How to remove Telegram Virus

Easy guide to delete Telegram Virus

You might familiar with Telegram – a social media messaging platform having over 500 million monthly active users and you might be one of them. You can download this application from its official page and is also available on Google Play and App Store. As per researchers, there are many deceptive domains (such as telegramdesktop[.]com, telegramdesktop[.]net, and telegramdesktop[.]org) that offer fake downloads of the Telegram application. The app download in this case is called Telegram Virus that has the function of info stealer viruses.

The fake telegram application can be employed to steal log-in credentials, cryptocurrency wallets and credit card details, cookies, auto-fill data and passwords and so on. It can steal other sensitive information as well. The crooks may make the use of such data in various malicious purposes for example to make fraudulent purchases, transactions, stealing identities and using to spread other malicious malware like Trojan, Ransomware and Spyware. They might focus on scamming you through scam emails so as to ensure monetary transaction, sell stolen accounts and or sensitive to third parties.

Additionally, Telegram Virus allows the crooks to gain remote access to the system. Thus, it becomes easy for them to spread other malicious infection. They might drop cryptoucurency miner or any other spyware or potentially unwanted programs. The involvement of the virus with a cryptomining process is something neesd to be concerned- the processes require high amount of CPU and GPU power to generate Monero, ZCash, Fantomcoin and other form of digital cryptocurrency. Unfortunately, the high CPU power might result into significantly downgrading of the PC performance or even the permanent system damage.

Therefore, if you won’t take an action in quick, you must encounter with the consequences like increase latency, crashes or continue computer freezes. According to experts, Telegram Virus might act as a backdoor to infiltrate many more malicious malware to the system. Thus, this would be the best decision to scan the system immediately using some professional tools and remove Telegram Virus as soon as possible. Below the post, you will find complete manual instruction on how to perform the removal process. For automatic removal, using some reputable antivirus tool to perform the malware removal is the best.

Obfuscated PNG images cause the malware infection

As per experts, Telegram Virus malware is distributed as a JavaScript file, disguised as a PNF image. Crooks employ RLO character to force telegram to display the counterfeit string of the file. As an instance, a evil.js file would be displayed as photo_high_resj.png. *U+202E* RLO character is embedded with the file to make people believe that the file is not malicious or potentially dangerous. People click on these image files lead to the immediate installation of malware to their system.

There is a piece of advice for the users who are using Telegram to get help from the professional right now as no one knows what exactly the products that got affected by this cyber threat. As it was said before, run a system scan using some robust antivirus tool to remove Telegram Virus and similar malicious programs within systems. If the program is not letting you downloading the antivirus tool, follow the guide provided below the post. Try to perform the action as soon as possible so that the infection would not cause more damage to the PC.

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 Telegram Virus:

Remove the related items of Telegram 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 Telegram 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 (Telegram 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 Telegram 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 Telegram 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 Telegram 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 Telegram 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 Telegram 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.