Thursday, July 31, 2014

How to remove Adware: Win32/Fidot?

Hello. Yesterday I got a Trojan horse virus called Adware: Win32/Fidot on my Dell laptop with Win 7 Home Premium and ZoneAlarm firewall. AVG anti virus notified me but could not removed it. I tried to fix it but no luck. Is there an effective and simple way that is able to catch and remove Trojan horse Generic_r.CIW virus completely? Any help will be appreciated.

What is Adware: Win32/Fidot?

Adware: Win32/Fidot is a dangerous Trojan infection that can target on computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7/8, in a word, this Trojan infection aims on all versions of Windows OS. Mostly, this Trojan can be spread from the Internet as cyber criminals who create this Trojan also have the ability to hack into many websites which can be used to hide this virus. Those hacked websites' servers are the best place for hackers to store this Trojan as people who visit the infected websites can get infected immediately. Other free programs that can be found online can also be used to spread this Trojan, as the Trojan makers can embed this infection to those freeware as publish them to many websites to let people to download. Inexperienced computer users usually download applications from unreliable resources which can increase the chance to make their computers get infected by different kinds of viruses. Adware: Win32/Fidot virus is usually installed with share programs or games that users downloaded from the Internet, or it can also be installed if users click hacked web sites or spam email attachments. Adware: Win32/Fidot corrupts your computer as other Trojan viruses do. It opens backdoors on target system, and injects other infections, viruses or malware programs into your computer through backdoors. What is worse, it is able to connect your computer to remote servers, helping hackers accessing into your computer remotely. Your personal information stored in your computer such as business files, photos, email passwords or financial accounts may be revealed to hackers in this case. Users have to remove Trojan Win32/Sirefef.GC virus as soon as possible to protect your computer and your personal information in this case.

Why is Adware: Win32/Fidot So Hard to Remove?

This particular rogue spyware program is extremely difficult to remove due to its highly sophisticated and dynamic nature. Unlike most traditional spyware, the program places a large number of random files on your computer and can easily evade detection from basic antispyware software. In additional, manual removal is near impossible because those random files are not easily recognized as spyware yet they contain the code that enables the program to reinstall itself if you try to remove the main files and registry entries that you find. So while you think you are deleting everything associated with it, the program will simply reinstall itself when you reboot by executing code from those random files and entries. 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 Adware: Win32/Fidot and then remove all of them.
5. Delete all add-ons related to Adware: Win32/Fidot 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 Adware: Win32/Fidot.
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 Adware: Win32/Fidot from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

Adware: Win32/Fidot is a tricky virus which can avoid security scanning. It can make your computer at a great risk, particularly degrading your system performance and freezing your computer up frequently. It is an annoying virus because it pops up numerous annoying advertisements; those adware carries lots of virus that accelerates the speed of computer crash. To totally remove this Trojan horse, manual removal is considered to be the most effective method.

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