How to Remove Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS

Help me please!!! I don't know how to remove Trojan Horse Generic_c.BVAS. This nearly drives me crazy. MSE keeps reporting this infection when I start up my computer. But Norton Antivirus cannot eliminate the virus from the computer permanently. AVG only gives me 2 options “Protect me” and “Ignore threat”. I click the “protect me” option, but then AVG says, “Removing of threat has failed” and it doesn’t let me ignore it. How to completely remove it?

Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS Introduction

Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS is an offensive Trojan horse that is especially designed to attack vulnerable system for users’ information and product promotion. It is released and spread all over the world via Internet. Being implanted into some fishing websites is the most common way that the Trojan infects computers. If you are not aware of the websites, it will unnoticeably infiltrate into the system without gaining user’s prior consent. Besides, it can penetrate into your computer by coming bundled with free software downloaded from trustless websites.

On finishing its installation, Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS begins to drop some malicious files into the registry entries of the target computer and self-replicates rapidly. It will write its own registry entries into Window registry and automatically change system start up settings to make a more comfortable environment for it to run. The computer Trojan horse also generates Blue Screen of Death error messages which are one of the main reasons for undesirable data loss. This Trojan horse can deeply root in your system and download malicious files or programs automatically. It is difficult for users to realize the existence of the Trojan horse because at the very beginning the infected computer's performance won’t change much. Hence, as time goes by, you will notice that the compute running speed reduces gradually because Trojan.Win32.Yakes.fvjg unnoticeably drops potentially unwanted programs into the computer. Users may be frustrated to find out their important files are missing or the private data is leaking out. You may find that some personal files are missing, and some new files with weird names appear. Some other types of computer infections are capable of get inside into the system easily and lead to disastrous consequences. Not before too long they will regret for what they had done. In extreme cases, users may experiences unexpected scenarios such as system crash, screen freeze or blue screen of death. This Trojan is like a time bomb to your system. Then, it will send the useful financial data, users’ interests and confidential information to the remote hacker for malicious purposes. In general, antivirus program can list it on the system scan reports and cannot eliminate it from your computer permanently. In order to escape from detection, this Trojan horse will change the locations and names of its files randomly. In this case, manual removal can be an effective way to deal with this problem.

What Will Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS Do On Your Computer?

1. It furtively opens a backdoor which enables the remote hackers to gain unauthorized access to your computer.
2. It causes various system problems such as blue screen of death.
3. It can redirect you to malicious websites and download other infections to further compromise your PC.
4. It collects your personal information and valuable data for the hackers.

Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS Manual Removal Instructions:

Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS is so invasive that it can cause undesired financial and information loss. It is capable of adding more other infections to the computer and slowing down the PC performance drastically. Moreover, it enables hackers to break into the computer and steal your personal information. Hence, we highly recommend that you remove this nasty Trojan horse from your computer as soon as possible. Follow the steps below and you can get rid of this infection effectively.

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.

Trojan Horse Agent_r.ATS opens a backdoor in the infected computer and cause many issues. It changes the default settings of homepage or favorite bookmarks to its commercial web page. This Trojan horse usually comes bundled with freeware or shareware, that is to say, it is likely to get into your computer when you download free software from unsafe sources. Furthermore, you should be aware of spam email bundle and hacked web pages such as sites promoting rogue programs and pornography for they are usually utilized by cyber hackers to store. It may not be easily removed by common antivirus program since it has rootkit technique. Otherwise, the infected computer will have to suffer great loss and serious damage.