How To Remove Windows Defender Security Warning

Detailed Instructions To Delete Windows Defender Security Warning

Windows Defender Security Warning is just a new detection by cyber crime master minds according to whom, it’s just a new scam being circulated to deceive users and their values. The users are tricked to click some link following which they are enforced to download and install malicious apps, may trigger some malicious scripts, download some nasty objects, and so on. In all such cases, the victims are expected to face off terrible issues or problems throughout the web sessions or even while accessing their machine for offline purposes. In case if you have recently started to face problems and the issue seem somehow related to Windows Defender Security Warning, then your system is actually infected by Windows Defender Security Warning and its negative impacts. To overcome such issues, we strongly suggest you to keep reading this article either to learn more about Windows Defender Security Warning and how to remove Windows Defender Security Warning from a compromised system.

Threat Specifications

Name: Windows Defender Security Warning
Type: Scam, fake warning
Description: Windows Defender Security Warning is just a scam technique employed by criminals to trick users into clicking some liks or ads, and their system is rather infected to show just high potential issues.
Distribution: Bundled freeware or shareware applications, malicious file downloasd, spam or junk email attachments
Removal: If you have noticed your machine is infected by this infectious object hen you might be looking for some effective measures to delete Windows Defender Security Warning completely, for which you should follow the guidelines here.

Detailed information about Windows Defender Security Warning

As per the researchers, the Windows Defender Security Warning nothing more than a vicious trick employed by cyber crime master minds to make users believing that their system is infected, have some critical issues, and manby more. With the help of these fake or scamming techniques, the users are enforced to call a provided number, and pay the demanded fee to buy some unnecessary services, or products. In some of the instances, the scammmers may also trick users to provide access to their machine remotely, through which the criminals can steal various personal details without any prior notice, and such information can be IP addresses, login credentials, social media details, and many more.

Based on attributes seen in most of the cases, a user never intend to visit such online sources intentionally, but are forcibly redirected to through online shady pages, clicking some intrusive links or advertisements, installing some PUPs or adware, and many more. In all these cases, the users are basically tricked by showing some helpful or beneficial contents in real time, but as soon as the user interacts with those to take benefits, they are deceived and Windows Defender Security Warning or similar traits manage to trigger in background. For those who are facing hassles caused by this infections object, this page is actually being hosted using Amazon AWS service, and commonly these services are utilized by hackers for their illicit purposes.

In case your system got this infection somehow, then you might being shown with a pop up or warning that a Trojan or spyware or some error has been detected on computer, and the users are blocked to access their machinne efficiently. Also, the warning includes that various private details are also compromised, and in order to restore such things, the users should contact a tech support team through its provided number. However, in case if you are getting prompted by these messages, then you should simply ignore those, and try to scan and clean your machine agaist any malicious PUP or adware if installed.

How Windows Defender Security Warning prolifertes on targeted computers?

As mentioned above, a user may end up to install and activate terms related to Windows Defender Security Warning on their machine while installing some freeware or shareware applications, clicking some links or ads, or while interacting with some online malicious objects. The criminals may use a number of deceptive marketing tricks to promote their malicious codes, and the users easily get tricked into considering such applications as useful. If you have found your machine suffering such impacts, then we suggest you to check and follow guidelines or methods under this article.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Windows Defender Security Warning:

Remove the related items of Windows Defender Security Warning using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Windows Defender Security Warning issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Windows Defender Security Warning) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Windows Defender Security Warning removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter.  In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Windows Defender Security Warning still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Windows Defender Security Warning plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”.  Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Windows Defender Security Warning removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Windows Defender Security Warning (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications.  Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.