How DO I Remove Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b?

How to remove Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b from your computer? Unfortunately, I have this Trojan virus on my Lenovo laptop. I also searched the Internet, followed some removal guide online to help me out. But I cannot remove it completely. I am so frustrated that it keeps coming up after restart. I still cannot successfully remove the virus completely. It seems impossible to get rid of it. What can I do?

What is Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b?

Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b is a severe virus belongs to Trojan family. It penetrates into your computer with share programs or games downloaded from the Internet. It can also be installed if users click hacked web sites or spam email attachments. Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b injects its own files and registry entries into your computer, and changes the start-up items immediately once installed so that it can be activated automatically each time users boot up their computers. It corrupts system files and program files, which can explain why your computer runs weirdly once infected. The infected machine can shut down and restart randomly; blue screen problem happens from time to time; programs cannot work properly. Besides, your system runs slowly. Once Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b is installed to the infected PC, this Trojan horse will start to modify system settings and Window Registry to mess up the infected machine. It keeps taking up high system resources so that the infected computer will suffer a slow performance. Moreover, other virus infections like browser hijack redirect, rogue program and even malware will attack the infected computer as well, and that is the reason it can be one of the most dangerous virus processes on the Internet, PC users should remove this nasty Trojan horse completely to keep the infected PC safe.

How to prevent it from the PC?

In essence to prevent attack of this malware program follow the following steps: 1.Enable firewall on your computer. 2.Update your windows as well as anti-virus regularly. 3.Make limit user privileges on the computer. 4.Avoid downloading from suspicious sites. 5.Always use strong password. 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 Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b 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 Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b.

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 Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b 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 Rootkit.Boot.Cidox.b at once without any hesitation.