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[Tech0utsider]

I installed Perfect Defender because someone claimed that their computer was hijacked and when they tried to access the internet they would get redirected to Perfect Defender's site.

Perfect Defender seems to be a legit program, albeit poor in malware detection; it didn't detect EICAR =\. It even has a firewall, which actually worked =\. There are thousands of hits for how to remove the program, and they all claim the symptoms to be similar to that of rouge adware: pop-ups, advertisments, etc etc.

I have not experienced any one of the symptoms with Perfect Defender. I even left my VPC which I installed it on idle, to see what would happen; if it would download anything, etc. Nothing. I restarted. Nothing...

So, can I ask the rationale behind adding Perfect Defender to Malwarebytes' list of rouge security apps?

[exile360]

Most likely because of FP's and/or complete ineffectiveness. It is also possible that the others who do have the bad symptoms didn't willingly download it, but had it forced on them by a trojan that downloaded it so the makers of the software could try to scam cash from the victims by having Perfect Defender say "Your system is infected by blah blah blah trojan, please purchase a license for Perfect Defender to remove the infection" or something similar. It's a very common scam, and typically the rogues don't contain the trojans themselves, they simply get downloaded and installed by the trojans so they can trick the infected users into purchasing the program which also gives the offenders the users credit card number.

[nosirrah]

If this is the one I am thinking of it seemed to be a clone of other rogues without the intentional FP database . No one would make a real app cloned from the well known rogues .

[Tech0utsider]

Just another useless program? A variant of it had the intentional FP database and MBAM happens to pick this particular one up?

[nosirrah]

Be real enough to get a non-rogue rep and then switch , not going to give them the chance .