How DO I Remove Hot-finder.com？

AVG Anti-virus picked up a Hot-finder.com virus on my computer from work. It says AVG is unable to remove this file as the original file has been removed and bundled with some system files. The laptop was extremely slow and froze down once a minute. How do you handle this problem?

What is Hot-finder.com?

Hot-finder.com is a pesky computer virus that may undertake a series of malicious tasks to disturb computer users to enjoy an optimal online experience and decline the PC performance day after day in the background. Once gets into the target PC, Hot-finder.com virus may change the system settings without computer users' permission. It may modify start up entries in order to run immediately as soon as people boot the infected PC and program itself to hide deeply in the operating system. And then, Hot-finder.com Trojan horse begins to download some potential unwanted programs into the infected PC unauthorized. Those PUP programs introduced by Hot-finder.com not only take up a plenty of computer resources, but also conflict to some useful applications in the infected PC. That is the reason why some programs out of function after the presence of Hot-finder.com Trojan horse. In addiction, Hot-finder.com Trojan horse chisels up many back-doors in the background without computer users' knowledge. The loopholes that created by Hot-finder.com virus may offer a chance for other kinds of computer infections like browsers hijacker, spyware, worm, etc to invade into the compromised PC easily, also, cyber crook can take advantage of these loopholes to access to the target PC remotely. Hot-finder.com will implant other threats to the infected computer including vicious Trojan virus, adware, spyware and browser hijackers which are able to help cyber criminals break through the target computer successfully via opening a backdoor in the computer. It can run many malicious applications in the infected computer without the user’s authorization. More importantly, the terrible virus makes the computer performance become worse. Many programs in the computer are not functioning. What is worse, your personal information may be disclosed to the public by the cyber criminals, which is obviously an invasion of privacy. In this case, you should remove Hot-finder.com virus as early as possible so as to save your computer and protect your legitimate rights and interests.

How does Trojan.ransom.gend get on my computer?

Typically, it gets on your computer as video codecs which are needed to install so that you can view certain, especially porn related, videos from the internet. Besides, Trojan.ransom.gend can be distributed via: 1. Your clicking on some malicious links. 2. Your browsing the sites with bad reputation. 3. Your opening the infected email attachments. 4. Your freeware or shareware downloads. Manual Removal Guides: 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to Hot-finder.com and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to Hot-finder.com from the browsers Google Chrome Click on wrench icon-> locate Tools-> click on Extensions-> click on the bin icon or uncheck the items related to Hot-finder.com.

Internet Explorer Click Tools>select "Manage Add-ons">"search providers">set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to "search results">remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox Click on Firefox button-> click on Add-ons-> search for all the extensions of Hot-finder.com from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

Hot-finder.com is categorized as a pesky Trojan that messes up with various system settings and constantly annoys its victims. It uses many ways to provide a hacker with remote access of an infected computer. It may also monitor web-browsing activity of the user and redirect users to all kinds of ad sites against their wills. This virus is hard to be detected because it can conceal its presence of the compromised computer by showing only legitimate process running on the system. Only a few antivirus program can detect it. However, every time a user click 'Remove', they may get error message or the virus may come back after a few minutes. Such nasty Trojan has the capability to record and send computer users’ confidential information, for instance, credit card, login numbers, etc to a remote hacker. In order to protect your computer, you should remove Hot-finder.com at once without any hesitation.