What is Trojan.Rapidstealer? - How DO I Remove the Trojan.Rapidstealer?

Do you want to remove Trojan.Rapidstealer as it is useless? Is it difficult to get rid of Trojan.Rapidstealer from Windows 7? Are you confused that you had removed Trojan.Rapidstealer from Windows Control Panel, but it was still there?

What is Trojan.Rapidstealer?

Trojan.Rapidstealer is an illegitimate application that enumerates itself to be a Spyware removal application but actually is a system threat which promoted online via several suspicious links comprising malevolent scripts embedded in it that after getting installed into the system strikes numerous fake security alerts and virus infections reports so as to compel the user to get rid of those infection by means of purchasing the full upgrades accessible online. These vulnerable applications are not to be trusted at all but somehow if found on the system it is immediately required to be removed from the system permanently so as to secure your system data from getting dumped. Once this Trojan is downloaded on the target computer, surely, the anti-virus program installed can warn the computer user that this Trojan.Rapidstealer is detected, however, it is not easy for the protection tool to remove it completely as this Trojan can spread in the computer in a very quick speed. It can divide and duplicate itself on the infected computer and hide deeply in the hard drive, also, many system related files can be corrupted by this Trojan. This Trojan can make great trouble to the infected computer. For instance, with many corrupted system files, the system can run improperly which means it will get many unwanted errors during the use. What's worse, in some situations, the computer will get black screen or even blue screen to death. This Trojan can waste much usage of CPU on the infected computer; the CPU usage can be 100% all the time which makes the computer runs slowly and it may take a large time to open programs. Except damaging the system severely, cyber hackers can use this Trojan to take control of the infected computer, once those criminals have accessed the infected computer, they can do everything they want on it and the whole process cannot be noticed by PC user. That is the worst part of this Trojan does, those crooks can collect personal information from the infected computer and use the sensitive details for crime.

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 Trojan.Rapidstealer and then remove all of them.

5. Delete all add-ons related to Trojan.Rapidstealer 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 Trojan.Rapidstealer.

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

In summary

As it is discussed, the Trojan.Rapidstealer virus does great harm to the target computer. It is designed to damage the contaminated system and pilfer important information from unknown computer users. In fact, the Trojan corrupts your computer greatly to cause system crash and computer freezing problems. It slows down the system performance and affects executable programs greatly. Most of your favorite settings are typically changed unexpectedly. As a matter of fact, many executable programs are corrupted by this Trojan to function normally, especially the anti-virus program.