Spyware Guard 2009 is the same fake rogue spyware remover tool as Spyware Guard 2008 with changed date in the name. Parasite uses security blind spots or Trojan to get into the system. Also SpywareGuard 2009 can be downloaded by user from websites with rogue content. When parasite is on board it starts fake security scan whereupon shows misleading virus infections and system risks. Scare tactics is made to frighten users and force them into purchasing full licensed version of Spyware Guard2009. This application is totally useless and do not does what it claims, in fact it will harm your computer instead of cleaning. SpywareGuard2009 may cause system slowdown, limit internet connection, change your internet browser settings and many more problems. Remove this parasite manually could be very difficult because it doesn’t appear in add/remove programs list and may recreate itself after installation. We recommend you to delete Spyware Guard 2009 as soon as possible and scan your computer with reliable anti-spyware to avoid problems mentioned above.
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Siblings were on my computer and then they told me the computer froze so they pressed the ON button to manually shut down the computer. Since then spyware guard 2009 has been popping up and after reading some removal procedures, i could still not delete it’s files.
It is in my program files as “Spyware Guard 2009”.
Tried deleting it through cmd but the system could not find the path specified.
Downloaded Pocket KillBox but “the file does not seem to exist”.
I’m left to decide whether to just back up my files onto a portable hard drive then simply start the partition drive anew.
Please send help!
We figured out how to remove it! Unfortunately, it’s not as simple as downloading anti-spyware software. The program that we used was MalewareBytes, but we couldn’t do anything directly. First off, we couldn’t download the program directly to our PC, so we had to download it to another computer and transfer it to the infected computer via a usb stick. Then, we couldn’t get MalewareBytes to install itself on the infected computer. It kept freezing up once it got to the “extracting files” part. (Renaming the program might also work – something like “Remover” instead of “MalewareBytes”.) At that point, we went into the task manager and found the mbam.exe process and ended it. We had to do this several times to get MalewareBytes to install completely. Once we did this, however, the program still wouldn’t run, so we had to rename it to “MBytes.bat”. Mainly, you need to make sure that you’ve changed the .exe extension to .bat. After that, it should run for about half an hour after which it will want to restart your computer. We suggest running it two or three times to completely remove everything. It should take about half an hour each time. We had first tried to remove it manually, but it was pretty close to impossible as the deleted files would just respawn before we could delete them all. Hopefully this works for other people too.
Spyware Guard 2009 appeared in Add/Remove Programs, so I chose to remove it. However, literally a minute later, after removing the program, it came up with the same old “Your computer is at high risk” nonsense.
Thanks to Hayley (posted on 1/11/09), I too was also able to remove Spyware Guard 2009. Maleware Bytes appears to have done the trick. The cleanest way to do it is to boot Windows in Safe Mode with Networking (for XP, press F8 when booting). Then you can open a web browswer and download + install + execute Maleware Bytes without a problem. The machine needed to be rebooted to complete the deletion of a few items. For good measure, I rebooted a second time and (on the third scan) no malicious items were found.
Normal Add/Remove Programs does not work (this is malicious software designed to trick you into buying a product that doesn’t work; it will not provide a simple method to remove it). Terminating the application using Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Delete) left my machine in a hung state, so Safe Mode appeared to be the only way to do anything to it.
Please note that the rogue programs called Spyware Guard 2008 and 2009 are not related to the legitimate security software named SpywareGuard that is created by Javacool Software.