Did you get a Trojan, Backdoor.Cloworm on your computer without your notice? You can’t remove it by Norton or other security application? You can still see this infection again after it was removed by your antivirus program? Why? What should you do now? Is there any way to remove this Trojan completely?
Backdoor.Cloworm is a newly created Trojan virus which can infected your computer system without your attention. Why did cyber criminals create this Trojan? Will they get profit? Of cause, they will. This virus used to attack computer users who are with poor computer protection knowledge. Once it installed on your system, will it do anything good for you? Will it damage your system completely? Is it safe to ignore it on your computer when you detect it? Oh, no. You can’t do that. Once you detect this virus on your computer, the best way to protect your computer is to get rid of this Trojan immediately.
How do you get Backdoor.Cloworm on your computer? Do you notice that? What will it do after it installed on your computer? Let’s take a look at how hackers distribute this Trojan on your computer. Hackers distribute this virus by using a third party application. You may get this Trojan after you downloaded some infected free application, visited suspicious websites such as porn webs, clicked on infected ads or pop-ups. Once this Trojan installed, it will create lots of computer traffic for you. Firstly, it will monitor your computer and then interrupt your online activities again and again. Secondly, it will change your important system files, such as DNS settings, browser settings and registry and so on. Thirdly, it may also disable your antivirus application and destroy your security system. It opens a backdoor for other infections to get into your computer, such as worm, malware, adware, spyware, etc. Now you can see, once you get this Trojan on your computer, if you don’t remove it from your computer in time, then you may leave a disaster on your computer. Well, in order to protect your computer, you are strongly recommended to get rid of this Trojan as soon as you detect it.
1. Desktop background image and Browser homepage settings are changed. Google, Yahoo Searches are redirected.
2. It may slow down your computer considerably and you will feel like your computer is stuck. This includes opening programs, shutting down your computer, and slow Internet.
3. It is capable to corrupt your windows registry and uses it to deploy annoying pop up ads out of nowhere. You will get many unwanted pop-ups on your computer.
Note: No matter how the virus accesses your PC, users should know that there are no tools can remove this pesky Trojan automatically at this moment, it is suggested users not spend much time in downloading or paying any security software which claims can delete this stubborn virus. It is totally useless. To completely get rid of Backdoor.Cloworm, professional manual guide is needed.
Currently many computer users had the same experience that this virus couldn’t be removed by any anti-virus applications. So the manual approach is always required to combat this virus. And here is the step-by-step removal guide for all computer users.
1. End the malicious process from Task Manager.
Backdoor.Cloworm is installed,computer user may notice that CPU usage randomly jumps to 100 percent. At any time Windows always has many running processes. A process is an individual task that the computer runs. In general, the more processes, the more work the computer has to do and the slower it will run. If your system’s CPU spike is constant and remain at a constant 90-95%, users should check from Task Manager and see if there is a suspicious process occupying system resources and then end it immediately.
(The name of the virus process can be random.)
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to quickly bring up Task Manager Window：
2. Show hidden files and folders.
Open Folder Options by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Folder Options.
Click the View tab.
Under Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders, uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.
3. Open Registry entries. Find out the malicious files and entries and then delete all.
Attention: Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
a. Press Windows key + R to open Run box. In the “Open” field, type “regedit” and click the “OK” button.
Then a Registry Editor window will pop up as the following picture shows:
b. Search malicious files and registry entries and then remove all of them:
%AllUsersProfile%\[random]
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\[random]
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
From the above analysis, it is known to all that Backdoor.Cloworm is a malicious and high-risk computer infection which should be removed as soon as you detect it on your computer. Some innocent computer users used to download free things online, visit some unknown websites, watch porn videos online, click on automatic ads/pop-ups. Once they did these actions, they may give the chance for the virus to get into their computer. Once installed, this Trojan may become a great disaster to your computer. Lots of pop-ups and ads will be distributed to chock up your computer. Kinds of unknown stuff will run automatically as soon as you boot your system. If you start your window task manager, you may find that your CPU is nearly used up even you just booted your computer a few minutes ago. Your computer gets stuck so often. Do you want to you use your computer normally? Here is the way—removing Backdoor.Cloworm from your computer as soon as you detect on your computer with using manual removal guide.
Note: Still have trouble in removing this virus? If you don’t want to mess up your whole PC, Please contact YooCare Experts for instant help now.
Published by on February 22, 2016 1:24 pm, last updated on February 22, 2016 1:24 pm
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