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Win32.Dofoil Removal Guide - Working Solution

by Elizabeth Wood IT stuff

I have found a Trojan named Win32.Dofoil from the system folders last night. It was detected by my AVG, but it couldn't be removed by AVG. I wanted to remove it by using some fixing tools, but nothing works. I have attempted to use other antivirus programs to resolve this problem, but things ended up unsuccessfully. This virus is so stubborn. How can I remove this Trojan horse effectively? Who can tell me how to remove this nasty threat completely and easily?

Description of Win32.Dofoil:

Win32.Dofoil, as its name says, is classified as a Trojan horse that belongs to Trojan family. Generally, this type of Trojan virus comes along with free internet resources like free applications. Lots of Trojan horses enable the original icon of free software to become a very seductive file name and a similar double suffix such as TXT.EXE, JPG.EXE in order to succeed in seducing users to run a Trojan. By using one of the characteristics of Windows operating system as its name, the Trojan successfully confuses people and makes them unable to remove it. Users will thought it as a normal document or a process by mistake and open it unintentionally. People have difficult in detect the Trojan with their eyes. If a hacker succeeded in tricking computer users running the Trojan program, it is possible that he control the computer. So, the hacker will try every way to achieve his aim of implanting the Trojan horse into the targeted computer system. It's a good choice to use antivirus to operate a system full scan. The detection of antivirus depends on the technique of sensing malicious codes, so for preventing from antivirus detection, the hackers tend to insert the codes into Trojan program in case the codes are deleted by antivirus, in such way the Trojan can deceive antivirus and avoid antivirus killing Trojans.

The purpose of this Trojan not to destruct computer data, but to steal computer users' information including login passwords, account Numbers game, credit card number, online bank accounts,and many others. In the old days, Trojan horses were just written and spread to play tricks on users or pry into their privacy. Creators of Trojan horses used to write Trojan horses and distribute them for spying out other people's privacy or pranks. With the intention of stealing confidential information, this Trojan horse will be designed to have the ability to break through many obstacles and finally get into your computer. It is not wise for you to leave such a malicious threat in your machine; if you want to protect your personal information, remove it from your computer quickly.

Please follow the guides bellow, but it requires certain levels of computer knowledge and skills. If you are lack of computer knowledge, it is strongly recommended to remove this Trojan with automatic removal tool.

How dangerous is the Trojan horse?

1. Provide access to the cyber hacker to get on your workstation unnoticeably. 2. It can make the system corrupted and destroy your executable programs. 3. It invites additional harmful computer threats including malware, adware parasites and spyware into your computer. 4. It traces browsing history and collects confidential information & valuable data.

Step 1. Change the Folder settings and show hidden files

(1). Click the Start button and go to Control Panel

(2). Click the Appearance and Personalization link

(3). Hit the Folder Options link

(4). Click the View tab in the Folder Options window

(5). Select the Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category

(6). Click OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window.

Step 2. Delete the registry entries and files created by the Trojan.

(1). Remove the related registry entries

Open registry editor by clicking "Start" menu,typing "regedit" in the "Run" box and then clicking "OK" button.

While the Registry Editor is open, search for and delete the following registry entries showed below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "CertificateRevocation" =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

(2). Locate and delete the relevant infected files of this Trojan.

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random ".exe"

Win32.Dofoil Removal Guides

Win32.Dofoil has been known as a highly risky Trojan horse that stealthily installs in your computer. It seriously affects system performance and implements other dangerous malware into the computer. What's worse ,the hacker probably filches the information from your attacked computer through this Trojan. You should be advised to remove it without any delay. You can follow the manual removal guides listed below to get rid of it.

Summary

Win32.Dofoil is a high level computer threat. It appears to be harmless, but it will cause unexpected problems. The result of Trojan infection means you are annoyed by those bad situations such as slow reaction, hard disk are reading and writing constantly, no response from mouse or keyboard and windows are suddenly closed without hints. The disturbed activities will begin the time it has successfully finished its attack. The computer setting will be unnoticeably modified by the Trojan horse and your activities will be unexpectedly interrupted. Since this virus is capable of hiding in the background of system, removing it becomes rather sticky. The best choice to remove impure threat should be in the manual method.


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