Cerber Removal Guide

by Miranda D. Web Owner

Cerber is a dangerous virus, like other Trojan virus, it consists of a set of devious codes and can write malicious entries into registry. Many antivirus programs can detect this threat but cannot delete it. You have tried the entire of legal antivirus program on the computer to fix it but your system performance still needs to tune up immediately? So do you really know the property of this virus? If you want to remove it successfully, you should have a general information about it.

Cerber is categorized as a hazardous malware for it is designed to utilized system vulnerabilities to achieve its aims on the computer. Most of the time when users browse insecure webpage, download suspicious programs or opening uncertain emails, this Trojan will take the chance to intrude system. It can silently sneak into the system without user’s prior permission. To keep away from this Trojan virus, you should keep cautious when surfing the net.

After dropping its malicious components into the computer system, the Trojan will make your computer behave strange. This Trojan virus takes up many system resources while running in the background of the system, so you will feel a drastic slowdown in computer performance and network speed. When you are utilizing the computer to play games, load multimedia files, you may experience unexpected Blue Screen of Death error messages or undesirable increase of system shutdown problems. It will makes a backdoor to allow more viruses get into your system without your consent. Besides, this Trojan virus enables the hackers to access the data and information (such as banking account details) stored on your computer without your knowledge. That is to say,the cyber criminals can steal your individual privacy furtively and make illeagal profits by using this imformation. So users should make the backup and scrutinize system regularly to make sure the safety of your PC. However, few antivirus programs can help them fix the problem. You can see what are the specific viruses on the computer, especially Cerber. But after you click on the Remove button to remove them, you will be sadly to find that all threats are removed except this Trojan virus. In this case manual removal can help but it is recommended for advanced users only.

How does Cerber infect your PC?

1.Allow remote intruder to get inside the computer and control it remotely without obtaining your consent firstly. 2. It blocks accesses to certain webpage and redirects you to dangerous commercial websites. 3.It contributes to the infection of other threats including malware, adware parasites and spyware into your computer. It helps gather the valuable data and confidential information for the hackers.

Manual Removal Instruction of Cerber:

By making use of the internet, Cerber is able to get into the target computer secretly. It seriously reduces the system performance and allow other malware and cyber criminals to get into the computer as well as monitoring what tasks computer user may perform. Even worse, it is utilized as a tool of the cyber hacker to intrude on the computer for gathering your private information. Furthermore, this Trojan is a media for remote hacker to access users’ privacy. The following steps guide you how to handle the troublesome.

Step 1: Stop the processes of the Trojan in Task Manager.

1)Open Windows Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Shift+ESC or Ctrl+Alt+Del. together.

2)Search for its running malicious processes of the Trojan, and then stop them all by clicking on “End Process” button. (The virus process can be random)

Step 2: Delete all the files associated with the Trojan.

%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random “.exe”

Step 3: Get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan.

1)Press Window + R keys together. When Run pops up, type regedit into the box and click OK to launch Registry Editor.

Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER directories, find out and get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan immediately.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunRegedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Note: Please back up your computer before any file changes in case that you can restore your information and data if you make any mistake during the process.

Step 4: Restart the computer to normal mode after these steps are done.

Conclusion

Cerber can spread throughout the world. You may unconsciously allow malware to get into the computer when installing some free programs or opening spam email attachments. It may disguise itself as a plug-in in some phishing websites and trick you into installing it on the machine. If you leave it stay on the computer, it will lead to multiple severe system problems which usually force you to re- install the system. You will never know when it landed on your PC in day light, so be careful when surfing online. Though antivirus software may frequently pop up the security alerts about this infection, it cannot fix the problem. Therefore, you should resort to a safe and effective automatic tool for help.