How to Remove RDN/Trojan.worm Completely?

Posted by Emily B.
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Jun 13, 2017
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I notice an obvious slowdown in performance of my computer recently. The system often crashes or shuts down without rhyme or reason. Meanwhile, my antivirus program informs me again and again that my computer has been compromised by RDN/Trojan.worm but it cannot completely remove the Trojan, which almost drives me nut. Where did this Trojan come from? I don't want to rebuild my computer because there are a lot of important data stored there. Can anybody tell me what to do to make computer back to normal?

What Is RDN/Trojan.worm?

RDN/Trojan.worm is a recently-created Trojan horse used by the hackers to attack your computer and gather your confidential information. It spreads around the world via the Internet. In some cases, this Trojan is implanted into certain website. If you unintentionally visit these websites, the Trojan can be downloaded automatically on your PC without any notification. Apart from that, it may also access your computer through malicious programs or adware.

Once installed, RDN/Trojan.worm will modify some system settings and enable its malicious process to run automatically every time you start up computer. After that, it will make your computer shut down or restart, which causes damages to the hard drive. Besides, this infection may lead to blue screen of death and system data loss. This Trojan horse can root deeply into your system and perform destructive tasks in the background without your knowledge. It is difficult for users to realize the existence of the Trojan horse because at the very beginning the infected computer's performance won't change much. However, gradually, you will find that the computer running speed is slower and slower because more unfamiliar and unnecessary programs have been poured into the infected computer. Most of those programs are potential threats. You may find that some personal files are missing, and some new files with weird names appear. Other cyber infections will be able to attack your compromised computer more easily after the infection. By adding spyware on your computer, the inventor of the Trojan can monitor your online activities and collect your information for illegal use. So, you can see that the information stored on your computer can be captured easily by the unknown people. The Trojan is a high risky threat. Therefore, it is necessary to remove it as early as possible. The antivirus program can detect its existence, but cannot fully kick it out of your computer. Getting rid of if from system is very essential. Thus, it is suggested that you remove the threat manually if you are a computer expert.

The manual removal guide provided below requires users to be proficient in computer. If you want to avoid making any critical mistakes during the process, please try the automatic removal tool.

Why Need to Remove the Trojan Horse Immediately?

1. The makers of the Trojan horse will be able to access your computer remotely without your grant. 2. Reduce system performance and shut down the onging programs without notifying you firstly. 3. It downloads other malware like spyware, adware, and worm to your computer. 4. It collects your personal information and valuable data for the hackers.

RDN/Trojan.worm Manual Removal Instructions:

RDN/Trojan.worm is a vicious Trojan horse that gets installed on your computer stealthily. This Trojan horse can greatly drag down your computer running speed and even bring other types of malware to your infected system. Moreover, it enables hackers to break into the computer and steal your personal information. It is so dangerous and should be erased at once. That will be an impossible hope and it's more realistic to eliminate it manually or with a helpful tool.

Step 1: Stop the processes of the Trojan in Task Manager.

1)Open Windows Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Shift+ESC or Ctrl+Alt+Del. together.

2)Search for its running malicious processes of the Trojan, and then stop them all by clicking on “End Process” button. (The virus process can be random)

Step 2: Delete all the files associated with the Trojan.

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

Step 3: Get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan.

1)Press Window + R keys together. When Run pops up, type regedit into the box and click OK to launch Registry Editor.

Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER directories, find out and get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan immediately.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunRegedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
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

Note: Please back up your computer before any file changes in case that you can restore your information and data if you make any mistake during the process.

Step 4: Restart the computer to normal mode after these steps are done.

RDN/Trojan.worm is potentially a big risk of identity theft which has the ability to create a backdoor at the wall of system security guard with the purpose of gathering your private information. It changes the default settings of homepage or favorite bookmarks to its commercial web page. This Trojan horse usually comes bundled with freeware or shareware, that is to say, it is likely to get into your computer when you download free software from unsafe sources. 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. In this case, manual removal is worth trying.

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