How to remove Qel Email Virus

Qel Email Virus designed to trigger ‘Agent Tesla RAT’ Malware

Phishing/scam emails like ‘Qel Email Virus’ are used to steal sensitive or personal information including usernames & passwords, credit card details, social security numbers, etc, or trigger malicious programs or viruses. Scammers behind this type of scam use the name & LOGO of some trustworthy companies or organizations in its spam emails, which contain some false-positive messages along with suspicious hyperlinks or attachments. The text presented in such spam emails attempt to tricks you into open malicious links or attachments presented on it to install malware or viruses. In this cases, cybercriminals attempts to convince you to open attachment to deliver ‘Agent Tesla RAT’ Malware in your computer.

“Qel Email Virus Scam” uses the name of ‘Q Express Line’ company in its malspam campaign and claims this email as urgent asks you to open the attachments presented on it. The attachment presented in ‘Qel Email’ scam when opened, it initiates the infections. It has a ZIP file attached to it, which contains an executable file designed to install RAT Malware called ‘Agent Tesla Trojan’. In sort, Qel Email Virus is designed to trigger RAT (Remote Access Trojan) malware in your computer.

‘Agent Tesla RAT’ malware is used by cybercriminals to steal your various personal or sensitive data. They can use this RAT malware to monitor and control your System remotely to generate revenue in malicious ways. This way, they can gain access to your various accounts including social networks, emails, etc. These details can be used to steal your identity to borrow even more money and deliver malicious files to the people on contact lists, and distribute this RAT Malware even further.

‘Agent Tesla RAT’ Malware offers cybercriminals to record your keyboard input or keystrokes, clipboard data, record video of your System’s activities and collect more details as well. They can share these collected data with other attackers or third parties to generate some income from them. Also, this Trojan malware blocks you from accessing Task Manager, System registry and executing commands via Command Prompt. However, this malware offers other malware to infect your computer. So, it is important to find and remove Qel Email Virus related malicious files in computer as soon as possible to prevent System from further attacks.

How did you get Qel Email Virus in computer?

Scammers or cybercriminals use ‘Urgent’, ‘Official’, ‘Priority’, ‘Important’ or other similar keywords in subject/title of emails, contain some false-positive messages, use the name & LOGO of some trustworthy companies or organizations, and some suspicious hyperlinks or attachments. The purpose of attackers behind Qel Email Virus is to deliver ‘Agent Tesla RAT malware’ in your computer. They attempt to convince you to open attachment presented in this scam email to inject RAT malware. This attachment file downloads a ZIP file in your computer that contains an executable file with icon of PDF document. Once executed, it installs ‘Agent Tesla RAT’ Malware in your computer. So, you should be alert while browsing internet and avoid opening any attachments or hyperlinks presented in spam emails.

System is already infected with Qel Email Virus: What next?

If your computer is already infected with Trojans or malware, then you can go with our automatic method of malware removal to get rid of it. This method offers you to find all types of malware or viruses in computer with some powerful antivirus software, and then you can delete all detected malware with just single-click. After System scan is finished, please check if trouble is resolved or Qel Email Virus related malicious files are removed.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Qel Email Virus:

Remove the related items of Qel Email Virus using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Qel Email Virus issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Qel Email Virus) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Qel Email Virus removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Qel Email Virus still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Qel Email Virus plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Qel Email Virus removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Qel Email Virus (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.