“Earlier this evening AVG 2012 kept popping up with a message saying that a threat was detected upon opening and listed it as Luhe.Sirefef.A Every time I would click on anything it would re-direct me to somewhere else. I have tried many solutions to deal with it but no luck.”In this situation, what will you do?
What is Luhe.Sirefef.A exactly?
Like what the name reveals, Luhe.Sirefef.A is a pernicious root-kit leading your computer to a chaotic condition. It is one member of the big Sirefef Trojan family. This family has many other members such as Sirefef.Y. When PC users get such Trojan virus infection, their antivirus scan continually find Luhe.Sirefef.A on their system. Even they have tried Norton Recovery, and Power Eraser, or more other program but neither worked. Apparently from the other threats, it requires much more than users can do on their own. In usual there are tree ways for Trojan virus infecting your computer. Trojan virus may be along with some other legit normal software. When you download the legit program, you may also download the virus. Or Luhe.Sirefef.A may lurk in some links or websites, when you click or visit them, you can get a chance to be infected by Luhe.Sirefef.A incautiously. There is one direct route for virus infection. That is when users use there external device to transfer something. They may get that virus from other machines. But no matter in what way you get infected, the virus will finally damage your computer system until you can’t use it any more. As for this Trojan virus, it will redirect you to some pages you don’t want to. The infection process can be progressive. From one file to more and from one disk to another. The key point is that your antivirus is useless for this Luhe.Sirefef.A. It can block the functions of the antivirus removing it. So manual way becomes necessary. Before your computer system is destroyed, you’d better get it our from your computer as soon as possible.
To make your computer healthy, Live Chat with YooSecurity Expert Now, or you can follow the manual removal guide below to get your problem fixed. (For advanced computer users)
Key sentences to judge if your computer has been infected Luhe Trojan virus.
A. Your computer is something not normal as usual such as running very slowly.
B. When you open the Task Manager, you can find some strange progress which you never found before.
C. Some of your computer functions are unavailable or some normal legal program can’t run or there are unusual conditions of them.
D. It always constantly happens that your system has errors somewhere.
E. Lately, your computer system will be totally destroyed.
Best Way to Remove Luhe.Sirefef.A & Manual Removal Step by Step?
Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Open the Windows Task Manager.
If that didn’t work, try another way. Press the Start button and click on the Run option. This will start the Run tool. Type in taskmgr and press OK. This should start the Windows Task Manager
Step 2: Within the Windows Task Manager click on the Processes tab. Find the process by name. random.exe. Then scroll the list to find required process. Select it with your mouse or keyboard and click on the End Process button. This will kill the process.
Step 3: Delete malicious registry entries.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\ random
Step 4?Remove malicious files of Luhe.Sirefef.A
C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC\Desktop.ini
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ping.exe
Attention: Those instructions are commonly useful for some victims if the virus acts only in its first stage and the victims have much knowledge of computer. But this virus may have some different performance in different PCs. So the solutions may be something different from each other for different computers especially when the virus and its related files are changed.
So in this situation, please contact YooCare online PC service for help. Beforehand, please prepare for help as follows:
1. Restart your computer in safe mode with networking.
2. If can’t start in safe mode with networking or normal mode, please prepare a USB stick or blank DVD-R.
3. If can’t start in safe mode with networking or normal mode, and you have another good computer, please contact YooCare via your good computer.
3. Make sure there is cable connection or WIFI wireless connection with your infected computer.
4. Contact YooCare PC online service for help.
Video of Key Steps on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:
Based on various situations and computer skills, you can choose the following solutions fit for you.
1. Follow the steps we provide to manually remove the virus.
2. If you failed to remove Luhe.Sirefef.A Infection with the method above, please consult YooSecurity certified professionals to remove it completely. Live chat with professionals now
Published by Leo R. Oscar on July 24, 2012
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