I need help! I have been targeted by a virus called Trojan.Gatak.B. I have no way to remove it by my own as I barely know little about computer. I have asked some advice from a friend of mine, he told me I can try to install anti-virus programs to remove it. So I followed his advice to install anti-virus programs, but after I have tried some, I gave up as none of them can help me remove it completely and permanently. I don’t know why. Can somebody help?

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Trojan.Gatak.B is an extremely vicious Trojan horse infection which can target the computers that run Windows operating systems. It is a worldwide infection as it can be spread by cyber hackers on the Internet with many ways. People can get informed about this Trojan infection by their anti-virus programs, but it doesn’t mean that those security tools can fix this problem very fast for computer users. We have found that this Trojan virus is too tricky for auto removal tools to handle as cyber criminals have designed it to corrupt the entire system including the security system once it intrudes. So, under this bad circumstance, even though users can notice that their computers have been targeted by this infection, but they will get a lot of difficulties on removing this infection from their machines.

Internet can be the biggest place for computer users to share information and programs. We can get lot of benefits from it, but it also provides a large scale of chances for hackers to perform illegal activities. This Trojan.Gatak.B can be implanted into websites that have already been controlled by cyber hackers. It is not an easy thing for users to judge which page is good or infected. So as soon as people come to the corrupted pages, this Trojan can be downloaded automatically as a cache file. In addition, cyber hackers can forge this Trojan as an optional program and bundle it with other commonly used and downloaded programs on the Internet for people to use. So, when people have the infected programs installed on their machines, this Trojan can sneak into the system at the same time.

Once this Trojan.Gatak.B virus infiltrates the target machines, it would begin to damage the system right away. To make sure it won’t be removed by anti-virus programs, this Trojan can have the ability to disable the tools and turn off the system firewall on the background with being known by computer users. Also, it can corrupt the system-related files to avoid being removed. Once the system files are damaged, the system will perform in a poor and abnormal way. Users will get many errors during the use and sometimes black screen or blue screen of death can happen often.

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.Gatak.B 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.Gatak.B virus must be removed in time, otherwise it can help cyber hackers to achieve many evil goals. With the help of this infection, many other computer viruses can be downloaded which can mess up the whole system more. What’s worse, this Trojan can be able to help cyber hackers to connect to the infected computer in a secret way without users’ notice. In that case, those bad crooks can do anything they want remotely which can be a disaster for computer users.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on June 16, 2015 11:37 pm

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