How to Remove Trojan:Win32/Peaac Completely From Your PC

My computer was unluckily infected by Trojan:Win32/Peaac two days ago. It’s hard to be deleted although my AVG found it. I have tried several ways to remove this threat, but it turned out to be a failure. Then, I asked one of my friends, who is good at computer, to resolve the problem, but still failed. I find this threat after restarting my computer. I have runing out of ideas how to cope with this Trojan. Anyone helps me to get rid of Trojan:Win32/Peaac from my computer?

Trojan:Win32/Peaac Description:

Trojan:Win32/Peaac is categorized as a Trojan horse that infects users’ PCs in an aggressive ways. This tricky Trojan horse often slips into a targeted computer by coming bundled with some freeware or shareware. Lots of Trojan horses enable the original icon of free software to become a very seductive file name and a similar double suffix such as TXT.EXE, JPG.EXE in order to succeed in seducing users to run a Trojan. Similarly, this Trojan horse Trojan horse will disguise itself as a legit part of the operating system by using a misleading file name. You tend to mistakenly consider it as a picture or a document and run it in the end. People cannot verify the malware’s trait. It may drops harmful codes to your registry to corrupt your system severely. The bad-man tries to guarantee the Trojan horse fully invading the target system through a variety of ways to finish disguise actions. Basically speaking, users will use an antivirus program to scan their computers. Since antivirus detection depends on the feature code in a program, hackers will inject legal code into the Trojan horse in order to escape from detection and removal by common antivirus program.
Trojan:Win32/Peaac is designed to monitor user’ activities on the infected computer and steal his confidential information like online banking account usernames and passwords. The hacker just wants to spy out other people’s privacy or make pranks when wring and spreading a Trojan horse in the past. These days, Trojan horses have been a tool used to steal the victims’ personal information for the purpose of gaining illegal profits. When you surf the Internet, it pops up numerous advertisements, error messages and fake alters on your screen out of nowhere. It can generate further dangerous problems on your computer if you fail to remove it immediately.

Please note that the instructions provided below requires proficient computer knowledge and skills. If you are not good at computer and worry that you would make any serious mistake during the removal process, then we suggest that you use an automatic removal instead.

How dangerous is Trojan:Win32/Peaac?

1. It secretly opens a backdoor which allows the remote hackers to gain access to the infected computer.
2. It can make the system corrupted and destroy your executable programs.
3. It also brings some other threats including malware, adware parasites and spyware into your computer.
4. Get your browse habits and online activities with commercial purposes.

How to Remove Trojan:Win32/Peaac from the Infected Computer

Trojan:Win32/Peaac has been known as a highly risky Trojan horse that stealthily installs in your computer. It causes various computer problems and brings more threats to compromise your system. Carefully treat each step during the process. You may have to eliminate it immediately. Comply with the manual instruction below to make it gone immediately.

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.

Conclusion

It is obvious that Trojan:Win32/Peaac is a highly risky computer infection. As we have notified before, Trojan virus usually acts like a harmless component which seems to be only a part of the system, but actually it is a type of cyber threat that can perform multiple malicious tasks. The result of Trojan infection means you are annoyed by those bad situations such as slow reaction, hard disk are reading and writing constantly, no response from mouse or keyboard and windows are suddenly closed without hints. Some self-proclaimed IT gurus attempt to get rid of the Trojan by hand, but it is not advised to every one. The system settings will be modified by the Trojan horse without knowledge and many annoying pop ups will be displayed constantly. This Trojan is so clever to avoid being removed by dodging in the secret place of system. The best choice to remove impure threat should be in the manual method.