How To Remove Erweka email virus From PC

Erweka email virus: Simple Uninstall Guide

Erweka email virus is a type of devastating computer infection that is mainly spread via spam emails. These phishing mails are sent by cyber criminals in thousands in a mass-scale operation with an aim to trick recipients into infecting their PCs with FormBook malware. Quite often, senders pretend to be legitimate companies, organizations, or other entities. However, these spam mails contain malicious attachment which once opened, triggers the installation of the aforesaid trojan virus. This perilous threat can perform several malevolent activities and cause issues like constant system crash, application malfunctioning, boot errors, software failure and so forth.

More About Erweka email virus:

Recipients of “Erweka email virus” letters are attempted to be tricked into believing that they have received a letter regarding a new purchase order. Receivers are encouraged to confirm the receipt of a purchase order- to open the attached file named “538375308232021.lzh”(may differ). The attachment is in an archive file which contains a virulent executable designed to install FormBook virus. This perilous trojan can take screenshots, record keystrokes, steal clipboard data, login credentials saved in web browsers, and so on.

Erweka email virus can gather browsing-based information like IP addresses, geolocations, sites visited, links clicked, search queries typed, etc. These details are then shared with commercial content creators and utilized for generating personalized ads. And thus, once such infection sneaks into your computer, you might be flooded with an excessive amount of intrusive advertisements all the time which severely diminish your online experience. These adverts come with redirecting ability and may throw you to potentially insecure sites containing malware, tech support scams, porn, and other spiteful material.

Further, Erweka email virus allows cyber crooks to access/control over the compromised devices and implement evil deeds inside. It can proliferate other cyber infections like ransomware and turn the machine into a malware-hub. A ransomware tends to encrypt data stored inside the infected PCs and then ask victims to pay the attackers a hefty sum of ransom for their decryption. If the FormBook malware could manage to inject such destructive parasites into your system, this could be a true nightmare to deal with. It eats up too much amount of system resources and slows down the overall PC performance drastically.  And thus, Erweka email virus removal needs to be performed immediately.

How Does This Threat Enter Your PC?

As stated earlier, this notorious trojan is generally distributed via malspam campaign during which, numerous deceptive emails are sent by cyber criminals. These phishing mails are specially designed to trick recipients into downloading and opening the attached virulent file which leads to the installation of FormBook or other similar threats. The malicious file could be in several formats, e.g., Microsoft Office or PDF document, contents of the attached ZIP, RAR or another archive file, executable file, JavaScript file, or some other file.

To prevent your computer from such malicious infections, you should avoid opening files or links attached to irrelevant emails sent from suspicious addresses. Scan the attachment first with a reliable anti-malware tool whenever you are delivered an unexpected email in your mailbox. Also, use only official and verified download sources and update/activate software using the tools provided by legitimate developers only. If your PC is already contaminated with this trojan, you must remove Erweka email virus from the device without wasting any time.

Text Presented In The Spam Letters:

Subject: NEW PURCHASE ORDER

Dear Sir/Madam

Please confirm the receipt of our purchase order and attachments immediately by email to the above address, quoting our order number.

Please advise us verbally or in writing if documents/drawings are incomplete or cannot be opened.

Have a good day and with best regards

ERWEKA

Thorsten Boettcher

Director – Business Development Asia & Middle East

Erweka Asia Pacific Ltd

A, 11/F., Man Lok Bldg.

93 Bonham Strand

Hong Kong

T: +852 2291 6300

F: +852 2291 6311

[email protected]

hxxp://www.erweka.com

Erweka Asia Pacific Ltd; Managing Director: Thorsten Bottcher; BR Reg No.:67128051-000-01-17-04

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 Erweka email virus:

Remove the related items of Erweka 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 Erweka 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 (Erweka 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 Erweka 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 Erweka 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 Erweka 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 Erweka 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 Erweka 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.