Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak Introduction
Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak is a Trojan horse recently detected by some reputable antivirus programs like Eset NOD32, McAfee VirusScan and Norton AntiVirus. It is designed to mess up the target computers and infect other machines around the world through the Internet. It poses various computer threats. The Trojan virus is able to disguise itself as a part of Windows files and make it difficult for security tools to remove it. In addition, it will keep serving unwanted pop up ads and notifications to seduce users to click them, which is very annoying. In many cases, if the Trojan stay long in your computer and can’t be removed in time, the performance of your computer will gradually and drastically delince.
Generally, if you browse websites that contain a lot of pop up ads, such as porn websites, Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak can slip into your computer by exploiting the system loopholes. Also, this virus can come from other infected program. To reduce the chances of being infected, you’d better pay more attention when downloading programs or files from the Internet. The Trojan can automatically run once logging into system and it takes up valuable system resources and space. In this way, it can disable some programs (especially the antivirus program) and stick to the system. Unexpected Blue Screen of Death error messages, abrupt system shutdown and undesirably automatic restart will completely mess up the system and result in crucial system file corruption. The Trojan can connect to remote severs and download more other Trojans, browser hijackers and spyware and so on to further compromise your computer. What is worse, the Trojan horse disables some crucial system processes forcibly. They can scan all the information on the computer to get information that may be useful for them. To remove this virus, delete all virus related files. The problem is the manual removal process requires professional knowledge.
The manual removal instructions in this post are suitable for the advanced computer users. If you are a computer newbie, use a professional removal tool instead.
How dangerous is the virus?
1. Your system performance will be dragged down. 2. You will experience disconnections to Internet and malfunction of many executable program applications frequently. 3. More additional cyber infections are downloaded and installed on the PC due to the Trojan. 4. Your browser history and sensitive information will be exposed to cyber-criminals and thus financial losses will be generated.
How to manually eliminate Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak?
Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak is so aggressive that should be removed as soon as possible. It will reduce system performance and obtain access to the malware outside to get into the system. Beyond that, the Trojan is utilized by hackers to break into your computer and do whatever they want. You may have to eradicate it immediately. Follow the steps below to manually get rid of this nasty Trojan horse.
Step one: Boot up your computer in safe mode.
1) Restart your affected computer and hit F8 key multiple times before Windows Advanced Options Menu starts.
2) Use the up and down arrow keys to navigate the "Safe Mode with Networking" option when the Windows starts. And then hit Enter key to process.
Step two: Eliminate show hidden files and folders.
Open Control Panel from Start menu and go to Folder Options.
Under View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and non-check Hide protected operation system files (Recommended). Finally, click OK.
Search for and eliminate all the following files created by the Trojan from your PC.
%AllUsersProfile%\[random]
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\[random]
%AppData%\Local\[random].exe
Step three: Kill the process related to the Trojan in Windows Task Manager.
Right-click on the taskbar (or press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys together) to start Windows Task Manager.
Navigate to the Processes tab, search for its running processes of the Trojan and then kill them by clicking on “End Process” button.
Step four: Remove the registry entries of the Trojan.
Press Windows + R keys and input regedit into the box and then click OK to open Registry Editor.
When Registry Editor opens, search for and remove all the registry entries of the Trojan. You’d better make a backup of your registry in case of data loss.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Random’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
Step five: After all the steps are done, please reboot your computer normally to apply all changes.
Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak has infected numerous computers. It may bring about many serious issues to the infected computer. Many computer users won’t realize the existence of this Trojan virus until antivirus software reports it. In fact, the Trojan can arrive on the computer in different ways. If the user visits hacked websites, opens files or programs contained in a junk email, or clicks on the malicious links posted at forums by the hackers, they are likely to download and install the Trojan horse unwittingly. Having this threat on the computer could mean that you allow the remote hackers to control your computer. All the data stored locally may be viewed and stolen by them. Thus, you shall remove it from your computer as quickly as possible.
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