How To Remove SharpEye RAT Trojan From Computer

Tips To Delete SharpEye RAT Trojan From PC

SharpEye RAT Trojan is a perilous malware infection that has ability to infiltrate any Windows PCs without users’ approval and conduct a series of malicious activities in the background. Initially, it hides itself in the deep corner of the machine so that it could not be easily detected by the scanning of anti-malware software. After that, it starts executing evil deeds inside your computer and causes multiple hazardous issues in the machine such as frequent system crash, data loss, boot errors, application malfunctioning, hard drive failure and so on. This perilous trojan is able to deactivate all the running security services and Windows Firewalls and open backdoors for more notorious parasites.

SharpEye RAT Trojan can easily bring other Online threats such as adware, rootkits, spyware, worms and even deadly ransomware in your computer and turn the device into a malware-hub. A crypto-virus has tendency to encrypt users’ crucial files and then ask them to pay off for the decryption tool. If such types of destructive file-encoding threats could manage to intrude your work-station, nothing can be worse than that. This notorious malware keeps performing evil activities in the background all the time which consumes huge amount of memory resources and drags down the overall system performance severely. SharpEye RAT Trojan causes the PC to respond slower than ever before and take more then usual time to complete any task.

How Does SharpEye RAT Trojan Infect Your System:

This pernicious trojan is generally spread through several illusive tactics by its creators. It can get into your system after visiting an infected website that is filled with malicious installers, opening spam emails and downloading its attachment, by clicking on misleading pup-up ad. Moreover, downloading illegal programs and similar things can also increase the possibility of such malware attack. And so, you need to be very careful while surfing the web and avoid getting in touch with these nasty sources to keep the PC harmless and secured. Ignore suspicious emails coming from unknown source as it may contain rogue attachment which automatically gets loaded and leads to the virus intrusion once you click on the mail.

Quick Glance

Name- SharpEye RAT Trojan

Category- Trojan, password-stealing virus, spyware, banking malware

Description- Steal users’ sensitive data for adverting purpose and also to generate illicit revenues by misusing those details, Disables all the running security measures of the infected PC and drop more infections 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

Other Harmful Traits of SharpEye RAT Trojan:

SharpEye RAT Trojan is a kind of virus that can spy on your web activities and collect important data regarding your interests and need which is then utilized by the advertisers for the advertisement campaign. And thus, you are flooded with thousands of intrusive ads and pop-ups all over the day that makes your Online browsing very complex and problematic. These ads look very eye-catching but might redirect you to phishing, scamming or even malware-laden sites that are filled with malicious contents. Additionally, it can also steal your personal data relating to banking and other financial details and expose them to hackers for evil purposes. And therefore, SharpEye RAT Trojan is a big hazard for your privacy too.

This nasty trojan makes vicious entries in Windows registries and modifies its default setting in order to get automatically activated every time the device is started. However, this act brings several pernicious issues such as hard drive crash, software failure, boot errors, application malfunctioning and so on. It messes with important system files that are essential for smooth computer functioning and prevents many installed apps as well as drivers from working in a proper manner. This hazardous malware displays fake security warnings stating that some issues have been detected in your system and then tries to scam you into installing rogue software or buy software. And therefore, looking at all these threats, you are strongly recommended to remove SharpEye RAT Trojan from the work-station as soon as possible.

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 SharpEye RAT Trojan:

Remove the related items of SharpEye RAT Trojan 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 SharpEye RAT Trojan 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 (SharpEye RAT Trojan) 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 SharpEye RAT Trojan 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 SharpEye RAT Trojan 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 SharpEye RAT Trojan 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 SharpEye RAT Trojan 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 SharpEye RAT Trojan (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.