I’m having difficulty on removing a virus called Trojan horse Agent5.AETS on my Windows XP computer. I have used my anti-virus program to get rid of it for thousands times, but all my work are in vain as this Trojan can always come back after I restart my machine. That’s really disappointed. Can’t this Trojan virus be removed? What should I do? I need urgent help to fix this problem!

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan horse Agent5.AETS is newly released by cyber hackers on the Internet. It is an extremely dangerous Trojan horse infection that can make great damages to the entire system as soon as it sneaks into the target computer. It is a kind of computer infection that can be able to damage the security system including the anti-virus program installed on the infected computer. However, even if people install anti-virus programs on their machines, they cannot escape from the corruption of this virus as it can escape from being removed by the security tools. When this infection comes to the target computers, it would make completely chaos to the whole system. In addition, the specific targets of this infection to attack are the computers that run Windows operating systems.

There can be plenty of ways for cyber criminals to spread this Trojan horse Agent5.AETS infection from the web. The most common way is that hackers put this infection into pages which have already been modified by them and wait for people to come. It is not easy for PC users to notice which page is infected or not as the Trojan can be implanted as page code which can be hard for users to understand. So as soon as people use their machines to visit the corrupted websites, their computers can be attacked by it immediately. What’s more, people can also be targeted by this infection if they download programs on the Internet carelessly.

When this Trojan horse Agent5.AETS infiltrates target machines, it can escape from the detection of security tools. Also, this Trojan virus can infect system-related files to avoid being found by the anti-virus software. System registry can be damaged with vicious data and changed arbitrarily. Under this situation, after people get the system loaded, they would get a lot of problems and errors. Also, this Trojan can generate many irrelevant pop-ups when people go online. That is the way for this Trojan to use to help more computer malware to come and make more damages. If this Trojan cannot be removed in time, it will help cyber hackers to establish illegal connection to the target computers, so that hackers can do more bad things.

Some Traits about This Trojan

-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can create many junk files which occupy a lot of space in hard drive
-Can download other malicious programs into computer, which make further damage.
-Your sensitive information can be stolen by hacker who can access to your computer with the help of this Trojan.
-Cay give you many redirects all the time no matter what you are doing.
-May pretend as an anti-virus program and cheat you that computer is in dangerous, and ask you to pay to remove the threats.

NOTE: If you find any of these symptoms on your computer, that proves your PC is under attack and seriously infected. If you are not a computer savvy, Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts to remove this Trojan horse Agent5.AETS for you.

Manual Removal Guide of Trojan (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide of Trojan provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

XP task manager

Step 2: Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

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Step 3: Try to find the files which relate to this Trojan, and delete them all.

Step 4: Click on Start button at the right lower corner, then click on Control Panel

XP-start-control-panel

Then you will come to the Control Panel windows, click on Add and Remove Programs

xp-add-remove-icon

Then try to find the program which relates to this Trojan, highlight it and choose Remove, the program’s name is random.

4789794954_df8cfb11b2

Step 5: Click on Start button or press Win+R, then type regedit in the box to open Registry Editor, after that, try to find
C:\Users\profile name here\AppData\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Similar video guide to modify Windows registry:

Conclusion

Trojan horse Agent5.AETS is a notorious virus that can attack Windows computers all over the world. It can be widely spread on the Internet by cyber criminals. It can be capable to damage the security system on the infected computers so that anti-virus programs will not be able to remove it for computer users. To make the situation even worse, this virus can help other kinds of computer infection to come and mess up the whole system. So, people must get rid of this infection as soon as possible.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Trojan horse Agent5.AETS? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on August 25, 2015 6:06 am

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