Since, writing and making FixIEDef available to the general public; free of charge of course; I’m starting to get some feed back from users that were infected by this piece of fraudware.

Comments can be viewed here: http://blog.malwareteks.com/?p=163#comments.

Also started receiving email feed back.

Rick said:

Dear ShadowPuterDude,

I just wanted to extend a thank-you for taking a stand against those assholes at IE Defender and not only calling them out on the carpet but by writing and providing the FixIEDef utility. I was infected the first time and was able to find the .dll that was causing the problem and delete it. But not two days later a new version that was almost impossible to correct and had me ready to throw my laptop out the window. I am a bit of a tech guy and this virus kicked my ass and had me on my last nerve as my IE was useless because the error message would not go away. I wrote to the IE Defender guys and got an e-mail back saying that they don’t hijack systems they fix them…… I found your script and I had everything fixed in moments. So again thank-you for your time and effort to help guys like me deal with a very nasty problem. You have a new fan and supporter of your site and what you do.

Sincerely, Rick <Last Name Removed>

Email message edited for format and spelling.

So, In you face! IE Defender.

FixIEDef can be download from the following locations:

Primary Download location:
MalwareTeks: http://downloads.malwareteks.com/FixIEDef.exe

Download Mirrors for FixIEDef:
http://it-mate.co.uk/downloads/fixiedef/fixiedef.exe
http://hosts-file.net/download/fixiedef/fixiedef.exe
http://avant.it-mate.co.uk/?c=Download&f=Tools/FixIEDef
http://archives.mysteryfcm.co.uk/?f=Security/AntiMalware/Antispyware/F ixIEDef

Instructions: See http://www.malwareteks.com/FixIEDef.php