How to Remove Trojan Horse PSW.Generic11.CIZG Virus Manually

The antivirus program I installed on my computer reported that my computer has been infected by this Trojan Horse PSW.Generic11.CIZG virus. Though I think I notice the infection in time I have barriers in removing the virus completely. I can’t make the step on finding out the exact path of the virus on my system files. Every time I restart my computer and scan it fully it would be found out again. How can I eliminate it for long?

Trojan Horse PSW.Generic11.CIZG Trojan Virus Infection Detection

The Trojan Horse PSW.Generic11.CIZG virus is a newly-discovered Trojan virus. It has become quite common infection among Windows operating systems. No matter if you have antivirus or not this virus seems to be able to attack any computers. It often disguises itself by bundling to some popular software. It can also be under some regular processes to escape from the detection of any antivirus programs. People may be misled by online ads to download some free software or some popular programs which have been modified by hackers. There are always some suspicious files put in the installers. When you download and install them onto your own computer, the viruses or threats in them gain the chance to invade your system.

In most cases, antivirus software will not scan a program that has been allowed by the user to install. Thus the bundled viruses have short ways to get installed onto the system. As soon as the Trojan Horse PSW.Generic11.CIZG virus settles down, it will begin to spread its files and create some deeply in the system files. Those infected files will enable it to be reborn after some removals from antispyware. Net users often notice the infection when their antivirus programs scan their computers.

Note: Manual Removal requires expertise and it is for advanced users, if you don’t have much experience in dealing with redirect virus.
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Symptoms of Similar Trojan Infection :

– This virus can escape from most antivirus protection and get itself installed on computers especially with Windows operating systems.
– It can cause constant stuck or even blue screens on the infected computers.
– Computer users will experience constant security pop ups on the computers which may not truly represent the status of the PCs.
– Certain malware or spyware may be prompted by these fake security pop ups which will end up scamming money.
– Sensitive data like privacy can also be stolen and taken advantages by cyber criminals.

Manual Removal Step by Step Instructions

Up till now, there is not a perfect antivirus that can detect this pesky Trojan virus or delete it completely. Trojan Horse PSW.Generic11.CIZG has been updated by remote and backstage cyber criminals and is able to escape from the scan of any anti-virus programs thus it is hard to be removed or even found. The most effective way is to remove it manually. The following instructions need quite level of computer expertise. If you don’t know how to that correctly, please contact with YooSecurity online support now!

Step A: Check on your start menu if there are any programs that you are not familiar with. The strange ones will often related to the virus process as it can start automatically with the windows. You can press on Windows key or just click on the start menu to view it. Please notice that you need to click on All Programs to have an overall check on it.

Step B: To remove the Trojan the first thing we need to do is to end its process thus we will not get the error message when we delete its files. To do that, open Windows Task Manager to end process related to this Trojan infection. You can press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys at the same time to pull up Window Task Manager; go to Processes tab on top and scroll down the list to find.

windows task manager

Step C: Always any virus files will be hidden files. So we need to show hidden files before we are going to delete them. Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options (As an easy way you can open a folder and hold Alt key and tap on T, O key one by one and folder option window will pops up). Go to Folder Options window, under View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click Apply and then hit OK.

folder options

After we can see hidden folders and files we can go to system files and delete the infected files. The path of the virus often can be found from the antivirus which detects it.

program data

Step D: After we delete the virus files from system data we get to remove the registry of the virus from registry editor to prevent it from coming back. You can get Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys to pull up Run box and type in regedit to open Registry Editor.

Run box

The following is how Windows Registry Editor looks like.

Registry Editor

Step E: Delete all these associated files and registry entries with this Trojan virus from Registry Editor. The registry files are listed randomly. Besides, you need to delete the infection files of the redirect virus from your system files to prevent it from coming back. Those files are named randomly also but may be different on different operating systems.

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To Summarize Shortly:

Trojan Horse PSW.Generic11.CIZG is an Trojan virus without any doubts. It has been widely spread among Windows computers recently. When the computer users are visiting some websites that have many back links the virus behind the links will have chance to access the computer. The virus is always seeking out any system hole on the invaded computers to make it more and more vulnerable. And the possibility of infection will be enlarged. In other words, this Trojan opens a door on your computer and leads other online computer malware, worms, and Trojan viruses to attack it.

Note: Have tried many methods but failed to get rid of this Trojan virus? If you have no clue, please contact YooSecurity Online Experts in time to save your computer.