Monday, May 5, 2014

Get Rid of Trojan.Zekos.Patched Virus from Your Computer

Trojan.Zekos.Patched virus is detected by your antivirus program? Do you know how this Trojan horse gets into your PC? What will you do if your antivirus fails to remove this virus? No worries, this post will solve your problems one by one.

The Characteristics of Trojan.Zekos.Patched Virus

Trojan.Zekos.Patched virus is extremely hazardous and precarious as it is able to disable your system programs and corrupt your computer performance badly. At present, many popular antivirus programs like Norton and AVG can’t quarantine this kind of precarious Trojan virus. If you don't take steps to get rid of that, your PC will suffer more attacks. In addition to breaking the part of functions of your PC, this detrimental Trojan virus also makes modifications to your system files and registries. In consequence, you can't use some programs and get error warnings. Because of the appearance of this Trojan virus, your PC runs slowly than before. That is because a number of available system resources are consumed by this Trojan.Zekos.Patched virus.

In addition, this highly risk Trojan virus blocks you from connecting to the Internet. Even though you can surf on the network, you are tormented with endless redirections and pop-ups, which suggest that the settings of DNS have been tampered with. The longer this virus stays on your PC, the more troubles you have. System crash, blue screen and a series of serious problems will be caused. Like Virus:DOS/Rovnix.gen!A, this Trojan virus has the ability to open a backdoor for cyber hackers. Under the help of this Trojan.Zekos.Patched virus, hackers can track your personal files, folders and other sensitive information. Once your data is disclosed to the Internet, you may suffer financial loss.


Manual Removal Guide of Trojan.Zekos.PatchedVirus

Step 1: Restart the computer, keep pressing F8 till the option appears, and then use arrow keys to select Safe Mode with Networking.


Step 2: End related processes of Trojan.Zekos.Patched virus. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete together to run Task Manager.

Step 3: Uninstall all suspicious programs. Click Start menu, then Control Panel, and click Programs and Features.
 

Step 4: Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.

C:\Users/Karen/AppData\Local\Temp\msi10245.exe

Step 5: Remove dropped registry files of Trojan.Zekos.Patched. Hit Win+R to activate Run, and then type “regedit” and press OK. Find unfamiliar keys and click Delete.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "" = "%AppData%\.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations "LowRiskFileTypes"=".zip;.rar;.nfo;.txt;.exe;.bat;.com;.cmd;.reg;.msi;.htm;.html;.gif;.bmp;.jpg;.avi;.mpg;.mpeg;.mov;.mp3;.m3u;.wav;"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments "SaveZoneInformation"=1


Step 6: Reboot your PC.

Tips for Protecting Your PC from Being Infected Viruses In Future

1) Don't visit illegal websites especially porno sites.
2) Don't open unknown email attachments or download unreliable free programs.
3) Please upgrade your antivirus programs to the latest version in time because some viruses can update its files quickly.