How To Remove Kbot virus From Computer

Complete Guideline To Delete Kbot virus From PC

Kbot virus is a kind of notorious computer infection that falls under trojan category. This nasty malware is capable of intruding any Windows PCs without users’ approval and conducting a series of malicious activities in the background. It can steal your personal and confidential information such as user IDs, passwords, cryptocurrency wallet data, lists of files and installed apps, banking-related and other personal details. Later on, it shares those stuffs with Online hackers who can misuse your personal data for generating illicit revenues and cause you to suffer a big financial loss. It can cause its victims a number of serious issues such as application malfunctioning, data loss, boot errors, software failure, hard drive and so on.

Kbot virus is able to deactivate all the running security services and make the PC vulnerable for more notorious parasites. It allows other Online infections such as adware, rootkits, worms, spyware and even deadly ransomware to sneak into your device as well and cause more damages inside. It eats up huge amount of memory resources and slows down the overall computer performance drastically. This hazardous trojan causes the machine to respond slower than ever before and take more than usual time to complete any task. Initially, Kbot virus hides itself in the deep corner of the system so that it could not be easily detected by the scanning of anti-malware tools.

How Does Kbot virus Enter Your System?

This notorious trojan generally infiltrates your PC through local networks, Internet, infected external media drive and so on. Either way, it can do that if people executes some malevolent file. At the normal circumstance, spiteful files are proliferated through spam campaigns, Trojans, software cracking tools, unreliable software download channels and fake software updates. You often receive emails from unknown sender that include malicious attachments in forms of PDF documents, MS Office, executable files, ZIP or JavaScript files, archive files like RAR. The moment you open them, those files initiate installing one or another malware. Apart from this, freeware downloads, unofficial websites, peer to peer networks, third-party downloaders can be also used to spread such infections too. And so, you need to be very attentive while surfing the web and stay away from these malevolent sources to keep the device safe and secured.

Threat Details

Name- Kbot virus

Category- Trojan, password stealing virus

Description- Aims to steal users’ sensitive data, deactivate all the running security programs and help other Online threats to get into the device.

Symptoms- Slowness of system’s performance, fake error messages, security alerts 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 Common Symptoms of Kbot virus:

Due to the presence of Kbot virus in your computer, you are flooded with thousands of annoying ads and pop-ups all over the day that makes your web sessions very complex and problematic. These ads are in multiple forms and are based on your Online habits and hence, most of them look very eye-catching and can easily gain your attention. This nasty threat redirects you to unknown web portals where tons of sponsored stuffs are promoted and forces you to buy and install bogus software by displaying fake security alerts. However, some sites might be fully occupied with malicious contents due to visiting on which, you may end up with getting more pernicious infections in the machine. It ruins important system files which assure efficient PC functioning and prevents many installed apps as well as drivers from working in an appropriate manner. It assists remote criminal to get access to your device and contribute evil acts snide for their delicate welfare. And hence, in order to prevent all these hazards from being occurred, you must delete Kbot virus from the machine 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 Kbot virus:

Remove the related items of Kbot 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 Kbot 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 (Kbot 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 Kbot 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 Kbot 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 Kbot 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 Kbot 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 Kbot 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.