCs then this step will go in vain.

Click on the “Download” button to use “SpyHunter” anti-malware tool to clean your workstation.

 

• On click on the download button, the file named as “Spyhunter-Intaller.exe” gets downloaded.

• In the downloads dialog box, choose “SpyHunter Installer.exe” and open the file.

• Select “Yes” in the “User Account Control” dialog box.

• Select the language you prefer and press on “OK” to get next step

• In order to process the installation, press on “Continue”

• Accept the privacy policy and end user agreement.

• Open “SpyHunter” by locating its icon on the desktop or search it on Windows “Start” menu.

The next step is to use “SpyHunter” for PC scanning and malware removal.

• Go to the “Home tab” and press on “Start Scan” button

Wait for the few minutes to scan gets completed. On completion, it scan result report is presented on the screen.

⇒ Register for the Spyhunter and remove Defendercontrol.exe and all detected threats

To delete Defendercontrol.exe and all associated threats found through the system scan, you need to register for the SpyHunter:

• Click on the register button available on the top-right corner of the program window,and then click on buy button.
• You will automatically be redirected to the purchasing page, enter your customer detail and valid email address,
• After the successful payment, you will receive email confirmation message. The email contains the account information such as usernames and passwords and so on,
• Thereafter, enter the same detail in the Account tab of the settings section of the program. Now, you can avail full features and protection to your system.

⇒ Steps to remove Defendercontrol.exe and other detected threats:

Spyhunter antivirus tool categorizes the type of objects detected during system scans in total five sections – “Malware“, “PUPs” (Potentially Unwanted Programs), “Privacy“, “Vulnerabilities“, and “Whitelisted objects“

Select the object you want to remove and then click on Next button (you can quarantine an object so that you can anytime restore it to the system using restore feature)