How To Remove Alfonso Stealer Trojan From PC

Proper Guide To Delete Alfonso Stealer

Alfonso Stealer is a data stealer that is sold online on hackers forum, and thus, cab be employed by any cyber criminals. This notorious trojan has multiple functions and can target people, companies, businesses. Once this nasty malware successfully gets into PC devices, it starts operating secretly to gather credentials, passwords etc, and run other commands depending on the attackers’ goals. There are several features which can be facilitated including stealing personal conversation data, files, credentials and other stuffs like information from internet browsers, passwords and system files.

Depth Analysis of Alfonso Stealer:

Alfonso Stealer can also steal the wallet.dat files that allow criminals to collect cryptocurrency wallets and cause huge financial losses. This notorious malware can silently gets into the PCs without being detected, run in the background for a long period until any symptoms are noticed. These facts make the virus more hazardous since it keeps performing malicious activities and is difficult to detect even with AV tools. It is not a broadly used infection, so con artists are not abusing these functions. It can create major damage still and wreck targeted devices.

Alfonso Stealer mainly focuses on stealing data and infecting devices with other malware. Users encountering any symptoms like software failure, significant system crashes, application malfunctions and excessive CPU usage should take the virus possibility into consideration and check the device immediately to get rid of the trojan. This threat may be the initial infection, but the main parasite gets installed in coming time. No matter what are its primary functions, it can damage the entire PC drastically. Alfonso Stealer can steal data from Chromium-based browsers and cookies, saved credit card and other sensitive details, passwords, autofill information.

Data collected by this precarious trojan can be sent to a remote server that is controlled by cyber crooks. Operators of this virus can infect devices with ransomware and other malware to control more parts of the machine, not only exfiltrate data. The stealer targets cookies, passwords and other essential information that can be sent to Command & Control servers of hackers. These details can help blackmail users directly, perform secondary scams or make deceptive purchases or transactions. Victims of this virus can suffer data or financial losses, experience damage to their systems and so on. And therefore, an instant Alfonso Stealer removal is strongly recommended as soon as you detect its presence.

Threat Summary

Name– Alfonso Stealer

Category– Trojan, password-stealing virus, clipper, keylogger

Description– Steals users’ personal and sensitive data for generating revenues and for other illusive purposes, drops more infections in the machine and turn it into a malware-hub, provides hackers remote access to infected devices.

Symptoms– Slowness of system’s performance, error messages, loss of personal information, infiltration of a virus, system compromise, security alerts, 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

Ways To Spread Alfonso Stealer:

Spam emails, fake software updates, unreliable downloading channels and software cracks and malicious websites can lead to the infiltration of such Trojans. Websites that look like official pages can have spiteful scripts running, so interaction, some clicks on the questionable content can trigger a direct drop of the malware payload.

The most common method that allows trojan land on the PC involves spam email campaigns and notifications stating about important messages, financial data however, including malicious files and links. These files include vicious macro functionalities, so as soon as the recipient opens a downloaded file and enables the additional content, virus get literally installed on the machine without any permissions needed.

The infection can be avoided if you don’t open suspicious-looking emails and delete received notifications with file attachments, links, or questionable subject lines. Stay away from shady software download pages and avoid any other source besides official providers and app developers. In case your PC is already infected with this trojan, you must remove Alfonso Stealer from the computer 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 Alfonso Stealer:

Remove the related items of Alfonso Stealer 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 Alfonso Stealer 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 (Alfonso Stealer) 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 Alfonso Stealer 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 Alfonso Stealer 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 Alfonso Stealer 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 Alfonso Stealer 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 Alfonso Stealer (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.

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