Friday, July 11, 2014

How DO I Remove the Trojan.Vikadclick Virus?

It seems that my laptop has been infected a Trojan.Vikadclick Virus. The scanning report of AVG says it's in my disc c somewhere. I followed the path and found the file but can't remove it. After I removed it then went back to that folder, I still found the virus and my anti-virus still kept opening that report to me and showed me the virus. How can I remove it if my AVG doesn't work?

Trojan.Vikadclick Virus Description

Malicious as Trojan.Vikadclick is, it should be categorized into the Trojan horse family which is quite capable to make the whole affected system unavailable. It's the existence of such a tricky infection that has smashed a great many computers so far and makes itself advanced and sophisticated to bypass the removal of various security software. In general, the virus glues its corrupted codes on spam email attachments and pornographic websites that share pirated version of software. Also, it is possible to get caught by Trojan.Vikadclick when you're keen on downloading some free application from unknown resources. No doubts that we should pay more attention while using some distrustful online resource. Usually this Trojan.Vikadclick can target all the windows based system like Windows Xp/Vista/7/8.With this Trojan.Vikadclick on your computer, it may block your legit programs from running and you keep getting the error message. Besides, it can operate on your computer backdoor to monitor your online traces or may steal your personal information to report the remote server, which will put your personal information in danger. What’s more,it may also trigger ads problem to interfere with your browsing activities. On the other hand, it can use the rookit technology to hook deep into your system to disguise its related files.

Problems Seen Due to Presence Of This Application

It redirects the Google and Yahoo search results. Desktop background image is changed due to presence of this application. It changes the browser home page settings. It is responsible for shutting down of system, slow internet performance, time taking in opening the program etc. Due to presence of this application numerous unnecessary pop ups related to this application are displayed in the computer screen. Windows registry settings are changed due to presence of this application. If you identify any of the above problems in the system then it is sure that PC is infected. In such case you need to remove this application permanently from your PC in order to safeguard your system. As in case this application is not removed from the PC then it may lead to cause severe damage. In fact it may also cause complete system crash. 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 Trojan.Vikadclick and then remove all of them.
5. Delete all add-ons related to Trojan.Vikadclick 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 Trojan.Vikadclick.
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 Trojan.Vikadclick from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

In a word, Trojan.Vikadclick is a risky Trojan virus that is really harmful to the computer system. It makes your computer perform slowly like a snail. The cyber criminals can collect your privacy for profitable or even illegal use. However, it is hiding deep in the system and is able to regenerate itself to escape from the removal of antivirus programs. You shall remove it manually as quickly as possible before more damages and losses.

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