Remove GameOver Zeus Virus Step by Step from PC

How dangerous GameOver Zeus is?

GameOver Zeus(also call GameOver Trojan and P2PZeuS) is a harmful Trojan which is firstly reported by MSE. Mostly, it greatly overspreads among compromised PCs via suspicious websites, various unreliable freeware or shareware, unsolicited spam emails and so on. As GameOver Zeus intrudes into targeted machines, it will block certain legit websites and redirect users’ search results to contaminated links or websites. In this way, it can unwittingly bring in lots of computer viruses like mal-ware, ad-ware and others, which leads to more unexpected damages to computers.

Besides, GameOver Zeus will gather many important system data and personal data and intangibly transfer them to remote hackers who may sit in front of a server in somewhere. Computer users may be eager to fully remove this dangerous Trojan virus. But in fact, it is not so easy to do that. Many related surveys reveal that GameOver Zeus leaves its corrupted system files on the original Registry files in order to activate itself every time the systems start up. And it hides itself so secretly and works covertly, in order not to be easily detected by antivirus software. Hence, it is suggested that manual removal might be a good solution to permanently remove GameOver Zeus from infected computers.

Solutions to prevent your computer from being attacked by GameOver Zeus

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

How to Delete GameOver Zeus 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 GameOver Zeus

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 GameOver Zeus.

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 GameOver Zeus

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\ GameOver Zeus
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ GameOver Zeus\SettingsMngr