Remove Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria From PC

Easy Steps To Delete Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria

Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria is a high-risk computer virus that is used to steal personal and other type of information and to spread other cyber threats. As soon as this nasty trojan penetrates your device, it starts performing evil activities in the background and wreaks havoc onto the machine. It records victims’ keystrokes and tracks data. It gathers information such as login/passwords of emails, social sites etc., credit card details and so on. These details are then sold to vicious hackers who can misuse them for generating illicit revenues that might lead to huge financial loss for you.

Depth Analysis of Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria:

Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria makes vicious entries in Windows registries and alters its default settings which allows the virus to remain persistent and get automatically activated with each PC startup. It ruins vital system files which assure efficient computer functioning and prevents many running apps as well as drivers from working in an appropriate manner. Due to this trojan, you may have to deal with several other precarious issues such as application malfunctioning, boot errors, data loss, hard drive crash, software failure and so on.

Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria deactivates all the running security measures and Windows Firewalls and makes the system vulnerable for more notorious parasites. It allows other online infections such as rootkits, adware, worms, spyware and even deadly ransomware to enter your PC as well and cause more damages inside. Nothing can be worse than the situation if this perilous trojan could manage to bring a ransomware in your machine. These types of computer viruses lock users’ essential files and then extort huge amount of ransom money from them.

Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria mines digital currencies like Monero and BitCoins by consuming enormous amount of memory resources. However, it downgrades the overall PC performance severely and causes the machine to respond slower than ever before and take more than usual time to complete any task. It displays endless amount of intrusive ads and pop-ups on your system screen and interrupts your web sessions badly. These ads might look very attractive but can be very risky for system’s security as they might contain vicious links and redirect you to potentially infectious sites filled with malicious contents. And therefore, a quick Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria removal is highly required.

Summarize Information

Name– Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria

Category– Trojan, password-stealing virus, spyware

Description– Steals users’ personal and sensitive data for generating revenues and for other deceptive purposes, enables remote hacker to get access to the infected machine and perform malicious activities in the background, drops more parasites in the machine and turn the system into a malware-hub.

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

Penetration of Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria:

Malspam campaign is the main distribution technique of trojan viruses. Cyber criminals send thousands of phishing emails that pretend to be from some reputable companies or institutions. However, these mails contain spiteful attachments which when opened, executed, or run, lead to the virus intrusion.

The malicious file can be in multiple formats such as executable or archive files, MS Office or PDF documents, and so on. So, it is highly important to be very cautious while opening emails that give a concerning look or you were not expected to get. First check their legitimacy and only if they look legitimate, open them otherwise ignore such mails. In case your system is already infected with this trojan, you must remove Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria from the machine as early as possible.

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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria:

Remove the related items of Trojan-Spy.Win32.AveMaria 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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria 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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria) 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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria 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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria 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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria 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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria 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-Spy.Win32.AveMaria (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.