Hi, there. I was listening to the English News broadcast on the Internet. Just with a sudden, a popup came into my eyes with the message saying that my computer is hacked and it is in a high risk. Then I did a full scan on my computer. Nothing was found there. So I ignored the message. However, a couple of days later, I found that my computer was running more and more slowly even though I only open a window. It was so weird. My computer just had bought for only one year. A light in my mind brought me to the pop-up message. Now I believe that my computer is really hacked by a virus. Norton told me that it is a Trojan which named Trojan.Pandex!inf. Oh, my dear! What should I do with this malicious virus? Please help! Thank you.
Trojan.Pandex!inf is a malicious Trojan which is created by cyber criminals to attack Windows computer users like Windows7, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Once this Trojan comes into your computer, it may conduct lots of malicious activities on your system at once. Usually, this vicious Trojan may get into your computer with the use of bundling itself to the spam emails attachments, unwanted freeware downloads, like videos and other free software programs, as well we suspicious websites. The virus’s code would be spread through this kind of channels. As a result, you may not have an idea for when and how you get this malicious Trojan into your computer, until you are told about it or you find something strange happen on your computer.
What kind of symptoms will show you that your computer is infected by Trojan.Pandex!inf? In this paragraph, we will learn something about what kind of things this Trojan does on your computer. This Trojan is a generic detection for a harmful file that is normally used by cyber criminals to distribute separate virus infection into compromised computer system. After the installation of this infection, it may take control of your online actions immediately and then spread other viruses on your system, as it has the ability connect to specified command and control (C&C) server. The download virus files are difficult to be identified because of random file names they are utilizing. Otherwise, this Trojan later may infects your files rpcss.dll for the sake of initiating its command each time when you start Windows. Moreover, this Trojan is capable of altering settings of your default browser and homepage. So, you may be redirected to some unwanted and suspicious web page when you start to browse the Internet. Last but not the least, if you don’t remove this virus in time when you find it, your computer performance may be decreased day by day. Hence, you are highly recommended to get rid of Trojan.Pandex!inf as soon as you detect it on your computer.
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 Trojan.Pandex!inf, 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.
Once Trojan.Pandex!inf 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
Trojan.Pandex!inf is classified to the Trojan family which is a malicious computer infection. This virus sometime can’t be detected by general antivirus programs. Once this Trojan installed on your computer, if you don’t remove it in time, it may make lots of chaos on your system. It can act as a platform for other infections to get into your computer easily. Due to this infection, your computer as well as your privacy may face a great threat. Once you detected this stubborn Trojan, manual removal is as the only effective way to get rid of this virus. Manual removal process requires removal expertise as it is so complicated. During this process, if any one mistake may mess up your whole computer. So if you don’t have this kind of computer technology skill, you are suggested to turn to YooCare online expert in order to remove this virus completely.
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 2, 2015 2:52 am, last updated on February 2, 2015 2:52 am
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