How to Remove Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A, Easy Steps

Common Properties of Trojan

1. It penetrates into computer without any recognition;
2. Others horrible threats can be bundled with this virus;
3. Your personal data like bank account and passwords would be in high risk of exposure to the open;
4. It may redirect the browser to unwanted websites that contain more viruses or spywares;
5. It will degrade the computer performance significantly and crash down the system randomly.

What is Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A?

Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A is a new type of security infection that is released by cyber crooks who attempt to generate chaos on affected computer so as to perform their illegal activities. Most commonly Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A can always invade a targeted machine without user’s awareness. It may be distributed by infected email which contains links or attachments. Meanwhile, Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A infection is also prevalent on some malicious websites or other compromised websites such as P2P file sharing web pages. Another common-used way to spread Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A virus should be some “free” applications’ downloads from distrusted Internet resources.
When installed, this type of Trojan infection will immediately insert its harmful codes in system, such as the trace: C:\WINDOWS\svhost.exe, to trigger abnormal symptoms. In reality, Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A is a malicious JavaScript which has the capability to endanger Internet user’s browsing routine by technically redirecting search queries to random ones or other infected URLs that are operated by cyber criminals. Furthermore, Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A may also steal user’s confidential data and then pass it to third parties. The worse thing is, Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A threat may even open a backdoor remote hackers, allowing them to access targeted machine freely. If this is the case, your PC and privacy will be at high risk.

Manually Remove Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A Step by Step

1.    Stop the running processes of Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A in Windows Task Manager.
2.    Show hidden files of Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A.

• Click on the Start button and then on Control Panel
• Click on the Appearance and Personalization and go to Folder Options.
• Click on the View tab in the Folder Options window
• Choose the Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category. Select OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window.

3.    Find out the following files relative to Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A and then delete them all.

%Documents and Settings%\[UserName]\Application Data\[random]
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

4.    Search the following registry entries in your Registry Editor and then remove all of them.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM]”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”

Why Does Antivirus Software Cannot Help?

Many PC users may catch Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A virus with the help of their installed antivirus software programs. However, they may fail to remove Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A completely. Well, Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A is similar to many viruses released that can escape antivirus or can even prevent from scanning. Why? It’s obvious that people usually got this virus on their computers when surfing online, but when they wanted to remove it, only to find that the antivirus programs couldn't pick it up at all. This is mainly because Trojan: Win32/Alureon.gen!A hides deep in the registry entries and mutates at quick speed that is capable of blocking antivirus software. Besides, it can also infect many system files and make them become its associated files. So the manual removal will the most effective way to clean up all its components from PC.

Anyhow, manual removal requires certain PC tech skills. Any mistake may lead to worse results such as data loss or even PC crash. If you cannot handle the process alone, you are welcome to start a live chat with VilmaTech 24/7 Online Experts to help you resolve your issue safely and permanently.