Can someone teach me how to remove this Win32/IRCBot.NHR safely without losing any other data from my computer? I have this infection on my computer for several weeks and I have no clue on how to get it removed. I’m afraid to use my computer cause I think it is not safe to input my information on a infected computer. It is really a hard time as I need my computer for my essay now, what can I do? Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Win32/IRCBot.NHR is an extreme dangerous computer threat which is designed by cyber criminals. It comes from Trojan horse virus family that targets on computers with Windows operating systems. Trojan horse is a kind of computer virus that can be used for cyber hackers to obtain illegal benefits and some specific purposes from innocent computer users which has a long history with the development of Windows systems. PC users can hardly notice its invasion as it can perform its activities at the backdoor. Also, once it is activated on the target computers, people can find nothing weird when they use the corrupted machines as this Trojan is running in the background. That can be really hard for inexperienced computer users to find the process.

The Internet can be biggest source of this Win32/IRCBot.NHR as cyber hackers can distribute this infection onto many web pages and unsafe links. Those bad guys can hack into many websites and make them for their own use. They can implant this Trojan into those websites’ servers and edit the malicious scripts to the web pages, so in this case, when people visit the infected websites by accident, this Trojan can sneak into the visiting computers as a cache file. Also, this Trojan can hide in those unreliable pop-ups and suspicious links, after people click on them, this Trojan can infiltrate their computers as well. What’s more, cyber criminals can be able to spread this virus via E-mails, that’s to say, they can forge this Trojan as a useful attachment in those letters which are disguised coming from legit places to lure people to open.

With this Win32/IRCBot.NHR activating in the background, cyber hackers can be able to connect to the infected machines remotely and silently. They can do everything they want once they have connection to the infected computers. People will not notice that they have been monitored by someone unknown at the backdoor. What’s worse, the information saved on the infected machines can be stolen by cyber hackers without notice, financial details like back account password and credit card information can be the main targets for hackers to steal. Once that information is grasped by criminals, people can suffer from money losses. It is urgent for every PC user who gets infected by this virus to remove it completely from computer before more damages and losses occur.

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 Win32/IRCBot.NHR 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.

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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

Win32/IRCBot.NHR is a Trojan infection that can slow down the infected computers from many aspects. PC users will get unwanted problems on the affected machines constantly. To make the situation even worse, cyber hackers can connect to the infected machines and implant other kinds of computer threats with the help of this Trojan infection. The information especially financial details saved on the infected computers can be stolen by cyber hackers and used for other crimes like fraud.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of Win32/IRCBot.NHR? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on December 9, 2014 1:22 pm

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