How To Remove Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4

Proper Guide To Delete Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4

Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 has been identified as a hazardous computer threat by most anti-virus suites. As name suggests, it’s a pernicious Trojan virus that has been designed to be controlled remotely to perform malicious actions inside the infected device. Infection of this malware can be easily detected as its process is listed in Windows Task Manager. Once this hazardous virus infiltrates the targeted PCs, it starts executing vicious activities and causes several nasty issues in the work-station. Such types of Trojans can penetrate other malware into the system, connect the compromised devices to several botnets, gather sensitive information and so on.

Depth Analysis of Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4:

Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 can record users’ vital data such as browsing activity, saved login/passwords, geo-locations, keyboard/mouse activity etc. The collected information is misused by scammers to generate illicit profits via online purchases, deceptive money transfers, identity thefts and so on. These types of Trojan viruses can also hijack microphones and web cams to capture awkward moments (e.g., person masturbating etc.). Criminals then employ the compromising videos or pictures to blackmail the affected people. As we have already mentioned, Trojans are able to infiltrate other parasites. At most of the times, they proliferate Ransomware. These types of infections encrypt users’ important files stored inside their computers and then ask them to pay the attackers an amount of ransom to get the decryption software.

Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 makes a copy of itself under the system files in order to run automatically on Windows start-up. It alters the registry editors to be called every time the PC is started. Apart from this, this pernicious threat also drops vicious files on several folders of the infected system. It keeps operating silently in the background which consumes enormous amount of memory resources and drags down the overall PC performance severely. Your device starts behaving oddly and takes longer than usual time to complete any task. It drops malevolent files ion the infected computer which tend to lock users’ sensitive files and demand ransom from them. And hence, some security tools deemed it as a crypto-virus that causes too much destruction.

This infection drops the following files:

• C:\ProgramData\update.exe
• C:\Users\Username\AppData\LocalLow\Microsoft\Cryptnet Url Cache\Content\5CEA8CFB8047B569B331D0E79D28457D
• C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INet Cache\IE\MIPY49MB\MicrosoftSecurity[1].exe

How Does This Threat Enter Your PC?

According to reports, Trojan type viruses are mostly propagated via spam email campaigns. Cyber crooks send a number of spam emails that contain malicious attachments in forms of MS Office documents, JavaScripts files, JAR files etc. As soon as these files get opened, it silently downloads and installs Trojans. Sometimes, they are also spread via “bundling” method and fake updaters. Bundling is commonly used to install third-party programs/ malware along with regular freeware. Moreover, fake updaters infect the device by exploiting out-dated software flaws or simply downloading and installing virus instead of updates.

Tips To Avoid Installation of Trojan:

Users often get infected with such infections due to careless behaviour and poor knowledge. And hence, you need to pay close attention while surfing the web and downloading/installing/updating software. Analyze received emails carefully before opening them. Ignore them if they look suspicious or are coming from unknown email address. Furthermore, download any software from official sources only or by using direct links. Always choose Custom/Advanced settings to install the program rather than “Default” one and reject the components that look suspicious. But at the moment, just take an instant action and remove Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 from the computer.

Summarize Information

Name– Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4

Category– Trojan, password-stealing virus, spyware, banking malware

Description– Steals users’ sensitive data for adverting purpose and also to generate illicit revenues by misusing those details, Disables all the running security measures of the infected PC and drop more infections in the machine as well as help the criminals to get access to system.

Symptoms– Slowness of system’s performance, fake error messages, security alerts, intrusive ads and pop-ups, unwanted redirects to questioning sites and so on.

Distribution– Spam email campaigns, malicious file downloads, P2P file sharing, and many more.

Removal– Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

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 Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4:

Remove the related items of Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 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 Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 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 (Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4) 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 Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 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 Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 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 Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 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 Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 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 Trojan:Win32/Occamy.CA4 (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.