Detailed Cerber Description
Cerber is a new computer Trojan horse that aims to invade your computer and collect your important information. It is released and spread all over the world via Internet. Very often, this Trojan horse is embedded into porn websites and fishing websites. If you unintentionally visit these websites, the Trojan can be downloaded automatically on your PC without any notification. Apart from that, it may also access your computer through malicious programs or adware.
After getting installed, Cerber first injects some malicious registry entries into the Windows registry to ensure an automatic running when Windows starts. After that, it will make your computer shut down or restart, which causes damages to the hard drive. The computer Trojan horse also generates Blue Screen of Death error messages which are one of the main reasons for undesirable data loss. As a Trojan horse, it can quietly stay in the background of system and wait for chances to attack system vulnerabilities. Once the system has been controlled by Cerber, the computer performance may not decrease unexpectedly so that you won’t be wary of the malware. However, as time goes by, the Trojan may download more and more unnecessary or unknown programs or files on the target computer, causing slower and slower PC speed. Most of them can easily result in further severe system corruption. You may find that some personal files disappear and some unknown files appear. Other cyber infections will be able to attack your compromised computer more easily after the infection. By adding spyware on your computer, the inventor of the Trojan can monitor your online activities and collect your information for illegal use. So, you can see that the information stored on your computer can be captured easily by the unknown people. What’s more, this Trojan is able to monitor users’ online activities and every behavior done on system, collect browser history and record users’ preferences. Therefore, it is necessary to remove it as early as possible. Your antivirus program may be able to detect this Trojan horse but fail to get rid of it from your computer. Getting rid of if from system is very essential. In this case, manual removal can be an effective way to deal with this problem.
The following steps guide you how to deal with the infection. If you want to avoid making any critical mistakes during the process, please try the automatic removal tool.
Why Need to Remove the Trojan Horse Immediately?
1. It gives the hackers privileged access to your computer. 2. It may cause many computer problems and end other legit processes or close programs on the target computer. 3. It downloads other malware like spyware, adware, and worm to your computer. 4. Unnoticeably record your browsing data and internet search habits.
How to Manually Remove Cerber?
Cerber is one of the recent Trojan horse spinning up on the network space. It is capable of adding more other infections to the computer and slowing down the PC performance drastically. Moreover, this Trojan horse could open a backdoor through which the remote hackers can visit your computer with ease and steal your personal information. It is so dangerous and should be erased at once. That will be an impossible hope and it’s more realistic to eliminate it manually or with a helpful tool.
Step 1: Stop the processes of the Trojan in Task Manager.
1)Open Windows Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Shift+ESC or Ctrl+Alt+Del. together.
2)Search for its running malicious processes of the Trojan, and then stop them all by clicking on “End Process” button. (The virus process can be random)
Step 2: Delete all the files associated with the Trojan.
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~random
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random “.exe”
Step 3: Get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan.
1)Press Window + R keys together. When Run pops up, type regedit into the box and click OK to launch Registry Editor.
Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER directories, find out and get rid of all the registry entries related to the Trojan immediately.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\random
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunRegedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe
Note: Please back up your computer before any file changes in case that you can restore your information and data if you make any mistake during the process.
Step 4: Restart the computer to normal mode after these steps are done.
Cerber opens a backdoor in the infected computer and cause many issues. Once it successfully obtains the information, it will establish a network connection to transmit them to remote online server which is managed by cyber hackers. It is often bundled with some unknown free programs, which helps the Trojan horse to enter a computer when you are downloading or installing these unknown programs from the Internet. Disappointingly, it affects other useful applications in system and ignores the detection of many antivirus software programs. It may not be easily removed by common antivirus program since it has rootkit technique. Otherwise, the infected computer will have to suffer great loss and serious damage.
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