Dec 11, 2015

Trojan.Wipbot!gen3 Removal Guide

Last week, I downloaded computer games from the internet to my brand new Sony laptop. After I installed the game, then started to play, thing went weird. While I was playing the game, I was warned by Norton that there is a virus called Trojan.Wipbot!gen3 in my computer. I was shocked. I knew that this stuff is a bad virus that can damage my system, so I uninstalled all the programs so as to save my computer. However, with days of fighting, my anti-virus still can’t remove the virus completely. How do I fix it? Please help! Thank you very much!

Computer Be Infected By Trojan.Wipbot!gen3 — How to Remove?

Trojan.Wipbot!gen3 is an aggressive and dangerous Trojan horse virus which has the ability to corrupt all kinds of windows computer, such as windows 10, windows7, windows 8, windows 8.1, windows XP, windows vista and so on. This malicious virus is designed and distributed on the Internet by cyber criminals. How do the hackers distribute the virus on the Internet? As we all know that most of computer users would like to download free applications or watch videos online. Hacker may aims at this loophole. Usually, this virus may be bundled into shareware and free software installation package. Hence, when you download the freeware package, the virus will get the chance to get into your computer. Besides, hackers may attach this virus to some suspicious websites or links. If you click on the link or visit that of web by accident, you may get this virus into your computer as well. This virus is cunning as it will seek for any opportunity on the Internet for diving into your computer easily. Except the above mentioned way, the virus may get into your computer with the help of spam email as well as its attachment. If you read or respond the hacked email, the virus will be automatically installed on your computer without your permission.

Trojan.Wipbot!gen3 virus can severely corrupt computer, which also is a big threat to your personal privacy stored on computer disk. Once this virus installed on your computer, it may be capable of opening a backdoor for the remote hackers to get access to your compromised computer and then take control of your whole computer activities. The remote hackers may monitor all your online actions and then pilfer your sensitive data such as bank account information, credit card data, log-in user-name and password and so on. With the leaked private data, you may suffer from privacy reveal or financial loss in future. What’s more, this Trojan has the ability to install lots of unwanted shortcut on your desktop. You can’t uninstall these virus-related apps completely until you remove this Trojan clearly. Furthermore, this virus may affect your computer security system such as disabling your antivirus program, damage your firewall. As soon as you start your infected computer, lots of unwanted programs will run themselves automatically without your consent. Large part of your system CPU will be taken up. So, your computer performance will be degraded by a large extend. Therefore, if you detected Trojan.Wipbot!gen3 on your computer, you must take immediate action (manual removal way) to get rid of this Trojan as early as you can.

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!

What Will This Trojan Actually Do 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.Wipbot!gen3, professional manual guide is needed.

About 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.Wipbot!gen3 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

Trojan.Wipbot!gen3 is a dangerous computer infection which often arrives as an dive into your system while you are installing unsafe programs or visiting suspicious websites (porn webs). Once installed, this Trojan may control your Internet browsers (Internet attached file to spam email messages pretending as worthy material from a reputable company. If you read the email, you get this virus into your computer. This virus also can Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc.) by altering search results and gaining online profit for its authors. As soon as you boot your computer, it may run itself and conduct lots of activities at your background. This virus is a great potential threat on your infected computer, which must be removed in the first place when you found it on your system. In a word, if you detect this infected or its related threats on your computer, you should remove it as early as you can. It is said that only manual removal way can get rid of this stubborn virus effectively and 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 & last updated on December 11, 2015 6:30 am

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