I was told by the antivirus program that my computer was infected by Gen:Adware.Heur, and that’s a Trojan. I don’t remember why my computer suffer from this virus, I guess it’s not that important now. What really matters is that I need to remove the virus manually, to be honesty, I’m not good at dealing with computer issues, I was gonna leave this aside at first, however, this Gen:Adware.Heur virus really affects my work anyway, especially when I launched the explorer, the undying pup-up ads showed on the screen constantly. I’m tired of closing the ads each time. So if anyone who happens to solve this problem before, can you please tell me how? Thank you! 

Brief Introduction to Gen:Adware.Heur

Gen:Adware.Heur is another newly Trojan spread on the internet, it is a heuristic detection for malicious code that may be installed on the computer by another threat. Even though it’s a Trojan, it acts like a adware or hijacker, it has the similar function, browser redirect, pop-up ads, tool bar, or unwanted browser add-on and extension. It’s the same reason for innocent user to be infected by this virus. That’s nothing more than you browse the malicious websites, click the links from spam email, open the random pop-ups etc. Gen:Adware.Heur will silently install in your system after among things you had done. This virus was created to gain profit, cyber criminals use it to play unless ads promos and raffles to victims, so it could it generate web traffic, collect sales lead for other dubious sites. But, for most victims, they will get nothing more than angry, frustrated and helpless by seeing their computer get stuck or even freezed.  Read the rest of this post »

Published by Tony Shepherd on September 23, 2014 6:04 pm and last modified on September 26, 2014 5:08 am.

Trojan:Win64/Discper.B virus messed up my computer terribly and it made me freaked out. I picked up the Trojan horse when I was downloading a freeware to supposedly optimize the system. I have tried to remove the Trojan horse with advanced anti-virus software but to no avail. How to save my computer? What is the most effective way to get rid of the Trojan horse? Any Trojan removal guide will enable me to regain a clean computer.

Information about Trojan:Win64/Discper.B Virus:

Trojan:Win64/Discper.B is a risky Trojan horse that brings PC users lots of troubles and loss. It is a computer infection of high threat level, attempting to target worldwide computer users. PC users who receive attachments from others carelessly, visit harmful sites and download freeware from affected web pages etc. are apt to suffer from this Trojan horse. Upon arrival, the Trojan will load as a background program every time you launch the system. It is a potentially unwanted program that that takes up lots of resources. The performance of the contaminated system and the Internet connection will be terribly affected. In detail, the affected computer just experiences system stuck and constant freezes while you surf the web, run large programs and play games and so on. It may result in system crash, blue screen errors and startup failure if you leave the Trojan horse in the system for a long time. Moreover, the notorious Trojan infection can disable functions of your normal programs, making them impossible to deal with any computer threat. Consequently, it is necessary for users to get the Trojan virus off your computer immediately and manually.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on September 23, 2014 1:09 pm and last modified on September 23, 2014 1:23 pm.

Hey, I meet a pesky problem and can you help me? Every time when I click a new tab on Firefox Mozilla, a new website called Start2.me comes up. What makes me most annoying is that numbers of ads shows on this website. I close pop-up ads and new ads continue to turn up. I thought I must have clicked something wrong and some kind of malware should drop on my computer by accident when I watched a show online. I don’t know what exactly it is. Can you guys help me get rid of it?

Description of Start2.me Hijacker

Well, many PC users may wonder if this Start2.me is a real search engine and a useful website, because it looks like a legit search engine and seems there is no harm, besides it also displays a yahoo search on its interface, which lists common website links under the search bar. However, it is actually a fake search engine and behaves as a browser hijacker. Every time when you enter what you want to search via this search engine, you will always receive a wrong search result or you are redirected to some unknown webpage directly. You will see wrong results with sponsored links or advertisements listed, and if you continue to click on those links or advertising, you will be further redirected to questionable website. When this hijacker comes and gets installed on your computer, it will root its files on operating system and insert add-ons or extensions to your browsers and then change your browser default setting; it will change your homepage to www. Start2.me and replace your default search engine like Goolgle with its own search engine. Thus you have to use it as the new homepage and its search engine. Though change mentioned above, it will be easy and convenient for this hijacker to control you and monitor your online activities and attracts you to click its ads or links. The more clicks Start2.me receives, the more money hackers can earn from ads-supporters. What’s worse, Start2.me hijacker can collects your sensitive personal data like banking details, emails password or other information storage on your computer, which will lets your personal information in a high risk of being leaking even makes you suffer from financial loss. In a word, Start2.me is a fake search engine and does no good to your computer, but put your information and machine in a dangerous situation.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on September 22, 2014 6:57 pm and last modified on September 26, 2014 12:28 pm.

Published by Tony Shepherd on September 22, 2014 2:26 pm and last modified on March 2, 2018 5:11 am.

I must have done something wrong on my computer. Now this Win32/pyrtomsop.A is on my computer. I don’t know how to remove this harmful Trojan from my computer as I don’t get too much computer knowledge. I have tried to use some anti-virus programs to help, but all of them failed. Now I think my computer is in a great mess. How can I get this thing removed from my computer completely without any damage to it? Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Win32/pyrtomsop.A can be categorized as a Trojan horse infection which is able to damage the infected computer severely. As a malicious Trojan virus, the targets of it are those computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 8, which means all the Windows-based machines can be infected by this Trojan if it can seize a chance to sneak into the target computer. Even though many famous and powerful anti-virus programs are capable to detect this Trojan for computer users, it is not easy for them to remove this Trojan completely and permanently from the infected computer as this Trojan is able to escape from those security tools and it can duplicate itself the many locations on the infected machine, also, many system files can be corrupted which also increase the difficulty to get it removed. Read the rest of this post »

Published by Tony Shepherd on September 22, 2014 1:26 pm

I was stoned at what I found on my computer today. My antivirus program delivered me a threat detected. When I open it, it said my computer was infected by a virus, named Trojan.Newarxy, and the dangerous level is high. Crap, I don’t even know how did I got this Trojan in the first place. However, that’s not the point, I’m confused with that my antivirus program told me this Trojan needs to be removed manually. I mean since it could find out the problem, why can’t it fix the problem as well! Now, I finally know, antivirus program can’t fix all the problems! No matter what, it seems Trojan.Newarxy is not a small problem, I can’t launch few programs on my computer, I think this is not a coincident, I’m worry about the private info in my PC. What should I do now?

Brief Introduction to Trojan.Newarxy

Trojan.Newarxy is a newly Trojan which is created by cyber criminals, they will use it to remotely attack random user, and make the infected system as their proxy server. It will attack the computer with operating system as windows xp, windows vista, windows 7 etc. When you browse the malicous websites, click the links from spam email, open the random popups, this Trojan.Newarxy may already installed in your system silently without letting you know. Also it will furtively download and install many other software without your permission, most of the programs are malicious, belong to malware which could harm your computer. This is a high level dangerous virus, and it intends to cause the computer into chaos, and the downside is that many of your programs are failure to use, the situation depends from different users, some may not log in system at all.  Read the rest of this post »

Published by Tony Shepherd on September 22, 2014 12:34 pm and last modified on September 22, 2014 2:32 pm.

I got this Search.getwebcake.com site popping up with many random ads or messages when I launched the Firefox this morning. I found that my default browser homepage and other settings were changed, but I failed to reset them. The browser redirect corrupted my computer and made it bad to worse. I was quite confused how the hijacker got into the computer since I’ve installed advanced anti-virus software. I am freaked out and need to find an effective way to get rid of the pesky browser hijacker. Please help!

Brief Introduction about This Search.getwebcake.com

Search.getwebcake.com is identified as a pesky browser hijacker that attempts to target computer users from the worldwide. It is released by cyber hackers who obtain tricky tactics to distribute the nasty infection widely. PC users may suffer from this hijacker infection during their visits to unknown sites, spam emails and free download etc. The browser redirect can cause destructive damages to victimized computers. It adds to your Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and other web browsers upon its arrival. With the help of the browser hijacker, some unknown add-ons, extensions and plug-ins can be installed in the computer automatically. Unfortunately, more additional threats like parasites, rootkits, worms and malware may take the chance to get into the contaminated computer secretly. While being targeted, the computer performs extremely slowly and it is frozen up sometimes at startup, running large programs and loading sites and so forth. Your antivirus and other executable programs are affected and fail to take effective. As a result, the affected computer is at low security level, which requires users to get the harmful hijacker infection off the computer promptly.
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Published by Tony Shepherd on September 22, 2014 5:34 am and last modified on October 22, 2014 5:39 pm.

Hi, my PC is affected by something called Backdoor:Win32/Plugx.K and I’ve been trying to find the source and where it is but no luck. I tried using my antivirus program to scan and kill it but no fix; it seems that it is never gone in my computer. I just perform such simple activities as chatting with friends, listening to the music, watching the video and surfing online on my computer. How can I get this nasty virus? And what can I do to get rid of it completely?

Backdoor:Win32/Plugx.K Virus Description:

Backdoor:Win32/Plugx.K virus is a dangerous and infectious backdoor Trojan horse. It can perform destructive activities on your computer. Although it can be detected by some antivirus programs, cannot be removed by antivirus. And once security programs detect this Trojan horse on users’ computer, it also means that the computer has already been infected with this virus severely. It has a strong ability to corrupt system files and disorder windows registry. Many crucial system files can be damaged or re-edited or deleted by this Trojan horse, which will severely cause the system to run improperly. Backdoor:Win32/Plugx.K Trojan even can invade and destroy antivirus programs’ firewall and remove files related to security tool, which will make your security tool disable and becomes useless. That is why some victims even cannot get any security report from their antivirus and security tool cannot remove it at all. In order to deeply root in your computer, it also can duplicate itself into computer security loopholes and hide in many places in the hard drive. Backdoor:Win32/Plugx.K is good at changing your registry settings, and adding new codes on your computer system. Then you cannot surf online smoothly and you will be redirected to different kinds of malicious websites, receive numbers of ads, pop-ups, flash pictures or links, even your desktop will be full of strange shortcuts, some of which cannot be deleted. It even does not allow you to download any new programs or applications by displaying a message like “your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded” to block you. It aims at blocking you to access any tool to remove itself. Gradually, your computer will be controlled completely by this Trojan horse and you cannot do anything to remove it. Finally, your computer will be broken and cannot be used any more. If you find Backdoor:Win32/Plugx.K virus on your machine, you must figure out a way to remove it at once before it throws further damages on your computer.

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Published by Tony Shepherd on September 21, 2014 7:50 am and last modified on May 27, 2015 5:35 am.

Hey, I got this websearch.searchandfly.info as my homepage. I don’t how this thing come to my browser as I didn’t do anything wrong. Now I think I’m facing a tough problem because I’m not able to change the page to be a desired one. That’s really annoying as every time I open my browser, I get redirected to this page. I don’t want it at all! How can I change my homepage? Please advise.

Brief Introduction to This Website

Websearch.searchandfly.info looks like a legit website when people see it in the first place, and will not think too much about what it really is. As a matter of fact, the essential attributes of it is not a legal web page at all. It has been proved that it belongs to be a malicious browser hijacker that can affect browsers installed on the infected computers. Now, many innocent computer users are suffering from this redirect infection all over the world, and some of them don’t even notice it is a computer threat on their computers. Due to the appearance of it, many inexperienced PC users can hardly know what this thing can bring to their computers as they only think it is a website that provides online searching. Read the rest of this post »

Published by Tony Shepherd on September 21, 2014 5:31 am and last modified on September 22, 2014 8:20 am.

Dear Lord! My Antivirus program just told me, my computer was infected by Win32/pyrtomsop.A virus, the virus test report showed me that this is a Trojan. But I’m confused, since the Antivirus program already found out the virus, why didn’t it do the rest, like get rid of the Trojan, it just like a doctor tells you, “you are sick, but I can’t help!” I googled the reasons how a computer user would get a Trojan in the first place, and I figured out that’ s because I clicked a link from a spam email which offer the so-called new version of Adobe Flash Player, I can’t remember why I downloaded it. Whatever, what I want to do most right now is that, I want to remove this virus before the worst situation happen to my PC, I need advices, help!

Brief Introduction to Win32/pyrtomsop.A virus

Win32/pyrtomsop.A virus is a newly Trojan which is widely spreading over internet nowadays. Microsoft Security Essentials, Windows Defender and other antivirus programs contain a file for it, like a normal detection but will act like features and behavior of a Trojan. Once your computer was infected by Win32/pyrtomsop.A, it will furtively download and install many other software without your permission, most of the programs are malicious, belong to malware which could harm your computer. Normally, your computer may get this virus from third-party application, the virus is commonly bundled with free programs which people barely know. Still, due to many different reasons, many victims are enticed to download freeware bundled with Trojan. For example, users may be fooled by using non-malicious programs, like Web browsers, then will probably make a dumb action they didn’t know, such as downloading malware which is the main method they let their computers infect by Trojan. Or there are many harmless programs may have flaws that malware or Hacker can exploit to perform malicious actions. What’s more, a spam email could contain attachments or links to malicious websites. All the ways can infect your machine through exploit kits that use vulnerabilities on your computer to install this Trojan without your permission of knowledge. It’s clear that this virus was designed by cyber criminals for bad means. At this point, we need to be careful when download programs! Read the rest of this post »

Published by Tony Shepherd on September 21, 2014 1:40 am and last modified on September 22, 2014 2:33 pm.