How To Remove Gen:Variant.Strictor From System

Tips To Delete Gen:Variant.Strictor From Computer

Gen:Variant.Strictor is a dangerous computer infection that is capable of infiltrating the targeted PCs secretly without users’ permission and causing several hazardous issues inside. Initially upon getting installed, this nasty trojan hides itself in the deep corner of the system so that it could not be easily detected by the scanning of anti-malware tools. After that, it starts performing evil deeds in the background and wreaks havoc onto the work-station. This notorious virus inserts tracking cookies on your web browser and constantly spies on your web activities. It steals your personal data relating to banking and other financial details and exposes them to hackers for bad intentions.

Gen:Variant.Strictor also gathers data regarding your interests, needs and other preferences which is sold to third parties who then try to tempt you into buying their products and services. It bombards your computer screen with thousands of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day and turns your Internet browsing into nightmare. This pernicious trojan redirects you to unknown web pages where numerous products and services are promoted and makes commission for the developers with each redirection. However, it is worth mentioning here that it might also lead you to phishing, scamming or even malware-laden sites that are filled with spiteful materials and cause more hazards to your work-station. So, it is necessary to remove Gen:Variant.Strictor from the PC as early as possible.

How Does Gen:Variant.Strictor Infect Your Computer:

This nasty trojan is spread through several precarious tactics by its creators. It can sneak into your device after visiting an infected web page that is filled with malicious installers, by clicking on misleading pup-up ad, opening spam emails and downloading its attachment. Additionally, downloading illegal programs and similar things can also increase the possibility of such malware attack. And hence, it is necessary to be very careful while surfing the web and avoid getting in touch with these pernicious sources to keep the machine harmless and secured. Ignore suspicious emails coming from unknown source as it may contain rogue attachment which automatically gets loaded and leads to the virus intrusion once you click on the mail.

Threat Details

Name- Gen:Variant.Strictor

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

Description- Steal users’ sensitive data for adverting purpose and also to generate illicit revenues by misusing those details, Disables all the running security measures of the infected PC and drop more infections 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

Other Harmful Features of Gen:Variant.Strictor:

Gen:Variant.Strictor has ability to deactivate all the running security measures and Windows Firewalls and open backdoors for more notorious parasites. It allows other Online infections such as rootkits, worms, adware, spyware and even deadly ransomware to sneak into your computer as well and cause more damages inside. A crypto-virus tends to encrypt users’ crucial data and then ask them to pay off for the decryption tool. If such types of Ransomware programs could manage to enter your machine, nothing can be worse than that. Gen:Variant.Strictor displays fake security warnings and error messages and tries to deceive you into installing rogue software.

This pernicious malware alters the default registry settings by making vicious entries in it which allows the threat to get automatically activated with each Window reboot. However, this act brings multiple notorious issues in the device such as boot errors, frequent system crash, hard drive failure, application malfunctioning and so on.This hazardous trojan creates tons of junk files in the hard drive of your PC which consumes enormous amount of memory resources and slows down the overall computer performance drastically. Due to this, machine starts responding in a very slow manner and takes more than usual time to complete any task. And therefore, in order to prevent all these hazards from being occurred, you must delete Gen:Variant.Strictor from the computer immediately.

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 Gen:Variant.Strictor:

Remove the related items of Gen:Variant.Strictor 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 Gen:Variant.Strictor 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 (Gen:Variant.Strictor) 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 Gen:Variant.Strictor 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 Gen:Variant.Strictor 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 Gen:Variant.Strictor 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 Gen:Variant.Strictor 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 Gen:Variant.Strictor (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.