Get Rid of Trojan.FakeAV Virus from PC

How dangerous Trojan.FakeAV is?

Trojan.FakeAV has been labeled as a kind of risky and stubborn Trojan horse virus, which is able to attack your PC in secret and screw up the whole system in a short time. In most cases, this malicious bug can hide in some malicious websites and some free programs and wait for you to execute it. Once Trojan.FakeAV penetrates onto your machine successfully, it is likely to corrupt your registry entries first. That’s because by doing this it can boot up automatically when you launch the machine.

Besides, as you know, the registry is very important to the whole system. So, once this place is corrupted, many system programs will be disabled. If it goes worse, you will fail to boot up the machine and even if you are lucky enough and turn on the Window successfully, you will be very disappointed by its performance. Moreover, Trojan.FakeAV will spread very quickly and drop many vicious files. Then those files will take up lots of system space, which means that the system will run extremely slow. Last but not the least, your financial details will be stolen by this bug sooner or later, as well as other important information. To sum up, you are strongly recommended to delete Trojan.FakeAV as soon as possible.

Solutions to prevent your computer from being attacked by Trojan.FakeAV

In fact, there are many ways for Trojan.FakeAV to invade a computer. As a Trojan virus, it is able to take the advantage of system loopholes to attack the compromised machine. Hence, you must update your antivirus program regularly. Through spam emails, this Trojan can enter your machine as well, when you open those spam emails. For this reason, you are not wise to open those unidentified emails. In addition, pornographic websites are the very places that Trojan.FakeAV hides inside. Therefore, visiting those sites will increase the risk of being infected. So in order to avoid Trojan.FakeAV, you should never browse on such kinds of sites.

How to Delete Trojan.FakeAV Virus Manually?

Step1. Booting the system in Safe mode with Networking

Solution: keep pressing F8 while the system is booting up. When you succeed in booting into the safe mode, you should select the Safe mode with Networking and press enter.

Step2. Terminate all processes of Trojan.FakeAV

Solution: Open Task Manager (alt+ctrl+delete). Or you can click Start menu>run>type taskmgr>press ok.

Step3. Make the hidden malicious files appear and remove all vicious files that are related to Trojan.FakeAV.

Solution: click start menu ->select control panel ->click appearance and personalization ->go to folder options ->click the view tab and select hide protected operating system files

%System Root%\Samples
%User Profile%\Local Settings\Temp

Step4. Delete all registries entries about Trojan.FakeAV

Instruction: Press Window+R at the same time, or go to Start menu and click run, then type "regedit" in the box and press ok.

Check out the following entries and remove all of them:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ Trojan.FakeAV
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ Trojan.FakeAV\SettingsMngr