Hey, Avast just now told me that computer was infected with Backdoor.Win32.Sixer, but after Avast ran the full scan and removal, this virus still affects my computer files and programs. It seems more stubborn and can’t be removed by antivirus at all. What suggestion can you give to completely remove this virus? My mom should blame me to death for this issue as she usually doesn’t allow me to use this computer to play games online, and this is her work computer, she stores many business data on this computer. So can you help me out of this issue soon before my mom knows that?
Backdoor.Win32.Sixer Virus Description:
Backdoor.Win32.Sixer is a dangerous and harmful Trojan backdoor to attack different version of Windows computer. If computer gets this Trojan virus, it will have many problems and runs in a malfunctioned way. Trojan virus together with other infections is almost spread online by cyber criminals. It can be distributed via hacked and porn websites, malicious links, free downloads shareware, spam email attachments and peer-to-peer files and so on. Hacked and porn sites are usually controlled by cyber criminals to insert this Trojan infection into it. And when PC users visit those websites or other malicious contents, this virus will surely drop on your computer suddenly. In those sites, they will disguise this Backdoor.Win32.Sixer virus as an attractive pop up, flash picture or surprise prize or scaring fake security alert to lure you to click on them. One click will bring evil into your computer. Besides, free downloads are also the threat to your computer security. Cyber criminals can also bundle this Trojan virus into those free software. While you’re downloading and installing the software you need, this virus will easily come into computer.
Backdoor.Win32.Sixer will surely create problems and troubles to your computer when it gets on computer. For example, it may shut down and restart again automatically while you’re still conducting some activities on computer. In this case, your computer’s registry editor and startup item have been inserted into malicious code of this virus to disorder your computer. And some important system files may be changed and disabled by this Trojan virus totally, so you will find some program cannot run normally and some strange exe file shortcuts showing on the desktop but cannot be deleted. Some documents, files, MS Word, Excel or folder are not in the original place. They might be cleaned by this Trojan virus already. Due to this Backdoor.Win32.Sixer infection, the DNS setting may be somehow changed and you cannot access to the Internet normally. Some victims said the back ground of desktop also is changed since the computer is infected with this virus. What’s worse, this virus also can exploit loopholes and pathway to bring other threats into infected computer. More threats will create more junks, take up more system capacity, occupy more CPU usage and more slow down computer performance. Therefore, you have to eradicate this Backdoor.Win32.Sixer soon.
Some Traits about Backdoor.Win32.Sixer 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 Backdoor.Win32.Sixer 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 Backdoor.Win32.Sixer 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”.
>>>>>> 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”.
>>>>>> You will need to find out the suspicious registry files related to this Backdoor.Win32.Sixer 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.
>>>>>> After you find out the suspicious registry files, you need to find out where the .exe files of the Trojan 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:).
>>>>>> Basically speaking, all the related files of Backdoor.Win32.Sixer 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.
Video of Key Steps on How to Modify or Change Windows Registry:
Summary:
Backdoor.Win32.Sixer 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 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 Backdoor.Win32.Sixer 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 Backdoor.Win32.Sixer virus. You can contact YooCare/YooSecurity PC professional online service for help:
Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on April 17, 2016 2:27 am
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