How to remove COMpfun Trojan

Delete COMpfun Trojan from the system

COMpfun Trojan is a deadly Trojan infection. This type of malware infiltrates in without users’ consent and performs malicious activities on the system background with the main aim to cause severe damages to the device. To prevent any worst things from happening, you should perform its removal soon. Below the post, you will get the complete instruction on how to do this with an ease.

What is COMpfun Trojan?

COMpfun Trojan is a malicious malware from Trojan family.  It is used by crooks take complete control over the targeted computer to perform actions to make money from it. It provides them complete control over the device and to manage several activities form their servers remotely. This way, the crooks can manage the files and processes, log keystrokes, take screenshots, access to webcam, execute malicious commands, edit window registry and steal the stored personal and sensitive information.

Crooks have mange over the files, meaning that these people can open, edit, rename, move, delete, modify and even download the files of their choice. Such files could be of great significant as they may contain some sensitive information. The crooks can even start various malicious processes and stop the ones that are crucial for normal PC functioning. Recording of the keystrokes mean the crooks can record each key pressed, or say, steal various credentials -logins and passwords, credit card details and other sensitive information.  They can use such data to make fraudulent transactions, purchases and other illicit purposes that cost on privacy, cause monetary loss and even risk to the identity. They can take the photos, record videos using the webcam and start blackmailing the users to pay for some amount of fee in order to delete them. You should wait for such big issues from happening and must perform COMpfun Trojan removal process soon. Follow the guides provided below the post for the step by step instruction on this.

Threat Summary

Type: Trojans

Symptoms: Trojans infiltrate in by stealth and runs silently and so you cannot see any particular symptoms associated with the infection on your device

Distribution: Infected email attachments, malicious online ads, social engineering, software cracks

Danger: Stolen passwords and banking information, identity theft, and the victims’ computer can be added to botnet

Removal: Use some reputable antivirus tool to remove COMpfun Trojan

Other harmful risks associated with Trojan infection

To gain its function the full, the COMpfun Trojan conducts various malicious changes to the crucial system settings such as Window registry editors, DNS configurations and PC arrangements. This allows it to activate automatically with each OS reboot and run all the time. While running, it continues doing its malicious activities.  It has potential to disable the antivirus tools and firewall security measures installed on the device to hide its presence for a long time. It can block the users’ access to the crucial functioning on the device.  What’s the dangerous -it allows the hackers the command and control the compromised device from the remote server. This way, the hackers can inject other malicious malware and steal personal and sensitive information.  When doing such processes, the Trojan consumes the most CPU and GPU resources that have the negative impact on the general PC performances. This can lead permanent system cashes or freezes.

How did the infection occur?

Most commonly, such malware are distributed via using spam email campaigns. In this method, spam emails are designed and delivered in a campaign to trick people into believing that they are receiving some legit emails. However, such emails typically have the payload of the malware attached within a file or link, if opened- the users lead into the installation of malicious program at the end. Another common distribution channel is fake software updaters. They infect computers either by installing malicious programs instead of the updates or by exploiting bugs, flaws of outdated software that is installed on the operating system. Untrustworthy downloading channels such as p2p networks, free file hosting sites and third party downloaders or installers could be a source of malware infection. They spread malware by presenting it as legit software. At last, Software ‘cracking’ tools can cause infection by supposedly bypassing activation of various licensed software.

How to protect the device from malware infection?

You should not open attachments (and/or links) in irrelevant emails that are sent from unknown, suspicious, questionable addresses. Avoid third party downloaders, installers, unofficial pages, Peer-to-Peer networks, and other channels of this kind that are deemed as untrustworthy.  Use only official websites and direct links for any software download. Furthermore, use only those functions and/or tools that are provided by official developers for any software activation and updates.  For betterment, employ some reputable antivirus tool that prevents any malicious executables from being launched and provides adequate protection to the device.

Remove COMpfun Trojan

Manual malware removal guide is provided below in step by step manner. Follow it so that you will not find any trouble during removal process. You can use some reputable antivirus tool to automatically remove COMpfun Trojan from the system.

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 COMpfun Trojan:

Remove the related items of COMpfun Trojan 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 COMpfun Trojan 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 (COMpfun Trojan) 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 COMpfun Trojan 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 COMpfun Trojan 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 COMpfun Trojan 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 COMpfun Trojan 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 COMpfun Trojan (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.