Computer is infected with Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A? How can I get rid of this whistler rootkit? Why my antivirus seems just can’t take it out? Get so tired of the endless error messages? Read this article to find out the solution to get it fixed.

General Descriptions of Adware.Win32.YontooA

Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A is classified the latest version of the Win32.Yontoo series Trojan virus. As the most hazardous one in the virus types, Trojan virus is an extremely dangerous threat to user’s computer. The tricky virus overflows through the Internet and it tends to sneak into your computer when you’re using the Internet improperly. If you keep visiting pornographic sites or downloading unverified free software from untrusted pages, then it would be the source where the virus is hidden. You also need to be cautious when open suspicious attachments from unexpected emails because they can deliver the virus as well. The infection usually occurs without the user’s awareness or permission and then the virus pretends to be normal system files so the user won’t find out. Once it’s there, damages will soon be done to your computer. It can perform a lot of harmful activities on your system by revising the critical registry keys so your computer will be vulnerable and wide open to cyber hackers who can use this to remote in your system and steal everything they need. The most attracting info will be your credit card numbers and all kinds of banking info that can create economic benefits to the cyber criminals. Thus, in order to protect your computer and your properties as well, you need to learn how to get rid of Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A as soon as possible.

Usual Symptoms of Adware.Win32.Yontoo Infection

a) Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A pretends as system files and automatically downloads other threats from remote servers when the Internet connection is available.
b) The virus propagates very fast and thus leads to great consumption of system resource and network bandwidth thus severely reduces the performance of your computer.
c) It can block the functions of your antivirus programs, you can’t run them as well as updating them via Internet.
d) Create backdoor for intended hackers who will be able to control your computer and steal your important information such as private data and banking details.
e) The nasty Trojan forces your computer restart or shutdown frequently and unreasonably. Sometimes you even found your PC is totally crash down.
f) Attack and damage your system files and programs, you will find your computer is running weirdly and some programs are not able to run any more.

If there’s any difficulty for you to remove Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A from your computer, please contact YooSecurity professionals to keep your computer safe and virus free, or you can follow our step-by-step virus removal instruction below to clean the virus yourself. (For advanced computer users)

Best Way to Remove Win32.Yontoo.A Step by Step:

Firstly, please restart your computer and get in Safe Mode with Networking:

Please follow these steps to get rid of Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A manually:
Step 1: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Open the Windows Task Manager.
If that didn’t work, try another way. Press the Start button and click on the Run option. This will start the Run tool. Type in task-mgr and press OK. This should start the Windows Task Manager.

Step 2: Within the Windows Task Manager click on the Processes tab. Find the process by name. random.exe related to Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A. Then scroll the list to find required process. Select it with your mouse or keyboard and click on the End Process button. This will kill the process.

Step3: Remove malicious files of Adware.Win32.Yontoo.

C:\windows\system32\services.exe
C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s..s-servicecontroller_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_2b54b20ee6fa07b1\services.exe
C:\Windows\Installer\{bbee3ba2-89af-930c-bb78-1fb4e17db3cc}

Step4: Delete malicious registry entries of Adware.Win32.Yontoo.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer
“EnableShellExecuteHooks”= 1 (0x1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Video Show You on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:

In conclusion, Adware.Win32.YontooA has been proven as a vicious Trojan infection that can bring great damages to your computer by thousands of users. It slips into your system without any authorization from your side and then resides there for very long time taking a lot of harmful activities. After the infection you can feel your computer is just lagging in response and freezing over all the time, besides, endless error messages pop up to occupy your screen. If you try to run your security tool or antivirus, you will find they are totally disabled from running and scanning. Sometimes antivirus might be able to catch this virus but none of them can actually have it deleted completely. For the sake of kicking this stubborn torjan virus off your computer to prevent further damages, manual removal is proven to be the most effective solution.

Kindly reminder: Manual removal needs expert skills, if you failed to remove Adware.Win32.Yontoo.A by yourself,please contact YooSecurity professionals to keep your computer safe and virus free.

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on June 4, 2013 8:12 am

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