HackTool:Win32/Keygen Removal Guide - Trojan Removal

I found an infection called HackTool:Win32/Keygen in my computer yesterday. MSE detected it; however, it had no ability to remove it completely. I feel tired as it can come back again and again on my PC after deletion. Then I tried to use other anti-virus program to eliminate it but it remains there. The infection still existed there. There were not other ways I can find to get rid of this Trojan virus. How to completely get rid of it?

HackTool:Win32/Keygen Description:

HackTool:Win32/Keygen is deemed as nasty Trojan horse. This tricky Trojan horse often gets installed on the targeted computers by bundled with some freeware. It should be noted that many Trojan horses are imbedded into the installation folders of free software, and usually they have a file name which looks legitimate, such as JPG.EXE and TXT.EXE, so that they can mislead users into running the malicious files. In most cases, the Trojan horse will name its files similar to the system file names. It will secretly change your desktop image and add strange icons and shortcuts on your screen. People have difficult in detect the Trojan with their eyes. This is the best way for a hacker to intrude computer and seduce users to run the Trojan program without people’s attention. Apart from this way, the Trojan tries every possible way whether nasty or proper to camouflage itself and accomplish implanting into target computer. In most cases, users will use their antivirus programs to scan the computers. So don’t fall for its trap.

Hackers often embed legal code into the Trojan program to avoid being removed by an antivirus program and that is the reason why your antivirus software detects it but fails to remove it from your system. In the old days, Trojan horses are mainly written to play trick on users. However, today Trojan horses is evolved to gain actual benefit from victim users by aiming at important data in the target machine. To steal the information, the working mechanism of the Trojan is to pass through physical barrier between internal and external network. It is not a good idea to leave such a threat on your machine, so you need to remove it as soon as possible to prevent financial loss once you find it.

However, the following instructions require sufficient computer knowledge. To avoid making any critical mistakes during the process, please use a malware removal tool.

How dangerous is the Trojan horse?

1. It enables the hackers to access your computer secretly. 2. Severely decrease system performance and stop running processes. 3.It disables your executable programs and blocks you to access the Internet. 4. It can record your browsing histories and collect the confidential information.

Manual Removal Guides:

HackTool:Win32/Keygen is one of the latest discovered Trojan virus which can get loaded on the computer automatically. It degrades your computer running speed and brings many other nasty infections into the computer. This Trojan horse will let cyber criminals invade the infected computer to make things worse. Please carefully treat each step during the process. Users can try the manual removal solution to remove it.

 

Step One: show its related files:

1.Start button>Control Panel>Appearance>Personalization link>Folder Options.

2. Click on “View tab” in the folder options window, here, you can show all the malicious files by clicking on “Show hidden files/ folders”, and then drives under the Hidden files and folders category.

3.Finally, click “OK” at the bottom of the Folder Options window.

Step Two: Remove its associated registry

1. Open Registry Editor.

Start>Run>type “regedit”>OK.

Then remove the following registry entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Random’
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

2.Locate and Clear the malicious files:

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

Important Note:

HackTool:Win32/Keygen is potentially harmful to computer users. As described above, Trojans are often pretends to be harmless, but will make a lot of malicious actions. Slow performance, unexpected system crash and program corrupted can be the symptoms of this Trojan horse. Once computer is infected by this virus, the related damage will follow. You not only are unable to remove all traces and leftover of the Trojan, but also?might?end?up deleting an essential system file and crashing your computer. Hiding behind system rootkit makes this virus more difficult to be removed. It is recommended to use a powerful automatic virus removal tool to save your time and trouble.