Hey, my user account has been infected with the Trojan:Win32/Wysotot.gen!A virus. As far as you concern, can antivirus like Norton or Avastl remove this Trojan horse and recover my things back once and for all? I think maybe manual removal can get rid of it. But I am not a computer savvy, is there any help for me to remove the nasty virus? Can you manually remove it completely? If not, what should I do to get rid of it?
Trojan:Win32/Wysotot.gen!A is a malicious Trojan virus which brings disaster to the infected computer. After the operation, it gets accessed to the system files, attaches itself is in the system directory and duplicates itself secretly on the infected computer. It copies itself to the specified directory with a random name. The file name is usually generated by random. The virus opens the service control manager, changes the startup type, and automatically attaches to service process to affect operating system rapidly. This means it can automatically start up with the whole system after the startup type is changed. Subsequently, variants available information, including the name of the computer, the operating system, version of the processor type, and the size of the memory will be packed, and then sent to hacked servers.
In addition, the virus is composed of many new techniques which is difficult to be detected or deleted by security program. It goes quietly through different ways, for example, bundling with other malicious software, using free downloading links to make intrusion and, accessing from the spam mail the social networking sites and some unknown resource. Your desktop background, Internet Explorer default settings and other important setting is reluctantly and forcibly changed by this virus. When you find it in the full scan, you should remove it as soon as possible.
Win32/Wysotot.gen!A allows cyber-criminals to break into the infected computer without being noticed and it could disable executable programs installed on your computer and cause system crash. Also it will change important settings on your computer to allow remote control from cyber criminals. Other than that, it will modify your registry settings and important key value to make it difficult to be removed. As soon as you use Norton to remove it, you will get an error saying that Remove Failed just like the following picture shows:
Manual removal is a complicated and risky process, so please back up all important data before making any changes on your computer. Here are some instructions to handle with the Trojan horse manually, and be cautious when going through the following steps.
Step1. Show Hidden Files
(1). Press Win+R to get run option
(2). Type in Control Panel and hit enter to get Control Panel
(3). Click on Appearance and Personalization link
(3). Click on Folder Options link
(4). Click on View tab in Folder Options window
(5). Tick Show hidden files, folders, and drives under Hidden files and folders tab
(6). Click Apply to effect, then click OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window.
Step2. Stop virus processes in the Windows Task Manager.
(1). Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together to get Windows Task Manager
(2). Click More details
Step3. Remove all the malicious files registry entries through Registry Edit.
Win32/Wysotot.gen!A is a malicious Trojan virus which implants itself to the infected computer secretly and makes your computer and other working process slowly during infection. It can install the itself into the computer system without your awareness and consciousness. To make matters worse, the Trojan is used as a tool for hackers to achieve hacking purpose to steal your information. It is recommended to remove it with a complete and fast procedure. Users can follow instruction here to have it manual deleted instantly.
(1). Using Registry Editor to delete all the related registry entries.
*Guides to open Registry Editor:
Press Win+R key together then Registry Editor will pop up.
(2). Find out and remove the associated files of Trojan:Win32/Wysotot.gen!A
Step 4. Clear all the malicious cookies in browsers.
* Google Chrome: Click on the Tools menu → select Options → Click “Under the bonnet” tab → locate “Privacy” section → browsing data” button → “Delete cookies and other site data” to delete all cookies from the list.
* Internet Explorer: Click “Tools” → Click “safety” → “delete browsing history” → Tick “cookies” box and click delete
* Firefox:: Click “Tools” → Click “Options” → Click “Privacy” → Click “remove individual cookies”
Trojan:Win32/Wysotot.gen!A is hard to be removed by the security tools since it has the ability to modify system settings on the registry. PC users will experience a slow performance on the infected computer, which means the PC users will have to spend more time on doing an action on the infected machine. It can decrease the level of security so that other virus infections can attack as well, and that is the reason that PC users will suffer different virus infections after being infected by Trojan.Dorkbot.ED virus process. The information on the infected computer can be in a high-risk situation of being stolen if PC users can not remove it and keep the infected PC safe. Since the anti-virus program can not get rid of this virus completely, it I recommended that PC users should clean this threat in a manual removal way.
Friendly Reminder: If you have problems to remove this nightmare, please contact YooCare experts 24/7 online in time to resolve the problem completely.
Published by on May 19, 2014 11:02 pm, last updated on May 19, 2014 11:02 pm
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