How to Remove CTB Locker Completely

Posted by Miranda D.
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Computers
Apr 22, 2016
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I notice my PC has become more and more awkward and sluggish recently. Some of the important system files are missing and computer unexpectedly restarts without my prior permission. My AVG keeps showing an alert about CTB Locker infection but fail to remove it successfully, which makes me annoyed. After running a scan for system, my antivirus reports that all of these are due to a Trojan horse called CTB Locker. I want to fix this problem. Can anybody tell me what to do to make computer back to normal?

Information of CTB Locker:

CTB Locker is a recently-created Trojan horse used by the hackers to attack your computer and gather your confidential information. It aims to spread through PC from PC or via downloading freeware and shareware, spam emails or hacked website. To easily get loaded on user’s computer, it is input on hacked web pages by cyber hacker. If you happen to visit such unsafe websites, this Trojan horse can be downloaded into your computer unwittingly. Besides, the threat can also come along with freeware or other malicious programs from the Internet.

On finishing its installation, CTB Locker begins to drop some malicious files into the registry entries of the target computer and self-replicates rapidly. This Trojan horse can cause your computer to restart or shut down all of a sudden, which may bring damage to the hard drives. It may have conflicts with other system applications or disable the normal utility of process. CTB Locker can hide deeply in your computer and start a background download without your consent. Once the system has been controlled by CTB Locker, the computer performance may not decrease unexpectedly so that you won’t be wary of the malware. Gradually, the entire computer performance will degrade and the reaction of application becomes more and more slow. Most of them can easily result in further severe system corruption. You may find that some personal files disappear and some unknown files appear. Other cyber infections will be able to attack your compromised computer more easily after the infection. Not before too long they will regret for what they had done. The private information on the computer is not safe because those evil guys can easily steal it. So you should pay attention to CTB Locker for it is dangerous. Therefore, it is necessary to remove it as early as possible. Frankly, a majority of antivirus programs cannot clear this Trojan horse even if they detect it. Getting rid of if from system is very essential. In this case, manual removal can be an effective way to deal with this problem.

The manual removal requires advanced computer skills. If you are a computer illiterate and cannot accomplish the manual removal task on your own, please download and use an automatic removal tool to perform the removal.

Why Need to Remove the Trojan Horse Immediately?

1. The Trojan enables the creator of the Trojan to open a backdoor for hackers to gain unauthorized access to your computer.

2. It randomly deletes system files and disables important programs.
3. It drops some other threats such as adware parasites and spyware into your computer, which can mess up your computer.
4. Unnoticeably record your browsing data and internet search habits.

Guide to Manual Remove the Trojan Horse

CTB Locker is so invasive that it can cause undesired financial and information loss. It has the ability to decrease system performance seriously and result in a computer infection flood on the computer. Moreover, this Trojan horse could open a backdoor through which the remote hackers can visit your computer with ease and steal your personal information. Hence, we highly recommend that you remove this nasty Trojan horse from your computer as soon as possible. That will be an impossible hope and it’s more realistic to eliminate it manually or with a helpful tool.
 

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”

 
CTB Locker is a Trojan horse which does harm to the target computer severely. It connects your computer to some remote servers in order to download arbitrary files, some of which are malicious. It is often bundled with some unknown free programs, which helps the Trojan horse to enter a computer when you are downloading or installing these unknown programs from the Internet. Besides, it can enter your computer by exploiting spam emails, suspicious links, malicious websites and social networks. Antivirus software won't be able to remove it since it can deeply hide in the computer system. Otherwise, the infected computer will have to suffer great loss and serious damage.  
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