Tuesday, May 13, 2014

How to Get Rid of Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A

Do you receive an alert about Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A infection from your antivirus program? This Trojan horse can severely corrupt the system and potentially steal your personal data and information, so you have to remove it immediately. Don’t want to drag your computer to a local repair store and spend some money to have this Trojan horse removed? Why not read this post and learn how to effectively get rid of Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A from your computer?
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Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A is a Tr`ojan horse recently detected by some reputable antivirus programs like Eset NOD32, McAfee VirusScan and Norton AntiVirus. This Trojan horse is designed for the purpose of obtaining illegal gains and it can result in a complete system disruption and personal information or data theft. Generally, XXX can make use of the vulnerabilities of your system to break into the PC when you visit some websites, such as porn sites and gambling sites, which contains a pile of malicious advertisements. Also, this Trojan horse can come from other infected program. To prevent the attack from this Trojan horse, you may need to be aware of the drive-by downloads and spam email attachments.
After getting into the computer, the Trojan horse starts to inject its own entries to the Windows registry, so that it can automatically run once the Windows logs on. It will also modify system settings and shut down some important programs, especially the antivirus programs, so that it can prevent antivirus scanner from detecting its malicious codes and files. So, sometimes, even the antivirus program cannot detect and delete it. After getting infected by Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A, your computer may experience some serious problems, for examples, constant Blue Screen of Death, sudden shutdown or restarting itself, which may cause your data loss and even hardware issues. Also, this Trojan horse may download other dangerous malware into the system with the aims of completely controlling the system where you store your private information and commercial files. Moreover, it can allow the remote hackers to visit your computer with ease. The hackers can freely browse anything on your computer, including files, pictures, videos and others, and they even steal your important data as well as sensitive information for bad purposes. Anyway, the longer this Trojan horse stays on your computer, the more damage and loss you will suffer. So, you have to eliminate it from your computer promptly.

Manual Removal Guide:

To manually remove Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A and put your computer back on track, you need to stop the processes associated with the Trojan horse via the task manager, and finally delete the files and registry entries associated with the Trojan horse. But please note that the manual removal require certain levels of computer skills. If you are a novice user, we do not recommend you to use this way, since any unintentional mistake will lead to unwanted consequences.
Step 1: Reboot your computer and tap the F8 key repeatedly until the Window menu appears. Use the arrow key to highlight “Safe Mode with Networking” and then press Enter to proceed.
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Step 2: Press keys CTRL+ALT+DEL to run the Windows Task Manager. Go to “Processes”, search for and stop any malicious processes related to Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A.
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Step 3: Go to the Start menu, type “folder options” into the search bar and click on “Folder Option” in the search results. Select the tab of “View” and under the “Advanced settings”, choose the “Show hidden files, folders and drives” option and uncheck the “Hide protecting operating system files (Recommended)”. Click OK and this will show all hidden files and folders.
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Folder Options-view
Step 4: Go to the local disk C to search for and delete the files as follows:
open local hard disk C
%Program Files%\random.exe
%UserProfile%\Desktop\.lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu\.lnk
%UserProfile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\random.exe
Step 5: Press Windows Key + R key, type “regedit” into the pop-up box and press Enter. Then the Registry Editor will be opened. Search for and clean up the malicious registry entries injected by Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A:
Windows + R
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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[Trojan horse name]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Step 6: Reboot your computer into the normal mode after all steps above are finished.

Automatic Removal Guide:

If you find it difficult to follow the removal guide above, please download and install an automatic removal tool and use it to automatically clean up Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A from your computer. This way is much easier, safer and more effective than the manual removal way.
Step 1: Restart your PC into the “Safe Mode with Networking”.
Step 2: Download an advanced removal tool and install it on your computer.
Step 3: Run the removal tool to perform a deep scan of your system.
Step 4: After the scan, remove all found threats out of your computer completely.
Step 5: Reboot computer to make the changes take effect.

Conclusion

Trojan:Win32/Kilaservos.A is a malicious Trojan horse that can badly damage your system and even seal your confidential information for malicious purposes. This Trojan horse is usually downloaded onto your computer via spam emails, freeware, suspicious links and unsafe websites. It can do much harm to your computer system, making it almost unusable. The earlier you remove it, the less damage the computer will suffer. You can follow the removal guide given above to remove it. But bear in mind the manual removal method is not recommended to novice users. A slight mistake could lead to severe system problems. So, using an automatic removal tool will be a better option, if you are not skilled at computer.

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