Oct 31, 2016

How to remove Trojan.Korplug!lnk virus?

Hey, there? I have an urgent issue!! Can you help? Two days ago, my computer still worked well. But last night, it became rather slow and broke down at last. I restarted it again and again. Nothing became better. It was late so I left the issue to this morning. I learned from the internet it might be caused by virus, so I used my antivirus program to scan and find the Trojan.Korplug!lnk, but I just fail to delete it completely, every time I kill it, the antivirus program report it again. Please help!!!

More Description of the Trojan.Korplug!lnk Trojan Virus.

Trojan.Korplug!lnk, recognized as another malicious computer program recently by many antivirus programs, is actually a Trojan virus. Like many other Trojan virus, it causes a plenty of troubles and bothers computer users all over the world in a dangerous way. It can conquer all kinds of Windows operating systems by taking the advantage of the system loop holes in the computer. Trojan.Korplug!lnk starts to damage your computer and impose greater threats on you from when it successfully breaks into your system. It will seriously affect the performance of the computer and make it work really slowly. Many computer users find their computers infected by scanning only after the computer becomes extremely slow. In some bad case,Trojan.Korplug!lnk can totally damage the computer and make it completely useless if it is given long time to stay on your system. To damage your computer is not its final goal. What it wants to reach is your sensitive information such as debit card and credit card details, Paypal information and other banking information, your computer login credentials and credentials of online shopping malls. These information may be collected by a spyware like a keylogger installed by the virus on your system and they will be passed to the remote hackers for their illegal purposes by e-mail or other secret means.

Many users find their computers get infected with Trojan.Korplug!lnk Trojan virus only after the performance of computers has been serious damaged and the system becomes annoying slow. This is because, to protect the virus from being detected and killed by antivirus programs, the hackers have designed the virus to be good at hiding itself from all kinds of popular antivirus tools. And this really makes the situation worse for the infected computers. Because the longer the virus stays, the more damages it will cause.

Processing manual removal should have a certain level of computer literacy. If you are not sure how to start or afraid of making any critical damage on the computer system, please open a live chat with YooCare Expert now!

How the Mentioned Trojan Virus Sneak into Your Computer?

Trojan.Korplug!lnk Trojan virus can be distributed in many ways. If you fancy about downloading and installing sharewares or freewares, you need to pay more attention to preventing it from sneaking into your computer because spreading by getting included in the installer of a seemingly reliable freeware or shareware is the most common distribution way for most Trojan viruses. And Trojan.Korplug!lnk is no exception. If you use USB storages a lot to manage your data like copying a financial excel table from a computer to your own Mac, moving precious photos from an old computer to a new computer by using the USB storage, it is recommended to scan the USB storage with your antivirus programs or other security tools to check whether the storage carrys Trojan.Korplug!lnk or not before any operation. And it is better to establish the habit of using the USB storage in a proper and safe way to help you stay away from all kinds of Trojan viruses.

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 the mentioned virus, professional manual guide is needed.

About the Trojan Virus Removal:

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.
Trojan.Korplug!lnk virus 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:

task manager
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.

Folder Options

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.

Run

Then a Registry Editor window will pop up as the following picture shows:

registry editor

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

Video Shows You How to Safely Modify Windows Registry Editor:

Conclusion

The Trojan.Korplug!lnk is another violent Trojan virus which you should pay more attention to. It can not only beak down your computer, but also steal your sensitive information for illegal use. There is no doubt that more damages and losses will be caused if you fail to detect it and remove it completely out of your computer system. Sharewares, freewares and infected USB storage may become the way your computer get infected with the Trojan.Korplug!lnk. So if you can stay away from the seemingly friendly sharewares and freewares and establish a good habit of using USB storages in a safe way, you will undoubtedly be much safer from such virus. The Trojan.Korplug!lnk virus is designed to be good at hiding itself. It can even escape from detecting and being killed by some safety tools. Therefore, to be able to thoroughly delete the Trojan.Korplug!lnk virus, we suggest you turn to an expert for help. Because an expert is able to make use of different tools and different methods to help you systematically check your system and remove the virus out of your computer completely without any residue left accordingly before more damages are brought about.

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 & last updated on October 31, 2016 5:53 pm

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