How to Remove Trojan.DNSChanger

My ant-virus program picks this Trojan.DNSChanger up on my computer, but it is not able to get it removed? I don’t know what to do now. I know it is a bad virus that can harm my computer, but my poor computer knowledge will not give me the chance to do the removal work by my own. I really need someone’s help to get this done. Thank you in advance.

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.DNSChanger is a bad Trojan horse infection which can help cyber hackers to accomplish malicious tasks and gain illegal benefits from innocent computer users. Trojan virus is a type of computer threat that has been invented for a really long time since 1990s. With the development of computer technology, the Trojan can be developed to be more and more stubborn and imperceptible. It is not easy for inexperienced computer users to avoid being infected by such kind of infection. Luckily, many online security companies have created different kinds of anti-virus programs to protect computers, which can reduce the harm from this infection. However, in order to get remove of this kind of infection, we haven’t found any perfect auto-removal tool that can get rid of it easily and permanently.

It can be real difficult to remove this Trojan.DNSChanger as it is designed by hackers to damage the security system on the infected machines, so that it can escape from the scan of security tools. Also, this Trojan infection can be capable to corrupted system-related files to avoid being caught. It can be really bad to have those system files corrupted as it may lead to many fatal computer problems. Users will get black screen and blue screen of death on the affected machines often without any warning. That can generate more problems and even hardware problems. In order to be activated from the start up, this Trojan can be able to modify the system registry as well.

What makes the situation worse is that this noxious Trojan.DNSChanger can turn off the system firewall to let other kinds of computer infection to be downloaded. The whole infected system will become a virus library if this Trojan cannot be removed in time. That can make computer users face more problems. With this Trojan’s help, cyber hackers can connect to the infected computer remotely without get approved by users. Generally, what cyber hackers want are the financial information like bank details and credit card materials, so that they can abuse the information for other crime. Also, cyber criminals can implant other computer virus to the corrupted machines if they have the illegal connection with them.

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.DNSChanger 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.

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.

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

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

Then try to find the program which relates to this Trojan, highlight it and choose Remove, the program’s name is random.

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

Trojan.DNSChanger is a really bad computer infection with strong destructivity. People can get attacked by this infection when they go online carelessly. Once it sneaks into the target computers, it can start its evil work immediately. The performance of the infected machine can be slowed down by it as this Trojan can consume too much CPU usage on the background. Also, hackers can take advantage of this infection to take control of the corrupted machines. In order to keep the privacy safe, users need to remove it as soon as possible from the infected machines.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on January 21, 2015 5:54 am