I have a virus called Trojan.Silbrute.B!gm on my XP desktop. My anti-virus program helps me detect it but it can’t get rid of this infection for me. I don’t know why. Usually, the security tool can help me out from virus attacks. But this time, the tool can only quarantine the virus. I know nothing about computer, so it is impossible for me to remove this virus by my own. I really appreciate your help.

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.Silbrute.B!gm is deemed to be a malicious Trojan horse infection which can bring troubles to the infected computers. It is a world-wide infection that can be spread from the Internet by cyber criminals. What it can do to the infected computers are chaos and problems. The main targets of this infection can be the computers which have Windows operating systems. In another word, computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 can be the targets of this infection. People can be aimed by this virus in many ways as cyber hackers can upload this virus to the web with different covers. It is hard for anti-virus programs to remove this infection completely and permanently as it can harm the security system on the infected machines as well.

The makers of this Trojan.Silbrute.B!gm infection can forge it to be a useful program or an optional program bundled with other commonly-used software, when people download and install the infected programs to their systems, they will have this virus running on the background at the same time. Also, this virus can be hidden on many dangerous pages, people will be targeted by it if they come to the corrupted websites. This virus can pretend to be a cache file that downloaded automatically by the systems. Once this virus sneaks into target machines, it can generate problems instantly.

This Trojan.Silbrute.B!gm can be activated once the infected computers are booted up as it is added to the system registry when it comes. A lot of system settings can be modified by this infection as well. In this case, people will keep encountering system errors during the use. The performance of the affected machines can be slowed down. The CPU resource can be wasted greatly by this virus which can make users have no enough space to run other programs. System related files can be corrupted by this Trojan which will lead to more and more problems.

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.Silbrute.B!gm 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 Trojan.Silbrute.B!gm is a very sophisticated virus that hides from most virus detection software and can restore itself if not completely removed. Also, it can damage the security systems on the infected computers. The infected computers can be totally compromised so that this virus can help many other kinds of computer viruses to come and make the situation worse and worse. Cyber hackers who create this infection can use it to access the infected computers remotely and secretly. Sensitive information especially bank details can be stolen by those bad guys so that they will use them to get more illegal benefits. In order to protect your computer from being attacked by more viruses and keep your personal information safe, this virus must be eradicated as soon as possible.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Trojan.Silbrute.B!gm? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on March 10, 2016 1:07 pm

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