I can’t get rid of a virus named Infostealer.Olymvis on my computer. I have tried many ways posted on the Internet but none of them can work for my case. I can always get the virus warning from my security tool each time after I restart my computer. I have no clue now as my computer knowledge is too short. I need urgent help as I think my personal information saved on the system has already been stolen. Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Infostealer.Olymvis is a malicious Trojan horse infection which created by cyber hackers. It aims to steal personal information on the infected computers for cyber hackers, so that those bad crooks can abuse the information to get more illegal benefits. Except that, the infected computers can be completely messed up by this infection. If this infection can stay on the infected computers for a long time, the entire systems will be damaged as this Trojan can be capable to infect system related files and change many system settings. In order to avoid more problems, once computer users get informed about this virus, it must be eradicated as soon as possible, otherwise, the consequence can be fatal as this Trojan is extremely dangerous.

As a baleful Trojan horse infection, this Infostealer.Olymvis infection mainly attacks the computers that run Windows operating systems. That’s to say, computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 8 can be the primary targets of this infection. The ways for cyber hackers to spread this infection can be various. Cyber hackers can upload this infection to some corrupted websites that have been controlled by them, so that once computer users comes to the infected pages, their systems can get the virus attack instantly. Also, this virus can be installed to the target computers as it can be bundled with other commonly used programs by cyber hackers.

Once this Infostealer.Olymvis infection sneaks into target computers, it can start to damage the whole system right away. The system registry will be corrupted by its vicious data and many system settings can be changed arbitrarily. With the help of this infection, cyber hackers can be able to connect to the infected computers. Under this circumstance, all the information saved on the infected machines can be stolen by cyber hackers. Also, PC users will keep getting unsafe links during the use which are designed by cyber hackers as well. Those links can take users to some unknown web pages that can contain more viruses and malware.

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 Infostealer.Olymvis 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.

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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

Infostealer.Olymvis is a tricky infection which can spread widely on the Internet by cyber criminals. Once this infection infiltrates target systems, it will make chaos to the entire systems. Systems will encounter black screen and blue screen of death often due to wrong system settings. The condition of the infected computers can be worse and worse if this virus cannot be removed in time. It can slow down the performance of the infected systems greatly on the background. It is a must to get rid of this virus as the infected computers can be targeted by more and more computer malware from the Internet. Also, this infection can make the systems be completely compromised.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Infostealer.Olymvis? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on March 23, 2016 12:33 pm

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