How To Remove OneDrive Email Scam Virus

Tips To Delete OneDrive Email Scam Trojan

OneDrive Email Scam is a social engineering tactic designed by potent cyber hackers in order to steal users’ email account credentials via Google Forms which is a survey administration platform. In this scam, thousands of fraudulent emails are sent by criminals that include letters claiming that a file has been shared with the receivers. However, to access the file, recipients will have to provide their email account credentials.

Text Presented In the Email Letter:

Subject: One Drive

[email protected] has shared a document with you.                   

                                                                                             

Date: 04/08/2020                                                      

                       This message was sent by [Sharepoint]

August-2020  #New_order.pdf       – 

852.08kb

ViewOneDriveDocument

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More About OneDrive Email Scam:

According the mails, “sales@fiored” has shared a file with the receivers. The letters also involve the date, when the document was allegedly shared. The file is supposedly titled “August-2020 #New_order.pdf” (may vary). As soon as you click the “ViewOneDriveDocument” button, you are taken to a Google Forms page. Visitors are asked to sign in with their email account to review the document. The web domain has two fields in which you have to provide the email address and password.

We emphasize that OneDrive Email Scam emails are fake and no file has been sent to the recipients. The domain through which you have to access the document is not a legitimate sign-in/verification page. In addition, the page even mentions to “never submit passwords through Google Forms”. Scammers are mainly interested in email accounts as they are usually connected with several other accounts. Hence, if they steal an email address, they can hijack all the associated accounts.

Using your emails, social media, social networking, messengers and other accounts, people behind OneDrive Email Scam can ask contacts for loans or spread virus or malware by sharing infectious files under your semblance. Stolen accounts store financial information like banking account or credit card details can be misused to make fraudulent transactions or online purchases. To summarize, trusting the “OneDrive” scam emails can lead to financial losses, severe privacy issues and even identity theft. Hackers often target those computer devices that are already infected with a kind of Trojan virus. And hence, instant removal of OneDrive Email Scam virus is highly recommended.

This hazardous parasite is able to deactivate all the running security measures and Windows Firewalls and makes the system vulnerable for other online threats. It may turn your PC into a malware-hub by dropping other notorious infections such as adware, spyware, worms, rootkits and even deadly Ransomware in the work-station.

Quick Glance

Name– OneDrive Email Scam

Category– Phishing, Scam, Trojan, banking malware

Description– Claims recipients have been sent a file and they must provide their account credentials to view it, Steals users’ sensitive information for advertising purposes and also to generate illicit income for the creators by misusing those details, Deactivates all the running security services of the infected device and drop more parasites 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

How Does This Trojan Enter Your PC?

Threats that work in the background often manage to get into the system via cracked, pirated, malicious files. Such distribution allows attackers to deliver malware without asking for any permissions and users’ knowledge. Altered files or even hacked sites can trigger infections pretty quickly and disturb the performance of the device significantly.

When you go for torrent sites, p2p platforms, pirating services, or even open files from shady emails, you risk getting malware scripts and direct payload of the trojan, ransomware. Ignore any messages, notifications from unknown senders, especially the email states about order details, financial information, invoices, and similar warnings. Delete email that raises questions, so you do not get deceived into opening or downloading any malware-related files or application. But at the moment, you must remove OneDrive Email Scam virus from the computer without wasting any time.

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 OneDrive Email Scam:

Remove the related items of OneDrive 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 OneDrive 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 (OneDrive 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 OneDrive 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 OneDrive 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 OneDrive 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 OneDrive 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 OneDrive 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.