Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK Virus Removal Instruction (Manual Approach)

Name of Threat: Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK
Severity: High
Affected OS: Windows XP, 7, Vista & Windows 8

Knowledge of Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK

Many AVG users currently reports a Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK threat located at c:\windows\temp\us.exe, which cannot be removed easily. The Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK virus is a newly released rookit virus created by cyber criminals to generate damage on affected system. As a rookit infection, the Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK is skilled in hiding its components deeply in system, by regularly modifying the names of its malicious files. Hence, the anti-malware tools may not be able to detect the all the files of Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK virus completely, and the Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK keeps coming back over and over again after initial removal.

Victims who are suffering from Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK may pick up the virus when they visit suspicious website that has been attacked by the developers of malware, download unreliable freeware or shareware online or open unknown attachments or links in Email that may contain the activation of Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK virus. Upon the installation of Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK, it could exploit system vulnerabilities in order for the execution of additional threats such as browser hijack virus, worms, fake antivirus application or ransomware on compromised machine. In the meantime, the Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK virus could occupy large amounts of system resource to slow down the performance of computer, while open a backdoor for remote hackers to do further harm. Hence, it is urgent to remove Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK as soon as it being found on computer. 

Why does antivirus cannot help?

Though you may remove the Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK virus once by antivirus, it may still come back again and again after removal. Your antivirus software may be still not bad. There is not any perfect antivirus that can catch all computer infections in the world. Actually, it is the problem not only for your antivirus software, but also for many other even world-leading security applications. New viruses are found daily and although all kinds of security applications have significantly improved the detection of new viruses, technology used by used by virus authors continually changes as they try to avoid detection. The malicious Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK is one of successful viruses that have the ability to escape various types of security software or even block the antivirus software.
 

Basic features of Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK

• Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK infection get into systems without any permission;
• Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK Center's reputation & rating online is terrible;
• Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK may affect and modify compromised computers' important system files;
• Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK may install other sorts of spyware/adware without computer users' knowledge.

How to Remove Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK (Manual Approach)

1.    Boot your computer into Safe Mode with Networking.

For Windows 7, XP & Vista

To perform this procedure, please restart your computer. -> As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8″ key constantly. -> Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option and then press ENTER. -> If you don’t get the Safe Mode with Networking option, please restart the computer again and keep tapping “F8″ key immediately.

For Windows 8

• Press Ctrl+Alt+Del while the PC is starting up, then Press Shift key and click ‘shut down’ icon. After that, click restart and go to the ‘Choose An Option’ screen.
• Choose ‘Troubleshoot’> ‘Advance Options’> ‘Startup settings’>‘Restart’
• Then choose ‘Enable Safe Mode with Networking’

2.    Launch the Task Manager by pressing keys “CTRL + Shift + ESC”, search for Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK processes and right-click to end them.

3.    Get rid of the following files created by Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK:

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random “.exe”

4.    Open Registry Editor (in Windows XP, go to Start Menu, run, type in “Regedit” and press OK; in Windows 7, Windows Vista& 8, go to Start menu, Search, type in “Regedit”), find out the following Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK registry entries:

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\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

Manual removal is risky and tough process requiring expertise. Not a single mistake is allowed. It is wise to have an expert taking care of this for you. Getting help from VilmaTech Online Experts is fast and safe way to get rid of Trojan Hourse Cryptic.EK virus.