I can’t get rid of this Backdoor.Voldat virus from my XP desktop. I have it for almost a week. During this week, I have tried to use several different ways posted on the Internet, but none of them can help me sort it out. I’m worried now as my computer performs in a strange way that I don’t how to describe. How do I solve this issue? I don’t want to mess up my computer. Thanks in advanced.

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Backdoor.Voldat is a vicious computer infection which belongs to a kind of Trojan horse. What it can do to the infected computers is to damage the whole systems from many aspects. It is hard for computer users to notice this infection’s infiltration as all of its activities can be performed on the background. Except damaging the corrupted computers by its own, it can also help many other kinds of computer viruses to come and make the situation even worse. What’s more, this infection is a newly-distributed virus that can escape from the detection of plenty of anti-virus programs, in another word, people can hardly get informed by their security tools installed when this infection tries to sneak into their computers.

Without being caught by security tools, this Backdoor.Voldat can be spread with various ways by cyber hackers. Those bad crooks can take the Internet to be their biggest place to hide this infection. Under this case, this malicious virus can comes to target computers all over the world. Usually, cyber hackers can put this infection on the websites like porn pages and unsafe websites which contain programs-downloading. Once people go to the compromised pages or downloading the corrupted software, their machines can be targeted by this virus instantly.

As soon as this Backdoor.Voldat infection goes to the target computers, it would start to harm the system right away. To make it be activated once the infected is on, the system registry can be added with its vicious data. Also, system settings can be changed by this infection arbitrarily. PC users will face a lot of unwanted problems during the use as the systems are completely messed up. What’s worse, this infection can be able to shut down the system firewall to weaken the security level on the target computers, without any protection, the infected computers can take the great risks to be attacked by all kinds of malware coming from the web which can be a fatal disaster.

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 Backdoor.Voldat 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.

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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

Backdoor.Voldat is baleful Trojan infection that aims on computers with Windows operating systems. It can sneak into target machines without users’ notice. It is a very dangerous virus infection that can assist cyber criminals to connect to the infected computers without users’ approval. The confidential information like bank accounts and credit card details can be leak out and grasped by those criminals. In this case, computer users will suffer from money losses. Also, the infected computers can perform in abnormal ways with black screen and blue screen of death happen often. In order to avoid more and more problems occur on the infected computers, users must try every method to eradicate this infection as quickly as they can.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on November 23, 2015 1:19 pm

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