How to remove Grakate Stealer virus

Easy tips to delete Grakate Stealer virus

Grakate Stealer is a type of malware that has data stealing capability from the victim’s computer. It is found on sale on hackers’ forums with a lifetime subscription costs 2000 rubles and a mostly one costs 490 rubles per month.

The virus can steal passwords, cookies, auto-fill data and credit card details from Chromium and Gecko web browsers. Also, it can collect the cryptowallet data from Atomic, Electrum, Ethereum, Exodus and ZCash crypto wallets and the files containing the info regarding Discord and Telegram clients.

Moreover, Grakate Stealer virus can even download files of different formats, including .cpp, .rdp, .doc, .docx, .hpp, .lua and .txt from the desktop. It can even capture screen and collect IPs. The malicious authors use suh data in accessing various accounts and misuse them for malicious purchases and more.

They can use these data to hijack accounts, make fraudulent purchases, transactions, and trick other users into providing their personal data, infecting their systems or any other purposes. Therefore, this malware can have serious impact on your system and privacy both.

If you think that the virus made an entry to your system, you should act immediately. Run a full system scan using some reputable antivirus tool to make sure that the virus and all malicious components got removed from the system.

Also, take care of the crucial data, if you think that any of your accounts got compromised, contact for the official support. Change your passwords and have a combination of letter, symbol and character. Another important thing is that you should not have one password for multiple accounts.

How did Grakate Stealer enter my system?

Usually, malware are distributed through Trojans, emails, unreliable sources for downloading software, fake software updaters and cracking tools. Crooks behind emails used to deliver malware attempt to trick people into opening attachments or files downloaded through provided links.

Malicious files distributed through unreliable sources such as p2p networks, third party downloaders infect systems when users download and open them. Fake software updaters cause system infections by injecting malware instead of updating, fixing software or exploiting bugs/flaws of outdated software.

Software cracking tools are designed to perform illegal software activation, which is to bypass software activation without paying for it. It is very common that such tools contain malicious malware and people who use it lead into malware installation at the end.

How to prevent malware intrusion?

Do not open any files or website links in any irrelevant emails received from unknown, suspicious addresses. Such emails will likely to be sent for the purpose to deliver malware. Also, avoid downloading and files from unreliable sources.

Use official pages and direct links for any downloads. Update/ activate any installed software using tools/ functions from official software developer. Scan your system for threats on regular basis and perform this using security tool with the latest virus detection database.

Get Grakate Stealer removal tips

If your system is already infected, we recommend you use some reputable antivirus tool and run a full system scan using it. The software will find the virus and all its associated components and performs their removal on behalf of you, leaving no risks of damages that you usually have when you perform the removal process by own.

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 Grakate Stealer :

Remove the related items of Grakate Stealer 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 Grakate Stealer 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 (Grakate Stealer ) 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 Grakate Stealer 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 Grakate Stealer 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 Grakate Stealer 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 Grakate Stealer 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 Grakate Stealer (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.