I think my computer has been targeted by a virus named Trojan.Zekapab. I keep getting the virus warning from my anti-virus program. I tried to use the tool to get rid of this virus but I can’t. The tool can only quarantine it for me. I have no clue on what to do now. I want my computer clean from this virus. What should I do now? Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.Zekapab is an extremely dangerous Trojan horse infection. It is created by cyber criminals who want to gain illegal benefits from innocent computer users. It is hard for PC users to prevent it from invasion as the ways for cyber hackers to spread it can be various. Also, as a newly released Trojan virus, most of anti-virus program can find no way to get rid of this infection completely and permanently. If you can be able to locate the virus on your system, if doesn’t mean that your computer is safe from it after you delete the virus. Once this infection sneak into the target computers, it will not only hide in one place, it can divide itself to many branches and hide in different locations. In this case, in order to remove this virus completely, you need to locate every place of this virus hides and remove them all, which is really hard for inexperienced users.

Cyber hackers who make this Trojan.Zekapab infection can use the Internet as the large place to store this virus. They can hack into some websites and make them become their proxy servers to hide this infection. Usually, those bad crooks can corrupt the pages and insert the vicious scripts of this virus to them. Once people go to the corrupted domains, their computers can be infected with this infection right away. In addition, people who download programs carelessly on the web can be easily targeted by this virus as hackers can implant this infection to those commonly downloaded programs.

As soon as this Trojan.Zekapab virus infiltrates target machines, it will begin to harm the entire systems instantly. System registry will be corrupted by its vicious data and the system settings will be messed up as well. In this case, the performance of the infected computers can be worse and worse. PC users will face many system errors during the use and some basic functions of the systems cannot be achieved. What’s worse, the system firewall and anti-virus programs installed can be disabled by this virus which can make the entire systems out of any protection. More and more computer viruses can be downloaded by this virus and make more damages to the compromised computers.

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.Zekapab 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.

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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

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

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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

If you encounter this Trojan.Zekapab virus on your computer unfortunately, what you need to do is to get rid of it as quickly as possible. This virus can make great damages to the infected computers if it can stay for a long time. The infected computers can suffer from a lot of problems and troubles. What’s more, cyber hackers can be able to collect information saved on the infected computers so that they can gain more illegal benefits. Do not hesitate to remove this virus once you realize that your computer is infected with it.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Trojan.Zekapab? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on May 27, 2016 5:24 am

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