What is Freepcupdater.com? - How DO I Remove the Freepcupdater.com？

AVG Anti-virus picked up a Freepcupdater.com 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 Freepcupdater.com?

Freepcupdater.com is a dangerous infection which has been more and more common to computer users recently. It becomes a PC problem which thousands of users must face with every day. Because of its ability to infect computers all over the world and ability to destroy hardware component, it becomes a really pain to PC users. This is a network crime. It is designed to attack many Windows operating system including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 all over the world. In most cases, the Trojan horse virus attack goes into target computer by clicking the link which has been implanted with this virus. Some e-mail attachments and some unsafe free resources will cause this virus infection as well. It is never to be too carefully when you are on the Internet. The Internet does makes great contribution to the human beings development. But it also brings bad effects. The most popular one known to all is virus problem. As one in that field, Freepcupdater.com can significantly slows down the computer speed. That's not the only thing it does. When the users are trying to run some programs, they may get errors from time to time. The same happens when they try to open some folders on the infected machine. Also, if you are able to get a program open, it is still possible for you to get warning message from your security tools to inform you of the virus infection. With this virus inside the computer, various unwanted symptoms may be shown on computer. Your browser may keep redirecting you to other pages, and crazy and annoying pop-up window may be filled with your whole screen to interrupt your browsing activities. Besides, unknown toolbar is added on your browser and doesn't allow you to uninstall it. Therefore, it is advised users to follow the manual removal instruction to remove Freepcupdater.com as quickly as possible.

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 Freepcupdater.com and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to Freepcupdater.com 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 Freepcupdater.com.

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

Conclusion

As the above mentioned, we learn that Freepcupdater.com virus that is created by cyber hackers to corrupt your system and programs to make the targeted computer perform badly. Also, this Trojan may take every chance to take over your system and invade it aggressively out of control. After that, you may experience system crash and file missing problems. Moreover, other threats may sneak into your computer at the same time since your computer is targeted by the Trojan. What's worse? The Trojan may block your security protection to take effective. Since the antivirus software loses its functions, you'd better delete the Trojan in a manual way. To regain a clean computer, please download spyhunter.