How Do You Remove Trojan-Skelky?

Do you often receive security alerts related to Trojan-Skelky from the antivirus software when using your computer recently? This is a vicious Trojan virus so you need to get rid of it as soon as possible. But the problem is your antivirus program failed to remove it. How can you completely remove Trojan-Skelky? Want to find an effective and quick removal? Read this post and learn how to effectively get rid of the infection.

More Information About Trojan-Skelky

Trojan-Skelky is a new Trojan virus which is detected recently by some well-known antivirus software such as MSN, Norton and Avast. It is designed to mess up users' computer system in the aim of corrupting system files and stealing crucial information. You will meet a series of problems if your system is infected. The Trojan virus is able to disguise itself as a part of Windows files and make it difficult for security tools to remove it. In addition, it will keep serving unwanted pop up ads and notifications to seduce users to click them, which is very annoying. But if you allow the Trojan to stay longer in your computer, the situation will get worse.

Pop-up advertisements in unsafe websites are main source of the Trojan-Skelky. Besides, this Trojan horse can come bundled with lots of free software on the net. To safely prevent the attacks from Trojan-Skelky, you may need to be aware of the drive-by downloads and spam email attachments. Once installed, the Trojan drops several malevolent files on the computer, modifies the registry entries and damages or changes some vital system files. In this way, it can disable some programs (especially the antivirus program) and stick to the system. Being infected, your computer will sometimes encounter serious problems like shutdown, restarting and blue screen of death, which may cause hard disk damage and important data loss. 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. Apart from that, the Trojan enables cyber criminals to access to your PC without permission. Then the data on your computer can be viewed and stolen randomly. Gradually, users will find the infected computer become rather slow and instable. But deleting this infection requires you to have experience on virus removal.

The manual removal needs users to be skilled at computer. If you are not sure about deleting its infected files manually by yourself, please use a powerful malware removal tool instead.

Manual Removal Instructions

Trojan-Skelky is so aggressive that should be removed as soon as possible. It will reduce system performance and obtain access to the malware outside to get into the system. Beyond that, the Trojan is utilized by hackers to break into your computer and do whatever they want. So it is recommended to remove it as quickly as possible. The steps below will show you how to get rid of the infection step by step.

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”

Trojan-Skelky is a highly dangerous Trojan horse that is spread through the Internet. It can cause many problems to the infected computer. Most us's don¡¯t even know where and how it comes, let alone knowing how to kill this infection. In fact, the Trojan can arrive on the computer in different ways. If the computer user accesses to a hacked website and opens the infected links which contain malicious codes, it can stealthily run into your computer. Having this threat on the computer could mean that you allow the remote hackers to control your computer. All the data stored locally may be viewed and stolen by them. Thus, you shall remove it from your computer as quickly as possible.