How DO I Remove TR/Trash.Gen Virus?

AVG Anti-virus picked up a TR/Trash.Gen 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?

TR/Trash.Gen Virus Description

TR/Trash.Gen is a destructive Trojan horse which causes great damage to the infected operating system. Once infected, TR/Trash.Gen can affect your security programs like firewall and antivirus software. It spreads its malicious clones to other major system parts like Windows registry, Task Manager and System32 folder. Moreover, this Trojan virus communicates with the distant hackers to do constant update. So this nasty virus changes its traits to make it hard to remove. What is more, TR/Trash.Gen can introduce additional dangerous viruses including worms, spyware, adware, browser hijackers and malware. The worst is that TR/Trash.Gen can manipulate your keystrokes and online activities to collect sensitive information for its designers. That will be really dangerous for your privacy and finance. Thus, it is recommended to remove TR/Trash.Gen to protect your computer. The moment user login to their account the complete relevant information regarding the account is followed by the bug and accordingly this illegitimate bug sends all the details to its associated remote hacker system where these data are used for malevolent activity. Once user switches to this link it gets instantly installed into the system hard drive leading into harsh corruption of the essential system files. With the introduction of the threat lots of fake security pop-ups and warning messages start erupting on the user screen that keeps irritating the user. This perilous threat often interrupts the security concerned application execution on the system turning to seize the user privacy details by means of fetching the confidential data of the system.

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 TR/Trash.Gen and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to TR/Trash.Gen 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 TR/Trash.Gen.

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 TR/Trash.Gen from the list-> click on the Remove button on each line.

In summary

TR/Trash.Gen 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.