Your computer is being plagued by the problemscaused by Trojan.Yather? What can you do to remove it? Don’t want to spend a lot of money repairing the computer at a local computer shop? Here are effective methods to deal with the Trojan.
Trojan.Yather is a new variation of Trojan virus. Some well-known antivirus programs like Norton, Avast and MSE can detect this nasty Trojan. It is able to make a mess of your computer and steal valuable data on the computer. Canny Trojan inventor uses it to break into your computer through system vulnerabilities and take control of your system. The Trojan is a data-stealing Trojan. It was created with the motive of finding out sensitive information that could be sold out at high price to the other organizations. Apart from stealing critical information, this nasty Trojan will also undermine a system by releasing harmful javaw.exe file, configuring the server automatically and introducing malicious code.
How does Trojan.Yather infect a computer?
The Trojan does not spread by itself and it is a perfect example of a downloader-type Trojan. It might come in the form of a computer game downloaded from a hijacked website. It can be disguised as legitimate email attachments. Trojan horses can get onto systems through browser vulnerabilities. For example, ActiveX controls are commonly uploaded to hacked websites in order to infect visitors. In most cases, user input is required for this to work. This means downloading and starting a program or plug-in.
The Trojan does not spread by itself and it is a perfect example of a downloader-type Trojan. It might come in the form of a computer game downloaded from a hijacked website. It can be disguised as legitimate email attachments. Trojan horses can get onto systems through browser vulnerabilities. For example, ActiveX controls are commonly uploaded to hacked websites in order to infect visitors. In most cases, user input is required for this to work. This means downloading and starting a program or plug-in.
How dangerous is the virus?
It enables the virus makers to access your computer remotely without letting you know.
It may cause system crash and disable your executable programs.
It may attract other threats including adware parasites and spyware into your computer.
It has the ability to spy on your browsing history and other important data.
It enables the virus makers to access your computer remotely without letting you know.
It may cause system crash and disable your executable programs.
It may attract other threats including adware parasites and spyware into your computer.
It has the ability to spy on your browsing history and other important data.
Trojan.Yather Manual Removal Guides:
Step1: Enter Safe Mode with Networking
Reboot your computer and keep pressing the F8 button on your keyboard before windows launches. When the Windows Advanced Options Menu appears, select “Safe Mode with Networking” and then press the Enter key.
Step 2: Show hidden files and folders to remove suspicious and virulent items generated by the Trojan.
*Windows 8
1) Open File Explorer on the Start Screen.
1) Open File Explorer on the Start Screen.
2) Navigate to View tab and Tick ‘File name extensions’ and ‘Hidden items’ option.2
3) Navigate to C:\windows\winstart.bat, C:\windows\wininit.ini and C:\windows\Autoexec.bat to find and delete every files and folders named after the Trojan.
4) Navigate to Root directory under C Disk, remove any item that is not familiar to you and is created on the day the Trojan was detected.
5) Remove files in c:\\windows created on the day the Trojan was detected and are not seen before.
6) Remove files in system32 folder created on the day the Trojan was detected and are ended with weird extension, for example, ‘msconfig.com’.
7) Remove all temp folders under System32.
5) Remove files in c:\\windows created on the day the Trojan was detected and are not seen before.
6) Remove files in system32 folder created on the day the Trojan was detected and are ended with weird extension, for example, ‘msconfig.com’.
7) Remove all temp folders under System32.
*Windows 7/XP/Vista
1) Bring up ‘Folder Options’ window from ‘Control Panel’ .
1) Bring up ‘Folder Options’ window from ‘Control Panel’ .
2) Browse toView tab and tick ‘Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)’ option.
3)Press ‘OK’ button to finish.
3)Press ‘OK’ button to finish.
Step 3: Exterminate running process of items generated by the Trojan.
*Windows 7/XP/Vista
1) Hold Ctrl +Alt +Delete key combination together to bring up Task Manager window.
2) Browse to View tab and select ‘Show Kernel Times’/ ‘Select Process Page Columns’ option.
Tick PID (Process Identifier) and press OK button.
1) Hold Ctrl +Alt +Delete key combination together to bring up Task Manager window.
2) Browse to View tab and select ‘Show Kernel Times’/ ‘Select Process Page Columns’ option.
Tick PID (Process Identifier) and press OK button.
3) Find ‘LSASS.exe’ for its image of the User Account which does nor belong to system.
4) Back to desktop and press Win key and R key at once.
5) Put in ‘CMD’ and press Enter key.
6) Type ‘ntsd –c q -p (PID, the number you saw on Task Manager)’ (without quotation marks).
Press Enter key.
7) Repeat the same process as depicted above.
4) Back to desktop and press Win key and R key at once.
5) Put in ‘CMD’ and press Enter key.
6) Type ‘ntsd –c q -p (PID, the number you saw on Task Manager)’ (without quotation marks).
Press Enter key.
7) Repeat the same process as depicted above.
Step 4: Delete registry files related to the Trojan.
1) Hold and press Win key and R key to open the Run command box, when the the box pop up type ‘regedit’ into it.
1) Hold and press Win key and R key to open the Run command box, when the the box pop up type ‘regedit’ into it.
2) Enter key follows up to enable database window.
3) Navigate to the below registries respectively to find suspicious key value started with“Run” and delete accordingly:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ‘1’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ‘0’
The Trojan is a very hateful and harmful computer virus. It can bypass security software since its inventor uses Rootkit technology to make it sophisticated and advanced. People may get infected with the virus when they perform some unsafe activities online, such as opening suspicious websites, downloading free programs from unknown resources or reading spam emails. As soon as it infects a computer, Trojan will begin to modify registry entries so that it can execute automatically when the computer starts. It is a big threat because it can deteriorate a computer. It also enables cyber criminals to access your computer quietly and perform some malicious behaviors such as disclosing your personal information to strangers. If you find Trojan.Yather, get rid of it in time to ensure the safety of your system files and to prevent further losses.
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