How to Remove Worm:Win32/SillyShareCopy.E!inf Effectively

Basic Information about the Worm

Worm:Win32/SillyShareCopy.E!inf a is classified as a high-risk computer worm that infects your system to perform terrible actions in the background. The worm is believed to enter your computer without any awareness through social internet, freeware, shareware, spam emails and malicious links, etc. Upon infecting your computer, it will modify your system settings so as to do evil things freely in your computer. It has the capacity of hijacking and redirecting your browsers to unknown and malicious websites. Besides, it can secretly create a back door for all sorts of malware and install them onto your computer. Thus, your system will become more and more vulnerable and dangerous with these infections inside your computer. What’s worse, the worm has the ability to record your confidential information and precious data and then send to the remote hackers. Anyway, with this threat on your computer, you will find your computer become obviously slower and easier to be attacked by other infections. Therefore, considering the safety of your computer, it is advised that you remove Worm:Win32/SillyShareCopy.E!inf without any delay.

Tips to Avoid Being Infected Again

• Don’t download software from an untrustworthy source. If you really need to download a piece of software, run your antivirus program to scan for malware first.

• Before installing an application on your computer, you should carefully read the Agreement and avoid installing the “optional” crapware.

• Don’t click on pop up ads and suspicious links, for you may be linked to some malicious websites and further download malware onto your computer.

• Use caution when receiving an unexpected email, and do not open the attached files or click on the links.

• Don’t browse unsafe websites (such as porn sites and phishing sites). If you accidently click on some malicious links, it may get malware downloaded onto your computer.

Steps for Worm:Win32/SillyShareCopy.E!inf Manual Removal:

Step 1: Restart your computer and press the F8 key repeatedly. Select the “Safe Mode with Networking” option by using the arrow keys while the Windows menu appears. Then press the Enter key to proceed.

Step 2: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL together to open the Windows Task Manager. Click the “Processes” tab and start searching for the processes related to the worm. Then stop all of the malicious processes (usually they are namely randomly and occupy high CPU usage) immediately.

Step 3: Click the Start Orb and select Control Panel. Click Uninstall a Program under the Programs category. Search for any malicious programs and uninstall them from your computer.

Step 4: Click the Start Orb, in the search bar, type “folder options” and press Enter. When the Folder Options window pops up, please click the “View” tab. Then, under the “Advanced settings”, select the radio button labeled “Show hidden files, folders, and drives”, non-tick “Hide protecting operating system files (Recommended)” and click OK. This will show all hidden files and folders.

Step 5: Navigate to the local hard disk C, find out and delete the malicious files related to Worm:Win32/SillyShareCopy.E!inf.

%System%\autorun.ini
%Windir%\system3_.exe
%Windir%\Task\Atl.job
%System%\system3_.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

Step 6: Go to the Start menu, type “regedit” into the search bar, and press Enter. Then the registry editor will be opened. Search for and remove the malicious registry entries as follows:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “WarnonBadCertRecving” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ActiveDesktop “NoChangingWallPaper” = ’1′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations “LowRiskFileTypes” =
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ’1′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = ’1′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Download “CheckExeSignatures” = ‘no’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Use FormSuggest” = ‘yes’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced “Hidden” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced “ShowSuperHidden” = 0′

Step 7: Reboot your computer back to the normal mode and check whether Worm:Win32/SillyShareCopy.E!inf has been completely removed from your PC.

Note: The manual removal method does not always ensure the complete removal of the worm. There are always some reasons that lead to the failure of the removal; for example, users do not completely remove all malicious files or registry entries. Moreover, manually removing the worm is a difficult and risky task, since users need to manually search for and delete all malicious components related to worm from the infected computer. If any mistakes are made during the process, it would cause some unexpected system damage. Therefore, if you have no sufficient computer skills, it is not suggested that you remove the worm in the manual method. To be safe, we highly recommend that get rid of Worm:Win32/SillyShareCopy.E!inf by using a professional removal tool which is able to thoroughly detect and remove the worm related files and registry entries from your computer. Still annoyed by the malicious worm? Cannot remove it on your own? Why not download and use a powerful removal tool to remove it?