Remove Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak Effectively

Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak is a harmful Trojan horse that can bypass your antivirus program and settle down in your computer for the purpose of stealing confidential information. Most of PC users complain that they have tried removing this Trojan horse many times but still cannot wipe it out from their infected computers. If your computer is also infected by this Trojan horse, you can follow the guide provided in this post to get rid of it from your infected computer.

How Does Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak Infect Your PC?

You may wonder how this Trojan horse can break into your computer system since you have antivirus program protect it. Actually, malware like Trojan horse, spyware or adware can come bundled with low-cost or free software applications downloaded from the Internet. As a Trojan horse, Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak can also slip into your computer in this way. Apart from this, the Trojan horse can be imbedded into an email attachment and sent to you. If you download the infected attachment, the Trojan horse can slip into your computer with ease. Apart from the two ways above, it can infect your computer via malicious websites, suspicious links, social networks and removable storage devices and so forth. Therefore, you should be very careful when surfing the net and avoid bringing this Trojan horse and other threats to your computer.

The Effective Way to Remove Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak

This vicious backdoor Trojan can be removed manually. You can follow the step-by-step removal guide below to effectively remove it now. But you’d better make a backup file of your registry in case of data loss during the removal process.


1. Restart your computer after you exit all running programs.

2. During the startup process, please keep taping the F8 key constantly until the Windows menu shows up on the screen.

3. Select “Safe Mode with Networking” from the list using the arrow keys and then press Enter to proceed.


4. Open the Windows Task Manager by pressing the keys CTRL+ALT+DEL at the same time.

5. Go to “Processes” to find out the processes related to Trojan.Win32.Patcher.ak.

6. Kill all of malicious processes you have found by right-clicking them and clicking on the “End Process” option.


7. Find the location of the files as follows and delete them from your computer.


%AppData%\[random]

%Windir%\ [random numbers]

%System%\drivers\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].sys


8. Click on Start > Run and type "regedit" into the dialog box as shown below.


9. Then press Enter to open the Registry Editor.

10. Locate the registry entries related to the backdoor Trojan and delete them from your computer.



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Interface\[random numbers]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\userinit

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogo\shell=[random]

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\cookie=

11. After all steps above have been accomplished, restart your computer back to the normal mode.