Well, I got a Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus on my gaming laptop. this morning, while I was watching some video from Youtube, I found something flashing and then disappearing soon. I though there is something installed into my computer already, but I don’t think it should be a Trojan virus. Since this Trojan horse gets on my machine, many things are messed up a lot! I usually use Malwarebyte and malwarebytes allmost got done with its scan and let me know what files are infected with this vicious virus, but it stopped responding 🙁 I need help!!

Brief Introduction of Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus

Trojan.SlayerRAT virus is a dangerous and hazardous Trojan virus. This Trojan horse has a strong ability to monitor your online activities, help remove hackers control victims’ computer and access victims’ personal information. Cyber criminals design this virus and use it to steal people’s personal data for illegal benefits. To attack more targeted computers, cyber criminals spread it through many ways that you can’t imagine. They will embed Trojan.SlayerRAT virus’ executable file as pop-up ads, deals, discounts, coupons, fake security banner message or bogus updates into malicious websites, but in fact, the websites are also created by cyber criminal in order to control visitor easily. When visitor opens these websites, different popup ads will keep showing up to attract visitor to click on them. One click will activate and install this virus into system soon without your permission. Besides, spam email, free charging software, strange links, shareware or peer-to-peer file also can be added into this Trojan.SlayerRAT virus. If you accidentally download or click something unsafe, Trojan virus will go into system within few seconds. Therefore, to avoid virus and malware, you should be cautious to unsafe things from the Internet.

Trojan.SlayerRAT virus will create bad actions to system soon once it access computer. it changes the homepage and search provider of web browser to completely control the browser, redirect you to malicious commercial sites and monitor what you operate online. That’s why Trojan virus can trace your online track and steal online important data like password, banking account info, credit card and paypal account details. Anyway, this virus is a big threat to your personal data safety. The virus changes system settings in startup item, registry editor, task manager, which will severely trigger error code. And some system files and programs may be disabled by this virus to make computer work improperly. Some EXE files will display on your desktop, or desktop wallpaper is changed, or you can open some applications as some error message saying program can’t be found. Trojan.SlayerRAT virus also badly affects security tool. It aggressively attacks and destroys firewall of security tool, and then security tool will lose capability to protect computer. Computer security will become more vulnerable, system errors will often happen. And there is no doubt that computer performance will slow down. You’re strongly advised to clean out this Trojan virus timely.

Some Traits about Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus

-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.

-Can redirect you to pages you don’t want all the time no matter what you are doing.

-Take a long time to turn on or shut down your computer

-Your sensitive information can be stolen by hacker who can access to your computer with the help of this Trojan.

-May pretend as an anti-virus program and cheat you that computer is in dangerous, and ask you to pay to remove the threats.

Warm prompt: It’s complicated for people who are not computer savvy or not familiar with the virus to remove the Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus. You can contact YooCare/YooSecurity PC professional online service for help:

Removal Guide for PCs with Windows OS

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.

>>>>>> Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc keys simultaneously to get the Task Manager to stop the active processes of  Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus. To do this, you will need to click the “Processes” tag at the top then find out suspicious processes and right click on them and select “End Process”.

Task manager

 

>>>>>> Click “Start” menu at the lower left corner and type “regedit” in the search programs and files box and press Enter key. Then you will open the “Registry Editor”.

start menu

 

>>>>>> You will need to find out the suspicious registry files related to this Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus in the Registry Editor, They are usually located in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE. You need to distinguish them from their “Name” and “Data” at the right column. All of them will be randomly distributed. If you are not good at this, ask for an expert for help.

registry editor

>>>>>> After you find out the suspicious registry files, you need to find out where the .exe files of the Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus locates. Usually, they will be in the operating system drive. To open it, you will need to click Start menu > Computer & My computer. Generally speaking, the Operating System drive is Local Disk (C:).

Hard diskdrives

>>>>>> Basically speaking, all the related files of Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus will be located in Windows > System32. Find out all the files of the Trojan virus and delete them. Make sure that all the files you deleted are viruses, but not the files of the operating system. Any mistakes will cause data loss even system crash.

System 32

Video of Key Steps on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:


Summary:

Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus can severely attack your computer once it gets on your PC. It corrupts your system files, weakens the security level of the infected computer and modifies all your key registry settings as well as disables your firewall because of its root-kit. The CPU usage percentage will become higher than before, which will cause constant blue or black screen death and system freeze. This Trojan virus helps cyber criminals remotely control the infected PC. So hackers can do anything on your PC and get any information from your computer or by tracking your online history. And users’ personal information like credit card, bank account details, log-in passwords or other financial information could be leaked out. Victims of this Trojan.SlayerRAT Virus will suffer from financial loss. This Trojan must be removed as fast as possible to avoid further damages if you detect this nasty thing on your computer.

Warm prompt: If you are not computer savvy or not familiar with the virus to remove this Trojan Virus. You can contact YooCare/YooSecurity PC professional online service for help:

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on October 28, 2016 12:06 pm

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