Remove Win32/Archost.A Virus from PC Completely

How dangerous Win32/Archost.A is?

Win32/Archost.A has been classified as a risky Trojan horse which has the ability to destroy your entire computer system. Win32/Archost.A is very tricky and it can use lots of channels to spread itself. Once it sneaks into your PC, your machine will be confronted with many dangers. First of all, through altering system settings and adding malicious codes to the registry, Win32/Archost.A disables antivirus programs and many important applications. As a result, your PC works improperly.

Secondly, it encrypts files and deletes the original versions, which makes you lose significant non-backup documents permanently. Thirdly, it creates lots of system vulnerabilities in order to help other threats get into your PC. Besides, hackers can control your computer remotely through this bug. Last but not the least, Win32/Archost.A is designed to pilfer victims private information, especially those financial data. If you don’t get rid of it timely, you may suffer from property loss and privacy exposure. In a word, in order to prevent your PC from greater damages, it is urgent for you to use updated antivirus software to remove Win32/Archost.A now.

Solutions to prevent your computer from being attacked by Win32/Archost.A

In fact, there are many ways for Win32/Archost.A 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 Win32/Archost.A hides inside. Therefore, visiting those sites will increase the risk of being infected. So in order to avoid Win32/Archost.A, you should never browse on such kinds of sites.

How to Delete Win32/Archost.A 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 Win32/Archost.A

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 Win32/Archost.A.

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 Win32/Archost.A

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\ Win32/Archost.A
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ Win32/Archost.A\SettingsMngr