Remove TowerTilt - How to remove the TowerTilt?

AVG Anti-virus picked up a TowerTilt 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 TowerTilt?

TowerTilt 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, TowerTilt 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, TowerTilt Trojan horse begins to download some potential unwanted programs into the infected PC unauthorized. Those PUP programs introduced by TowerTilt 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 TowerTilt Trojan horse. In addiction, TowerTilt Trojan horse chisels up many back-doors in the background without computer users' knowledge. The loopholes that created by TowerTilt 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. TowerTilt 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 TowerTilt virus as early as possible so as to save your computer and protect your legitimate rights and interests.

How to Prevent TowerTilt? The precautions offered here are made according to the way TowerTilt spreads. Take a glance at the below list to make yourself informed: Install and regularly update genuine and powerful anti-virus programs, Firewall and programs providing Internet security aids. Run computer-friendly applications to repair bugs and errors. No visit to unknown websites and no casual trial of the latest products before careful examination. Never accept suspicious files through instant messages. Set the Security Level of instant chat tools as high. Use “Custom” installation method when installing a third-party program. Seldom use freeware/ shareware. Download and update programs from official web sites rather than random messages pop up from nowhere. 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 TowerTilt and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to TowerTilt 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 TowerTilt.

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 TowerTilt from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

As we mentioned above, TowerTilt becomes a great threat to your computer as it exploit your system vulnerabilities to cause system crash, startup failure and freezing problems easily. It takes over your system and takes every chance to invade your system, files and programs terribly along with additional computer threats. To make you further annoyed, the Trojan makes chaos to your web browser, especially it redirects your specified websites to unwanted content and changes your desktop image and favorite settings randomly. Unfortunately, this Trojan horse disables your security protection to prevent it from taking effective, and that is why your security applications fail to catch the Trojan horse entirely. Thus, manual removal is the best way to deal with the Trojan entirely.