How To Remove Anubis Trojan From PC

Complete Guideline To Delete Anubis

Anubis is a precarious malware infection known as information stealer. This nasty piece of software is employed by vicious cyber actors to steal information such as user IDs, passwords saved on internet browsers, credit card details, cryptocurrency wallets and so on. It can be purchased on a hacker forum at costs starts from $100. It usually infiltrates the targeted computer secretly without users’ approval and then starts performing malicious activities in the background. Due to the presence of this hazardous trojan in your computer, you may have to deal with various spiteful issues like data loss, identity theft, frequent system crash, hard drive failure, boot errors, application malfunctioning and so on.

Depth Analysis of Anubis:

Anubis has been specially designed by criminals to steal users’ sensitive information like banking-related, social media, email, file accounts etc. and misuse those stuffs for evil motives. The gathered data can be misused for fraudulent transactions, deceptive purchases, phishing emails, spread malspam, accessing important file, documents etc. This hazardous trojan can also steal browser cookies. The stolen cookies might be installed by hackers with hashed passwords on their browsers that helps them to access multiple accounts without even having to log into them.

There are many features that can be enabled by Anubis including stealing files, credentials, personal conversation data, and other things like passwords, information from web browsers, and system files. It can even steal the wallet.dat files that allow criminals to gather cryptocurrency wallets and lead to major financial losses. This perilous virus can silently infiltrate the device and bypass detection, run in the background for a while until symptoms are noticed.

These facts make Anubis virus even more deadly since it operates and is hard to detect even with anti virus suites. This nasty malware can create significant damage and wreck the compromised devices. If you encounter any symptoms like CPU usage, software failure, application malfunctions and regular system crashes should take the parasite into consideration and check the machine immediately. It can steal information from browsers and data like passwords, autofill information, saved credit card and other sensitive details can be sent to a remote server that hackers control. And therefore, you must perform an instant Anubis removal from the work-station.

Quick Glance

Name– Anubis

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

Description– Steals users’ important data for advertising motives and also to generate illicit income for the creators by misusing those details, Deactivates all the running security services of the infected device and drop more parasites 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

How Does This Trojan Enter Your PC?

Most of the times, these info-stealer Trojans are spread through malspam campaigns, unreliable software download channels, fake software updaters and unofficial activation (‘cracking’) tools. When you open a vicious email attachment or download a file via malevolent link, you are tricked into installing virus via malspam campaign. These malicious files are in several formats like archive file (RAR, ZIP), Microsoft Office or PDF document, executable file (like .exe), or JavaScript file. Malspam campaigns are often disguised as official, vital letters sent from legitimate companies, organizations.

Tips To Avoid Such Attacks:

To prevent this, you should not to open files attached to irrelevant emails, avoid clicking on links attached to them. Especially, if such emails are received from unknown, suspicious senders as they are commonly sent by cyber hackers. Also, it is common that they camouflage their emails as important, official. Moreover, you should download any software or file from official and reliable websites, and via direct links only. Peer-to-Peer networks, Third party downloaders, and other untrustworthy sources should not be used. In addition, software must be updated and/or activated only with tools (and/or implemented functions) that are designed (provided) by its official developers. But at the moment, you must remove Anubis from the machine without wasting any time.

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 Anubis:

Remove the related items of Anubis 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 Anubis 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 (Anubis) 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 Anubis 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 Anubis 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 Anubis 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 Anubis 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 Anubis (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.