How to fast remove Dridex?

Does your antivirus program pop up a notification saying that your computer is infected by a threat named Dridex? You don't take it to heart because you think your antivirus program can deal with it easily, but only to find it fail to remove this threat completely after you try several times? Where does the threat come from and how does it affect the system? Is there any effective method to remove it without further damage to the computer?

More about Dridex:

Dridex is recently created by cyber hackers to get victims’ money in return for certain fake security tool through the way of skillfully tricking system’s authentication guard and slip into your PC absolutely undetected. It can safely avoid virus scanner even if it has been installed on the computer. The antivirus program only can check out its existence when the computer is infected but is unable to block its attack and delete it. Usually, the threat can be distributed when you open spam email attachments, view malicious websites and download and install freeware bundled with the Trojan.

Dridex is a stubborn Trojan and it can perform various harmful tasks in the infected computer according to the hackers’ commands. As soon as it succeeds in taking over the computer, it will stay with the backdoor on the computer, waiting for the user to expose privacy through network. It occupies a large percent of system resource. The computer will run slower and slower gradually. As a result, you have to spend much more time to run a program than you usually do. Users will always get continuous system prompts informing of lacking memory usage. Besides, your computer may shut down or restart without any human actions. Moreover, the backdoor made by the Trojan enables viruses to get into the computer. Then a lot of cyber threats can break into your computer. This Trojan usually attempts to attack you when you are loading video pages, chatting online or launching online account page. For instance, when you are watching videos, chatting with friends or viewing your bank account details, the important and private information may be monitored at every second. If you don’t want to encounter application malfunctions or lose confidential data, you shall have the virus removed immediately. Don’t be disappointed when antivirus programs fail to remove it. And you can also choose to remove it with manual removal solutions. Be cautious when taking the steps of the removal to avoid wrong operations that may damage the computer.

The manual removal requires advanced computer skills. If your feel it uncomfortable deleting the threat manually, use a professional third-party removal tool instead.

Manual Removal Guides :

Dridex is a terrible computer infection. It seriously decreases system performance and input hazardous infections into the system. Once it infects a computer, it interrupts the performance of the computer. It is suggested that you try your best to have it deleted from the machine. Users can follow the removal instruction to eliminate it immediately.

Step one: Boot up your computer in safe mode.
1) Restart your affected computer and hit F8 key multiple times before Windows Advanced Options Menu starts.
2) Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the "Safe Mode with Networking" option when the Windows starts. And then hit Enter key to process.

Step two: Eliminate show hidden files and folders.
Open Control Panel from Start menu and go to Folder Options.

Under View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and non-check Hide protected operation system files (Recommended). Finally, click OK.

Search for and eliminate all the following files created by the Trojan from your PC.

%AllUsersProfile%\[random]
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\[random]
%AppData%\Local\[random].exe

Step three: Kill the process related to the Trojan in Windows Task Manager.
Right-click on the taskbar (or press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys together) to start Windows Task Manager.
Navigate to the Processes tab, search for its running processes of the Trojan and then kill them by clicking on “End Process” button.

Step four: Remove the registry entries of the Trojan.
Press Windows + R keys and input regedit into the box and then click OK to open Registry Editor.

When Registry Editor opens, search for and remove all the registry entries of the Trojan. You’d better make a backup of your registry in case of data loss.

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

Step five: After all the steps are done, please reboot your computer normally to apply all changes.

In conclusion, Dridex is a badware which is created by notorious cyber hackers to intrude on your computer and gather data on your private credential to consequently transfer it to remote hackers. To stay away from the Trojan, you have to be cautious when downloading shareware or clicking on links on the Internet. Once infected, your computer will show some problems such as running very slowly. What’s still, The Trojan has the ability to monitor activities on your computer and steal your confidential information. For the security of your computer and privacy, it’s wise to quickly get rid of this Trojan horse from your computer.