How to remove EliteStealer

EliteStealer Trojan designed to steal your sensitive data

EliteStealer is very dangerous malware categorized as Trojan horse virus. This dubious malware is designed to collect your personal or sensitive data stored in your computer on or browser. It also infects your computer with other harmful malware and makes several legitimate functions or applications inaccessible. So, if ‘Windows Defender’ or other antivirus software installed in your computer detects this threat, then you should try to remove EliteStealer as soon possible.

This nasty Trojan attempts to extract data from browsers and other installed applications. They cans collect your username & password of your various accounts saved on your browser, internet cookies, browser history, URL visited, search queries, and more details. EliteStealer targets other applications installed in your device including email clients, VPN software, messengers and other software. In other words, this malware corrupts or misleads all applications installed in your computer for malicious purposes.

This dubious Trojan malware is also capable to taking screenshots, recording your keyboard input, copying the clipboard data, record video of your System’s activities and more details. It means they can watch your System’s activities and make a video of you activities. EliteStealer is not safe for your online privacy & System security. However, these collected data can be shared with other attackers or third parties to generate some income from them.

For example, once they gain access to collect your some sensitive/compromising content on your System, they can misuse these data for ransom purposes. They can claim that you need to pay certain amount of ransom money otherwise, these compromise or sensitive data will be delivered in public or in your contacts. Another example can be misuse of your financial data for malicious. They can misuse your credit card details or banking details to make fraudulent purposes or transactions.

Once attackers behind EliteStealer gain access to your email account by collecting your email login credentials details, they can change the password of your email account and gain access to other associated accounts. However, they can control your all online accounts associated with your hijacked email accounts. In sort, this malware can cause serious privacy issues. So, EliteStealer malware removal is necessary.

How did you get EliteStealer Trojan Malware in computer?

Trojan or malware is distributed through spam email campaign or malspam campaign, fake software updaters, installers, and downloaders, and other third parties’ sources. Spam Email Campaign is the mostly used mechanism by cybercriminals to spread Trojans, worms, or other malware like idp.alexa.51 Trojan, Guiminer.exe Trojan and Bitcoin Mining Machine miner Trojan in your computer. They send spam emails in your mailbox which contain malicious attachments or hyperlinks. These attachments can be Microsoft Office documents, PDF, RAR, ZIP, JavaScript or other formats of files. Once opened, these attachments execute certain codes to install malware or viruses in your computer. For example, Microsoft Office documents as malicious attachments infect computer by executing malicious macro commands. So, you should be alert while surfing online and avoid opening any attachments or hyperlinks presented in spam emails.

System is infected with EliteStealer Malware: What next?

If your computer is already infected with Trojans, worms or other malware, then you can go with our automatic method of malware removal to get rid of it. This method offers you to find all threats including latest malware in computer with some powerful antivirus software, and then you can delete all detected malware with just single-click. After System scan is finished, please check if trouble is resolved or EliteStealer related malware is removed.

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 EliteStealer:

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