Last night, my anti-virus program picked up a virus called W32.Cridex!gen5. I though it is already removed by my anti-virus, but today after I booted up my computer, I can still get the virus warning about it from the tool. It says that it can only quarantine it but can’t remove it. That makes me feel really nervous. Can it damage my computer somehow? How about my information saved on the system? Can they be stolen? What should I do?

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

When you get this W32.Cridex!gen5 infection on your computer, you must be cautious as it is a malicious Trojan horse infection that helps cyber hackers to steal privacy information on the infected computers. Also, this Trojan virus can damage the entire system from many aspects once it sneaks into the machine. As a newly released computer virus, most of anti-virus programs cannot be able to remove it completely and permanently from the infected computers. That reason why they can’t get rid of it is because that they need time to update their virus library to get the solution for this infection, but before they can get updated, this infection can already damage the anti-virus programs installed on the target computers in the registry.

As soon as this W32.Cridex!gen5 infection comes to target computers, system registry can be modified arbitrarily by it. It can disable the security tools from running from the startup, also, it can shut down the system firewall. Under this case, the infected computers can be totally compromised, which mean that more and more viruses can infiltrate target computers if people go online carelessly. It is not easy for PC users to prevent its invasion as cyber criminals have a lot of ways to spread it to innocent computers. Also, it is really hard for most of users to get rid of it by their own as this infection can damage system related files to avoid being removed.

What’s worse, this W32.Cridex!gen5 virus can contain another kind of malware which called keylogger. It is a small program that can collect all data that users input to the infected computers and save the information on a specific and secret place, or it can even send the details to cyber hackers once the infected computer has Internet connection. This Trojan can help cyber hackers to connect to the corrupted machines remotely without being known by computer users. That can be an awful thing as we don’t know what they will do to the infected computers. Usually, what they want is money, so they can encrypt the files saved on the machines and ask people to pay for the decryption.

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 W32.Cridex!gen5 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.

4789794954_df8cfb11b2

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

This W32.Cridex!gen5 is a nasty infection that can target Windows computers and it can be spread all over the world from the Internet. When it infiltrates target computers, it will perform a lot of bad activities to the whole system. It can not only damage the system to make it work abnormally, but can also help cyber hackers to collect financial information like band password and credit card for illegal benefits. People who get this Trojan on their machines must try to remove it in time.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of W32.Cridex!gen5? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on August 31, 2015 1:21 pm

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