Feb 5, 2013

Win32/Phorpiex Virus Removal Guide

The antivirus detects a high-risk threat called Win32/Phorpiex Trojan in your computer, but cannot get rid of it completely? This post will show you how to remove this virus manually from your computer.

Definition of Win32/Phorpiex Trojan:

Win32/Phorpiex Virus is a harmful Trojan infection that has targeted many users’ computers from the worldwide. The Trojan horse is a great threat to users from worldwide as it mainly spreads through network. It penetrates into unknown users’ computers during their improper web browsing activities. Other Trojans also corrupt your computer terribly without any control. For  instance, Win32/Patched.HF can affect your system and programs very much, making you so worried about the computer situation. Once infected, the computer gets poor Internet connection and system performance. Also the affected computer will come across unexpected computer freezing and system crash issue. Files and programs of your computer may be corrupted, too. Furthermore, the Trojan horse invades your computer along with other types of computer threats, such as malware, spyware and adware parasites. To invade your computer deeply and make you even mad, the Trojan disables your normal programs and creates obstacles for you to make them functional. With such an urgent issue, it is high time for you to eliminate the Trojan virus manually and completely.

Win32/Phorpiex Trojan usually infects computer users via spam email messages that contain links to when you download it. Once the link is clicked, computers will be infected and start acting weird. Also, computer users can be infected via Trojan dropper or when browsing webpage with hidden codes. Besides, free installation or software downloads that are bundled with this virus as well. All in all, it is really a disaster for all the compromised PC. So you have to get rid of it as quickly as possible if your computer infected this Trojan.

Don’t have enough skill to deal with this virus? The following instructions require better computer skills to deal with program files and registry entries. If you’re not sure on how to delete this hijacker, please contact YooCare 24/7 Online Expert now to save your computer immediately!

It is extremely dangerous. It can perform the following evil actions once it accesses a target computer:

A. Your computer is something not normal as usual such as running very slowly.

B. When you open the Task Manager, you can find some strange progress which you never found before.

C. Some of your computer functions are unavailable or some normal legal program can’t run or there are unusual conditions of them.

D. It always constantly happens that your system has errors somewhere.

E. Lately, your computer system will be totally destroyed.

How To Manually Remove This Nasty Trojan Virus?

Step 1: Open Task Manager and end the malicious processes related to this virus

Use the following key combination: press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to open the Windows Task Manager.
Select “Processes” tab on the Windows Task Manager in order to view active processes. Find a malicious process by its name, select it and click the “End process” button to terminate it.

(Note: The name of the infected process can change randomly so that it can pretend as a legitimate process and escape from the detection of your antivirus programs. If you cannot figure out which one is the malicious process related to the virus, you can contact YooCare Online Expert for help.)

Step2. a. Show all the hidden files and then clear infected files creating by this pesky virus:

To show hidden files, just click on the Organize button in any folder, and then select “Folder and Search Options” from the menu.

Click the View tab, and then you should select “Show hidden files and folders” in the list.

Just select that, and click OK.

b. Delete the associated files of this threat as follow:

%AppData%\Random.exe
%temp%

Step3. Delete all the malicious registry entries in Registry Editor

Click the Start menu
Click Run
Type “regedit” and click Ok.

Once the Registry Editor is opened, find out the following registry entries and then delete them:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Video Shows You How to Safely Modify Windows Registry Editor:

In conclusion: As the above mentioned, Win32/Phorpiex Virus virus can is a great threat to users’ computers as it is designed to damage victimized computer terribly. Usually, it gets into victims’ computers once they again access to malicious websites, spam emails or download dangerous programs without any notice. This Trojan may cause your computer performs very slowly and Internet disconnected frequently. If you keep this Trojan in your computer too long, you will face with many unexpected troubles when performing computer tasks. Many users may try to delete the Trojan horse with their advanced anti-virus software. However, the anti-virus software may not function very smoothly to detect or delete the Trojan entirely as it is disabled by the virus to take effective. In such a situation, you need to remove the Trojan manually at an early time. Thus, please contact YooCare: PC experts 24/7 online will help you get rid of the stubborn Trojan virus safely and successfully.

Special Tips: It is strongly recommended to remove this virus manually with expertise, because any mistake due to lacking of computer knowledge could lead to more damages till system goes crash down. And if you still cannot successfully get rid of this virus by the above instructions, please contact YooCare 24/7 Online Expert now for a fast and professional help.

Published by & last updated on February 5, 2013 11:31 am

Leave a Reply

Problems with your PC, Mac or mobile device?

Live Chat Now

Thanks for using YooCare Services!

Here're some of the support team members who are passionate about their works and support our customers 24/7.

As Seen On