Help! My computer is attacked by a virus called Trojan.Bayrob!gen8. I tried to fix it by my own but failed. My anti-virus program also didn’t help me out of it. I don’t know why. I really need help as my computer knowledge is limited. I don’t want to mess up my computer. This virus is super annoying and stubborn. I want to clean my computer from this virus, but I don’t know how. Any advice?

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.Bayrob!gen8 can be spread by cyber hackers with a lot of ways. This Trojan horse infection is newly created by cyber hackers. It is used to attack computers that run Windows operating systems. When your computer is targeted by this infection, you will realize that your computer can perform in an abnormal way. You will suffer from a lot of problems and troubles during the use. Sometimes, your computer can shut down itself without any sign. Also, computer users can keep getting blue screen of death. With the help of this malicious virus, more and more other kinds of computer malware can come to the infected systems and make more damages. In one word, if your computer is infected with this virus, you will not be able to use your computer freely.

Cyber criminals who make this Trojan.Bayrob!gen8 infection can use the Internet as the biggest source to spread it. They can put this virus to the pages that have been corrupted by them, so once people go to the infected websites, their computers can be targeted by this virus instantly. In addition, cyber hackers can design this virus as a program for people to download. They can upload the fake program to some unsafe websites with unreal description. Some inexperienced who are cheated by it can download the program and install it on their systems.

Once this Trojan.Bayrob!gen8 virus sneaks into target computers, it will disable the anti-virus programs and shut down the system firewall. Under this case, the infected computers will be completely compromised so that this Trojan virus can help many other kinds of computer viruses to come and mess up the whole systems. The system registry will be changed by this virus which can lead the infected systems get a lot of system errors. This virus can contain a keylogger which can help cyber hackers to collect personal information saved on the infected computers especially fiscal details. People will even suffer from money losses if cyber hackers get the sensitive information.

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.Bayrob!gen8 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

It will be a disaster to get this Trojan.Bayrob!gen8 infection on your computer as it is really dangerous. It is hard for anti-virus programs to get rid of it completely as it can infect system related files and distribute itself to many locations on the infected computers. Cyber hackers can take advantage of this infection to collect information from the infected systems and gain more illegal benefits. The performance of the infected system will slowed down by this Trojan horse greatly as this virus can waste a large percents of CPU resource on the background. If this infection cannot be removed in time, more and more computer viruses can be downloaded to the infected systems which can make further harassment.
Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Trojan.Bayrob!gen8? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on May 19, 2016 8:30 am

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