What is Infostealer.Hawket?
Infostealer.Hawket is classified as the Trojan horse infection which is first reported by MSE antivirus and target all the windows based system like windows XP, windows 7, windows vista, windows 8, etc. as we all know, Infostealer.Hawket is designed by cyber criminals to perform malicious activities on your computer and generate profit. What it can do on your computer? keep it longer, some computer users would find that their computers are running slower and slower than before and it will block you from accessing your legit program. On the other hand, it will monitor your online activities or block you from viewing the specific websites and take up your precious system resource.
Many computer users have tried to remove it but it just keeps coming back again and again. Why it is so hard to remove? Infostealer.Hawket has used the rookit technology to hook deep into your system and bundle with the kernel part of system to avoid antivirus automatic removal. Besides, it will add its registries to the startup items to make itself automatic run every time you launch your computer. What’s more, control panel or task manager also cannot help to remove Infostealer.Hawket, it will disguise its related files. Usually computer users can get infected by Infostealer.Hawket via free software downloads or online games downloads, clicking malicious pop up ads or unknown attachments, sharing malicious files with other users online. It is not safe to live with this Infostealer.Hawket, we should remove it ASAP before it cause further damage on your computer.
What Will Infostealer.Hawket Do on Computer?
Infostealer.Hawket will make computer system vulnerable, and all these things are used to scared computer users.
Your computer is acting super slow. This is because Infostealer.Hawket slows down your system constantly. It may be able to shut down your computer and restart it as well.
Infostealer.Hawket may keep redirecting your internet connection and lead you to some malicious even other illegal websites.
What’s worse, you may not be able to use any legit programs on your computer, they will be disabled by this Infostealer.Hawket. You can see the pop ups windows and you can do nothing to it.
How to Remove Infostealer.Hawket From Your PC?
Infostealer.Hawket is a hazardous Trojan that will damage your computer system, violate your privacy and cause many other problems. Once it is detected on your computer, you have to remove it as soon as possible. You can follow the instructions below to get rid of this threat.
Method 1: Automatically Remove Infostealer.Hawket by Using SpyHunter.
Method 2: Manually Remove Infostealer.Hawket by Following the Steps Below.
METHOD 1: AUTOMATICALLY REMOVE Infostealer.Hawket BY USING SPYHUNTER.
SpyHunter is a professional and powerful malware removal tool, which is able to detect and delete various kinds of threat from your computer without damage. It can deeply scan your whole system and remove all the detected threats automatically within just a few minutes. Please follow the steps below to install in on your PC and use it to remove the threat.
Step 1: Click the button below to download SpyHunter on your computer.
Step 2: Right click on the icon of SpyHunter and select “run” from the menu. Click on the run button if the system prompts a window asking whether you want to run the program or not.
Step 3: Tick I accept the license agreement and then click Next. Then SpyHunter will be installed on your computer automatically.
Step 4: Click Finish when you see the below window.
Step 5: After you finish the installation process, run the Spyhunter tool and click the “Malware Scan” button to perform a full scan of your computer to find out the threat.
Step 6: When the scan accomplishes, select all the detected malicious files and then click the Remove button on the right side to clean up all the detected threats. Reboot your computer to apply all changes.
METHOD 2: MANUALLY REMOVE Infostealer.Hawket BY FOLLOWING THE STEPS BELOW.
The Trojan should be deleted from your PC as soon as detected. It can damage your computer terribly and violates your privacy if you don’t get rid of it promptly. Follow the manual removal instructions to remove it if you have certain skills of the computer. It is important to back up your computer before any file changes.
Step one: Terminate the processes of the Trojan in Windows Task Manager.
1) Right-click on the taskbar (or press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys) to open Windows Task Manager.
2) Click on the Processes tab, scroll down and find out its running processes of the Trojan, and then click on “End Process” button to terminate the selected processes.
Step two: Remove the registry entries of the Trojan from Registry Editor.
1) Press Windows + R keys and input regedit into the Run box, and then click OK to start Registry Editor.
2) When Registry Editor opens, search for and remove all the registry entries of the Trojan. Back up your registry in order to instantly restore your information if you operate mistakenly.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Random’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
Step three: Delete show hidden files and folders of the Trojan.
1) Launch Control Panel from Start menu and click on Folder Options.
2) Under the View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and non-check Hide protected operation system files (Recommended). Then click on OK.
3) Delete all the files associated with the Trojan from your computer as follows:
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
Step four: Please restart your computer normally to ensure all changes take effect as soon as you finish all the steps above.
Conclusion
Infostealer.Hawket is similar to other Trojans that is created to acquire illegal profits via messing up computer systems and web browsers. It is able to lurk into your computer without any permission or knowledge. Once being installed, it will definitely damage your computer to collect important data from the compromised PC system. It will also allow cyber criminals to access or even control your computer remotely to carry out further actions. Besides, problems like blue screen, slow PC performance, system crashes will happen time to time. What is worse, the real aim of the Trojan is to screw up your computer and then steal valuable information from the infected PC. To protect your computer and privacy, it is better to take measures to remove this threat out of your PC as efficiently and quickly as possible.
Attention: You are not suggested to remove the Trojan by manual, even though experienced computer users would rather user professional removal tool to totally uninstall Infostealer.Hawket, that’s because any mistakes during the processes will lead to irreparable system damage for computer. To keep PC clean and your privacy safe, you had better download SpyHunter on your computer and start it to automatically fulfill the removal.