I was hit by this Win32/Kryptik.CVRX when I tried to search something on the Internet. I don’t know how it came to my computer as I had not done anything wrong. I just opened some web pages and after that the security tool that a tech guy installed for me gave me a warning about it. I have tried to remove it but failed. I don’t know what to do now, please tell me how to get rid of it, thank you.

Brief Introduction to This Trojan

Win32/Kryptik.CVRX can be classified as a severely dangerous Trojan horse infection. It has been reported by many victims all over the world that it can break down their computers from many aspects and the security tools cannot eradicate it for the computer users. It is a kind of Trojan virus that can disable the security system including the anti-virus program and firewall. Under this bad circumstance, the infected computers can be attacked by more computer viruses and malware from the World Wide Web as the infected systems are totally compromised. The performance of the infected computer can be slowed down as the Trojan can always be activated on the background whenever the computer is on. In the mean while, user will get a lot of troubles on the infected machine during the use.

Win32/Kryptik.CVRX can be usually spread on the Internet by cyber criminals as the web can be the most easy and fast way to hide this infection. Those bad guys can attack many websites and make them for their own use. Once websites get hackers, cyber criminals can edit the malicious scripts into the web pages and put the Trojan file into the servers of those websites. That means those websites can be the accomplices for this infection. When people come to visit the corrupted pages, their computers can be targets by this infection immediately. This Trojan can attack the loopholes of the visiting computers and infiltrate them silently. Users will never notice its invasion until their machines perform weirdly. Except coming from the Internet, this Trojan can also come with other programs, that is to say, cyber hackers can take advantage of other programs and implant this Trojan into them to spread.

As soon as this Win32/Kryptik.CVRX comes to victims’ computers, it can start its vicious work right away. It can modify the system registry so that it can be activated from the startup. Also it can corrupt system files to avoid being detected by security tools. It can spread itself to many locations on the affected computers which can cause fatal problems to the whole system. The infection computers can slower and slower as this Trojan can produce tons of junk files on the hard drive.

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/Kryptik.CVRX 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

Win32/Kryptik.CVRX is a Trojan horse infection that aims on Windows machines. It can usually sneak into the target computers via the Internet and many other ways. Users can hardly get rid of it by using auto-removal tools as this Trojan can disable them once it comes to the infected machines. In order to remove this noxious virus, users should find a manual way to get it done as it can hide deeply on the infected machines.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on February 9, 2015 11:40 pm

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