How to Remove Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A

Your computer runs extremely slowly and it takes a long time to launch a program, open a World document or visit a website? You run a virus scan for the computer by the help of the antivirus program and then the scan result display problems that a dangerous parasite name Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A lurks in the deep of the system? Why does this malicious threat intrude into system without your permission and the antivirus couldn’t stop it? What do you have to do?

What Is Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A?

Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A is a baleful Trojan virus currently prowling the internet and has attacked many computers so far. Usually, the Trojan virus can invade your machine without permission when you click on unidentified links from spam emails or some famous forums or social sites, visit the websites that have been hacked or install the freeware bundled with the threat. Moreover, it can attack your computer if there are vulnerabilities on your system. Beside, it can drop additional malware, Trojan and evil plug-ins into system so that more and more infections grow crowdedly invisibly. Users should be cautious when doing any online activity.

Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A is capable of installing itself on the target machine within a short time without your knowledge. It modifies Windows Registry as well as important system settings, which allows it to be activated and continue performing malicious tasks immediately when you have the infected computer started up. Thus a comfortable environment is built up for the Trojan virus to reside in. If you cannot remove it, the computer will runs more and more slowly and you may experience further complicated system problems. It will take more time for it to start up or shut down Windows. And as time goes by, the system becomes more and more sluggish and awkward. The slow performance will make your work inefficient. Some important data are missing. Those data are still in the computer, but they are hidden by the virus and you have no way to make them show up. Even worse, cyber hackers have the ability to drop further dangerous malware into the computer via Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A, which help them to get access to the computer through the backdoor. Everything is in disorder. The Trojan is capable of bypassing the removal of the antivirus programs via disguising as an important part of the computer system. Therefore, as soon as you realize the existence of Trojan virus on your machine, please find out effective methods to remove it immediately.

The manual removal cannot be performed by everyone, especially users who are not proficient in computer. If you are not certain about the manipulation of manual method, please try automatic way to remove it.

Instructions to remove Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A manually

Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A is a highly risky Trojan virus that enters your computer without letting you know. Once you search for a desired website, the infected browser and search engine will redirect you to unwanted web pages, which will promote its related products and drop malicious codes into your system when you unintentionally click on links on the website. Furthermore, it has conflicts with many system programs. It is suggested to eliminate this malware immediately. Please follow the manual removal guide given below to remove this threat immediately.

Step 1. Change the Folder settings and show hidden files

(1). Click the Start button and go to Control Panel

(2). Click the Appearance and Personalization link

(3). Hit the Folder Options link

(4). Click the View tab in the Folder Options window

(5). Select the Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category

(6). Click OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window.

Step 2. Delete the registry entries and files created by the Trojan.

(1). Remove the related registry entries

Open registry editor by clicking “Start” menu,typing “regedit” in the “Run” box and then clicking “OK” button.

While the Registry Editor is open, search for and delete the following registry entries showed below:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

(2). Locate and delete the relevant infected files of this Trojan.

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random “.exe”


In conclusion, Trojan:Win32/Ramnit.A is a harmful system invader which is designed by cyber hackers with notorious black- hat techniques and can distribute itself around the world. If you have installed Windows operating system and you seldom care about virus invasion problems when surfing the Internet, your PC can possibly be infested by it. Once infected by the virus, the system may get crushed. Moreover, this Trojan virus collects your confidential information for the hackers who will use it for illegal purposes. For these reasons, remove the virus so that you can use your own computer safely.