My XP laptop has been attacked by a virus called Trojan.Broluxa. I tried several ways to get rid of it but none of them can help me out of this. I can always get the virus alert from my security tool. I don’t know why my tool can only quarantine it rather than remove it for me. I’m afraid to use my machine as I think it can steal my privacy if I turn the machine on. Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.Broluxa is a dangerous computer threat that belongs to Trojan horse infection. It can attack innocent computers from the backdoors without being known by PC users. Its main targets can be the machines that run Windows operating systems including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 8. It can be really bad to have this infection on your computer as it can break down the whole systems from many aspects. Even if there is an anti-virus program installed on your machine, you can still be attacked by this virus as it can be able to bypass the security tool. In addition, cyber hackers have many ways to spread this infection to target machines without being detected by security tools.

The Internet can be the biggest source for hackers to distribute this Trojan.Broluxa infection. Many websites can be attacked and hacked by cyber criminals so that those bad guys can put this infection to the servers. That means when users go to the corrupted pages, their computers can be aimed by this virus immediately. It can pretend to be a cache file for the visiting computers to save. What’s more, cyber hackers can implant this Trojan into other commonly used programs, so that after people download and install the infected programs to their machines, this Trojan can be activated at the same time.

As a newly released Trojan virus, this Trojan.Broluxa can be capable to escape from being removed by the anti-virus programs, also, it can damage the security programs from the startup. The system firewall can also be shut down by this virus. In this bad situation, the corrupted machines can be totally compromised which mean that there will be a lot of another kinds of computer infection come to attack from the web. The performance of the infected computers can be worse and worse. Users will notice that their computers can be slower and slower and it will take a long time to boot up the machines and launch programs.

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.Broluxa 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

It is necessary for users to remove this Trojan.Broluxa infection from the infected computers as soon as possible. With the help of this Trojan, cyber hackers can achieve many illegal purposes from the infected machines. What’s worse, those bad crooks can even connect to the target machines without users’ notice. They can do everything they want once they sneak into the infected machines. They can even turn on the cameras on the infected machines to monitor users. The consequence can be a really disaster as cyber hackers can steal financial information saved on the infected computers so that they can steal money from users. In a word, if you are warned by your security tool that you have this infection on your machine, you need to get rid of it in time.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on October 19, 2015 1:36 pm

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