I need help on removing this Adware.OpenCandy.51 from my computer. It has stayed on my computer for a long time. I don’t want to make the situation worse, and that is why I want to get rid of it so urgently. I’m not a computer savvy and it is tough for me to do so. Please give me some advice on how to deal with it. Thank you in advance.

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Adware.OpenCandy.51 is categorized as an adware program. Technically speaking, it is also a kind of Trojan infection with strong destructivity. Mostly, the targets of this infection can be the computers that run Windows operating systems. The ways of this infection to sneak into Windows computers can be various. Cyber hackers can distribute this Trojan infection on the Internet to attack innocent computer users so that they can get their illegal purposes fulfilled without being charged. The crimes can be committed on the web which are hard for police to chase the hackers even the victims report the cases to them. With this Trojan hiding in the computers, the corrupted systems can be troubled by all kind of problems during the use.

Usually, cyber hackers can upload this Adware.OpenCandy.51 infection to those websites which have been controlled by them. Web pages like porn domains and those pages that provide free programs downloading can be the worse-hit websites, even some famous websites can be attacked by hackers. So in this circumstance, when unsuspecting computer users come to the infected pages, their computers can be aimed by this Trojan immediately. It can infiltrate the visiting computers on the backdoor when users are browsing the contents. Also, if people download programs from some unreliable sources, they can be the targets of this infection as well. This virus can be bundled with other programs that can be really needed by computer users. So in this way, computer users can be infected by this infection when they finish the installation of the affected software.

When this Adware.OpenCandy.51 is installed on the infected machines, it can modify the browsers on the computers. Mostly, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome can be corrupted by it. Many unwanted extension can be added into the browsers, and the homepage and search engine can be replaced by some malicious websites which are designed to download other computer threats to the computers by cyber hackers. While people are using the infected computers, they can receive many irrelevant pop-ups which can slow down the performance of the machines. Users will have to wait a long time to run programs as those pop-ups can waste many CPU resources. With such a computer threat activating, the infected computers can be overheated which can cause black screen and even blue screen of death suddenly and constantly.

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 Adware.OpenCandy.51 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

Adware.OpenCandy.51 is a Trojan horse infection that can cause severe problems to infected machines. Windows machines can be targeted by this infection and it can infiltrate with different ways. Once this infection starts to work on the affected machines, it can generate many problems to the systems. Users will get poor performance on their machines if this infection cannot be removed as fast as possible. If this infection stays on your computer, please do not hesitate to get rid of it.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Adware.OpenCandy.51? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on December 26, 2014 1:00 pm

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