How To Remove Mail – Quarantined email scam Virus

Tips To Delete Mail – Quarantined email scam

Mail – Quarantined email scam is a deceptive tactic used by scammers to deceive users into accessing a perilous site and sharing their email account login credentials on it. In this scam, several phishing emails are sent by cyber criminals that can be also utilized to trick recipients into providing other sensitive information as well such as social security numbers, bank and credit card details etc. Criminals mainly target those PC users whose systems are already infected with trojan virus. This precarious threat successfully infiltrates your computer using illusive method and then starts performing malicious acts in the background.

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In the Mail – Quarantined email scam, users are claimed that they supposedly have some pending emails that can only be delivered to them once they “release” those mails by pressing the “Release and add to safelist” link next to the email address of each sender. As soon as those links are clicked, they open the same website where recipients are asked to provide their email account login credentials. Note that the stolen accounts could be misused by scammers to send malspam emails, spread the same or different phishing email later on, trick people into transferring money to cyber crooks, steal identities and other personal data like bank account numbers, credit card details etc.

Mail – Quarantined email scam virus can be also responsible for the penetration of many other online threats in your computer as it can deactivate all the running security services and open backdoors for them. It may easily install adware, spyware, RATs, browser hijackers or even dangerous ransomware in your PC and turn your system into a malware-hub. During the presence of this hazardous threat in your work-station, you might be flooded with endless intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day which interrupts your web sessions badly.

Mail – Quarantined email scam virus may redirect you to potentially infectious sites that are filled with malevolent contents that might lead to more malware threats in your computer. It can be also utilized for mining digital currencies like BitCoins or Monero which consume huge amount of memory resources and drag down the overall PC performance severely. And hence, a quick Mail – Quarantined email scam virus removal is strongly recommended.

Threat Summary

Name– Mail – Quarantined email scam

Category– Trojan, password-stealing virus, spyware

Description– Claims a certain number of emails cannot be delivered, steals users’ personal and sensitive data for generating revenues and for other deceptive purposes, drops more parasites in the machine and turn the system into a malware-hub.

Symptoms– Slowness of system’s performance, loss of personal information, infiltration of a virus, system compromise, security alerts, 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

How Does This Trojan Enter Your System?

These types of computer viruses are mostly spread via malspam when recipients download and execute and spiteful files attached to phishing emails. That file can be also downloaded via website that is included in the email. It can be in multiple formats such as JavaScript files, PDF, Microsoft Office documents, executable files (like .exe), or archive files (like ZIP, RAR).

And thus, you should ignore links and attachments in emails coming from unknown senders. These mails are specially designed in a way that can trick recipients into opening them and downloading their malevolent attachments. Whenever you receive an email that you were not expecting to get, first scan the attachment using a reputable anti-malware tool and if you find nothing suspicious, open it. But at the moment, you must remove Mail – Quarantined email scam virus from the machine without wasting any time.

Text Presented In The Email Letter:

End User Digest: 3 New Held Messages

For ********

Total 3 Held Messages (Summary Digest):

All email messages in your personal Quarantine.

Messages will be deleted at the latest after 5 days. To deliver an email to your inbox, click on Release.

The emails listed in this section have been placed in your personal Quarantine. Click Release to deliver the email to your inbox. To continue to receive future emails from the sender, click Allow Sender. To report messages that are not spam but are included in the Spam – Quarantined section, click Not Spam.

Mail – Quarantined 

Score    From    Subject    Date    Action

100    [email protected]    UCP – PO A4643    12/09/20 Release and add to safelist

100    [email protected]    Re: Please respond to me 12/09/20 Release and add to safelist

100    [email protected]    Re:Fwd:2020/ESD – Stock Price request.    12/09/20 Release and add to safelist

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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 Mail – Quarantined email scam:

Remove the related items of Mail – Quarantined email scam 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 Mail – Quarantined email scam 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 (Mail – Quarantined email scam) 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 Mail – Quarantined email scam 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 Mail – Quarantined email scam 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 Mail – Quarantined email scam 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 Mail – Quarantined email scam 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 Mail – Quarantined email scam (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.