How to remove GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS Email Virus

Easy methods to delete GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS Email Virus in Windows 10/8/7 computer

GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS Email Virus is phishing/scam considered as Trojan horse virus. This scam email attempts to tricks you into installing ‘LokiBot Malware’ – Trojan virus in your computer. Scammers or malware programmers use the name of ‘GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS’ company in its spam email campaign and send a email in your mailbox which contain some false-positive messages along with some hyperlinks/attachments file. The attachment file presented in this scam email in the form of .xlsx file with filename ‘PPT SAMPLE AND po.xlsx’ (Filename may differ).

GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS Email Virus use the ‘RE: Purchase order-12034428 HANG TANG ARTWORK’ or similar keywords in subject/title of email and use ‘GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS’ company name as proof that they are genuine senders. This scam email requests you to provide your approval of attached order, and try to convince you to open the attachment file presented in email. As mentioned, the attachment file is in the form of Xlsx file format which may includes some information about purchase order but the main aim of this attachment file is to enable malicious commands to download/install ‘LokiBot Malware’ in your device.

The main purpose of LokiBot Malware –Trojan malware is to steal your data. This nasty Trojan virus is capable of infecting both Windows OS and Android OS based devices. It is also capable of your monitoring your online activities and collecting your browsing-related data or other sensitive data. This virus can record keystrokes means they can collect your login ID & password credentials details of your various online accounts when you attempt to enter login credential details. Once they gain to hijack or collect your email account credentials, they can attempt to login into your email account and can send & read your emails.

However, they can use your hijacked email accounts for scam or malicious purposes like to create new accounts on various scam platforms using your email account, or can attempt to hijack your other accounts like social media accounts associated with your email account. These collected data can be shared with other attackers or third-party to generate some revenue from them. In sort, this scam email is unsafe at all. So, it is important to find and remove GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS Email Virus related files in computer as soon as possible.

How did you get GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS Email Virus in Windows 10/8/7 computer?

Spam Email Campaign or Malspam Campaign is the mostly used mechanism by cybercriminals to spread Trojans, ransomware or malware in your computer. They send spam emails in your mailbox which contain some messages along with hyperlinks/attachments. The attachments can be Microsoft Office Documents, PDF, RAR, ZIP, JavaScript or other formats of files. Once opened, it executes certain codes/scripts to infect your computer with malware or viruses. For example, Microsoft Office Documents as malicious attachments infect computer by enabling malicious macro commands. This way, they can trigger malware like LokiBot Malware in your computer.

How to protect your System against online scam, scam emails, Trojans or malware?

Any attachments or hyperlinks presented in spam emails must not be opened. You should never reply to spam emails at any cases. You should check if ‘Anti-Spam Filter’ feature is enabled in your mail service you use. This feature when enabled, all spammy emails will automatically be delivered to ‘Spam’ folder of your mail service you use. Also, you should keep up-to-date your operating system and all other software installed in your computer, and run regular system scan for malware or viruses with some powerful antivirus software in computer.

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 GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS Email Virus:

Remove the related items of GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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 GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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 (GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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 GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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 GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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 GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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 GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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 GOYAL ARTS AND TOYS 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.