Guide to Remove Crypt0L0cker Completely
Do you receive an alert about Crypt0L0cker infection from your antivirus program? The infection is dangerous and should be deleted without hesitation. But the problem is your antivirus program failed to remove it. Therefore, how to handle with it? Drag your computer to a local repair store and spend some money to have this Trojan horse removed? Read this post and learn how to effectively get rid of the infection.
Description of Crypt0L0cker
Crypt0L0cker is a new Trojan virus which is detected recently by some well-known antivirus software such as MSN, Norton and Avast. It will mess up your computer system you let the Trojan stay on your computer. It poses various computer threats. Once installed on your computer, it soon attaches itself to some vital system files, so that your antivirus program will have difficulty in removing it. If your antivirus program deletes those infected files forcibly, it will probably cause severe system damage. Anyway, the longer this Trojan virus stays on the computer, the more damage the infected machine will suffer.
Generally, Crypt0L0cker can make use of the vulnerabilities of your system to break into the PC when you visit some websites, such as porn sites and gambling sites, which contains a pile of malicious advertisements. It is also bundled with other programs and comes along with them when you download and install such programs. If you want to keep your computer away from these problems, pay attention to what you download. The Trojan will start to add malicious codes onto the system to modify the function of the crucial system files. By doing these, it can eat up the resources your frequently used programs require and mess up the normal running of system applications. You may also encounter blue screen of death once it¡¯s installed and sudden shutdown or restart problems may frequently occur, which causes the data loss or even undesired hardware issues. If you leave this Trojan horse alone, it will try to connect to a certain website and download more threats to further compromise your computer system. Moreover, it can allow the hackers who create it to visit your computer with ease. Then the data on your computer can be viewed and stolen randomly. To remove this virus, delete all virus related files. Please remember that the manual removal requires you to have been properly practiced with computer expertise.
Those computer users who are confident about the Trojan manual removal can follow the instructions in this post to fix the problem step by step. If you are not familiar with computer, we suggest you use a professional anti-malware tool to assist the removal.
Tutorial to Manually Remove Crypt0L0cker Completely
Crypt0L0cker is a dangerous Trojan horse that installs itself on your computer in a secret and aggressive way. It is able to destroy your computer by doing various harmful things inside. Beyond that, the Trojan is utilized by hackers to break into your computer and do whatever they want. The earlier you remove it, the less damage the computer will suffer. Follow the steps below and you can clear the infection from PC completely.
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¡±
Crypt0L0cker is a highly dangerous Trojan horse that is spread through the Internet. It can bring about many troublesome computer issues. Most users have no ideas about the ways this Trojan attacks a computer. Here are the most common ones. It can be distributed via malicious websites, strange email attachments and dubious pop-ups or freeware/files. What is worse, the cyber criminals are able to remotely monitor your computer. Your personal data in your computer will be at high risk. So, you¡¯d better get rid of the malicious Trojan virus promptly.
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