My system detected a virus called Trojan.Chikdos!g2 for me yesterday. I tried to get rid of it but failed. I don’t know where to locate it as my computer knowledge is limited. What will the virus do to my machine? I keep getting pop-ups when I go online, can it be a part of this virus? If so, how can I eradicate this virus completely without causing more problems? Please advise.

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.Chikdos!g2 is a Trojan horse infection that made by cyber criminals who want to damage innocent computers so that they can get illegal benefits from PC users. Computers run Windows operating systems can be the main targets for this virus to attack. This Trojan can be widely spread on the Internet by cyber hackers, so it can attack computers all over the world. It is a malicious Trojan virus which can be activated from the startup and perform all its activities on the background that users will not be able to notice. Once this infection infiltrates target computers, it can start its vicious work immediately. Once you get informed about this virus from your anti-virus program, you need to be cautious as it can make your computer be completely compromised.

Even many anti-virus programs can help users to detect this Trojan.Chikdos!g2, we have found that not many security tools can remove this infection for users at present. It is a new version of Trojan virus that tools need to update their virus library to get the removal solution. Before the tools can do that, this Trojan virus can already disable them from the system registry, also, the system firewall can be turned off. That can be really bad as the infection computers can be out of protection which can be attacked by more computer viruses coming from the Internet.

Trojan.Chikdos!g2 can generate a lot of pop-ups which can contain other kinds of computer viruses. If people click the links by mistake, they can be redirected to some unknown and dangerous pages which can download the viruses automatically. This Trojan virus can mess up the whole system from changing the system registry and infecting system-related files. Under this case, the infected systems can face many severe problems during the use and users will get black screen and blue screen of death often. What’s worse, cyber hackers can be able to utilize this infection to access infected computer illegally, that’s to say, those bad guys can connect to the infected systems secretly. They mainly use this virus to steal personal information especially financial details saved on the infected systems so that they can get more illegal benefits.

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.Chikdos!g2 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.

4789794954_df8cfb11b2

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

Trojan.Chikdos!g2 is a tricky and dangerous Trojan horse infection that aims on Windows computers all over the world. It is not easy for computer users to remove this infection easily as it can disable the security systems on the infected computers on the background. With the help of this infection, more and more computer viruses can be downloaded and make more damages to the corrupted machines. In order to prevent more troubles happen, users who encounter this infection on their computers must take action to get rid of it in time.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Trojan.Chikdos!g2? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on October 27, 2015 5:54 am

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