How To Remove Baldur Email Virus From PC

Baldur Email Virus: Simple Uninstall Guide

Baldur Email Virus is a perilous computer infection that is spread via phishing emails. In a mass-scale operation, cyber criminals send thousands of deceptive mails that are disguised as purchase orders. Nonetheless, their only objective is to infect recipients’ PCs with the Agent Tesla virus. It’s a remote access trojan (RAT) that provides cyber criminals remote access and control over the compromised systems. This kind of trojan viruses are capable of causing several hazardous issues onto the infected devices such as hard drive crash, software failure, application malfunctioning, boot errors, data loss, and so forth.

More About Baldur Email Virus:

Recipients of “Baldur Email Virus” letters are requested to provide a price quotation for the attached purchase order. The letters include two attachments; one is a 7z file that supposedly has the order details archived attached to it, and the other is a PDF document containing the fraudulent company’s logo. However, when users open the archive file and run the virulent executable, it leads to the download and installation of Agent Tesla virus.

The Baldur Email Virus can implement multiple commands and functions on the PCs, however, its main characteristic is data stealing. It has keylogging capabilities and can record keystrokes. The threat can extract data from download managers, multiple browsers, as well as email, VPN, messaging, and FTP clients. Information targeted by this parasite includes: online account usernames and passwords, personally identifiable information, credit card numbers, banking account details, and so on. Your sensitive data can be misused by con artists for making fraudulent transactions, unauthorized purchases, and creating personalized scams.

Baldur Email Virus can collect browsing-related details as well such as entered search queries, IP addresses, geolocations, sites visited, pages viewed, etc. Afterwards, the gathered data is shared with commercial content creators who utilize those details to customize advertisements tailored to users’ interests. And thus, this perilous infection can be also responsible for the appearance of annoying ads which severely diminish online experience. Moreover, these adverts may redirect you to potentially insecure sites containing malware, PUPs, tech support scams, porn, and other malevolent contents.

This hazardous trojan keeps performing evil deeds in the background all the time which consume too much amount of memory resources and drag down the overall PC performance severely. Thus, presence of Agent Tesla in your work-station may result in system infections, severe privacy issues, identity theft, and huge financial losses. So, an instant Baldur Email Virus removal is expressly advised.

How Does This Trojan Intrude Your Device?

As stated earlier, this notorious RAT is generally distributed via deceptive emails sent by con artists in a malspam campaign. These phishing mails have vicious files attached to them which once executed, triggers the installation of the malware. At different occasions, the malicious files could be in different forms, e.g., JavaScript, executables (.exe, .run, etc.), archives (RAR, ZIP, 7z, etc.), Microsoft Office and PDF documents, and so on.

Emails used to proliferate such infections are often presented as ‘important’, ‘urgent’, ‘crucial’, or similar in order to deceive recipients into downloading and opening the attached spiteful file. So, whenever you are sent an email that was not expected or look suspicious, be alert. First scan its attachment using a reputable anti-malware tool and if anything suspicious detected, ignore it and delete the mail. But at the moment, you must remove Baldur Email Virus from the PC without wasting any time.

Text Presented In The Scam Letters:

Subject: First Order from Baldur with (BUSINESS CARD)

Hello,

The same business card that I shared in the attachment will be made with the new logo of Baldur which is our new company name, I shared in the attachment.

Could you please send the draft for price quotation for attached Order?

Thanks in advance

Best regards / Best Regards / Kind regards

Hande Esen

Purchasing Responsible / Purchasing Responsible / Responsable de Compras

BALDUR SUSPENSION PRODUCTION IND. VE TİC. Inc.

Sekerpinar Mah. Tepe Sok. No: 1 Cayirova / Kocaeli

Tel: +90 262 658 12 41-42-43-44

Fax: +90 262 658 12 15

Email: [email protected]

Before printing this e-mail, think carefully if it is necessary to do so: The environment is everyone’s business.

The information contained in this message is confidential and is directed exclusively to its recipient, its partial or total disclosure being prohibited. If you are not the designated recipient of this message, we inform you that its reading, copying and use are prohibited. In case of news received this message by mistake, we ask you to communicate it as soon as possible to the sender and proceed to its total destruction.

This message contains confidential information exclusively addressed to the designated recipient, and any disclosure of this message, whether partial or total, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, we inform you that the reading, copying and use of this message is prohibited. In such case, please notify the sender immediately and proceed to destroy the message entirely.

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 Baldur Email Virus:

Remove the related items of Baldur 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 Baldur 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 (Baldur 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 Baldur 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 Baldur 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 Baldur 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 Baldur 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 Baldur 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.