Don’t know how to get rid of a virus called Trojan.Wortrik from my computer. I have tried all the ways that I can find on the web to remove it. This virus is really stubborn, it can always restore itself after I restart my computer. I don’t know what to do now as my computer knowledge is short. How can I completely eradicate this infection from my machine? Please advise.

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.Wortrik is a new Trojan horse infection that created by cyber criminals. It can make severe damages to the infected computers once it sneaks into the systems. As a dangerous Trojan horse infection, the main targets of it can be those computers that have Windows operating systems. In order to attack more computers and get more benefits from victims, cyber hackers who make it can spread it with a lot of ways. It is hard for inexperienced computer users to prevent this infection from invasion. Even though many anti-virus programs can detect this infection for computer users, it doesn’t mean that those security tools can get rid of this infection easily. This Trojan virus can corrupt system files and weaken the security levels on the infected computers once it comes so that it can stay on the systems to make more troubles.

Cyber hackers can mainly spread this Trojan.Wortrik infection on the Internet. Usually, those bad crooks can take control of some corrupted pages and make them become the proxy servers to hide this virus. When people go to those affected pages, their computers can be targeted by this virus right away. Moreover, this infection can come to the infected computers with other programs. That’s to say, when people install programs on their computers, they will be attacked by this virus cause cyber hackers can bundle this infection with other programs, and it is not easy for computers users to distinguish those bad programs from the web.

Trojan.Wortrik can make great chaos to the whole systems once it sneaks into the machines. To make sure it can start to work from the startup, it can modify the system registry with its vicious data. Also, system settings can be changed by it arbitrarily. Under this case, PC users will suffer from lot of system errors and problems during the use. Black screen and blue screen of death can happen often to the infected systems. What’s worse, this infection can disable the security systems on the infected computers to make them completely compromised. The infected computers can be targeted by more computer viruses coming from the web which can make further damages.

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.Wortrik 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.

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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

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

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

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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

Cyber hackers can utilize this Trojan.Wortrik infection to gain illegal purposes from the infected computers. They can be capable to connect to the infected systems without being approved by computer users and steal all the personal information saved. Also, they can implant more computer malware to the infected computers to mess up the whole system. It is a must for computer users who encounter this virus on their computers to get rid of it as soon as possible. If this infection can stay on the machines for a long time, the performance of the infected systems will be slowed down greatly and users will always get problems.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Trojan.Wortrik? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on May 12, 2016 1:13 pm

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