Remove E-Clipper Trojan From PC

Complete Guideline To Delete E-Clipper

E-Clipper is a kind of precarious malware infection that has been designed by potent cyber criminals to redirect outgoing transfers from Fiat currency wallets and cryptocurrency wallets. This trojan virus poses a serious threat to the reliability of aforesaid wallets. And hence, it can lead to major financial loss. Presence of this nasty malware in your computer may cause various hazardous issues and thus, you must get rid of it as soon as possible. Due to this, you may have to deal with multiple dilemmas such as data loss, application malfunctioning, software failure, frequent system crash and so on.

Depth Analysis of E-Clipper:

E-Clipper does not disclose its presence in the compromised system and has certain features to ensure its persistence. It is very light (i.e. final build – 30 KB) and hence, it does not damage the infected PCs’ resources, which assists in hiding its presence. This perilous trojan unpacks itself in the Windows system folder and is also run on Windows startup and can terminate error-free restart. It can also alter certain icons on your computer. However, as we have already said, the main motive of this malicious software is redirecting transfers from Fiat currency wallets and cryptocurrency wallets, to ones in control of cyber actors behind the infection.

E-Clipper does so by modifying the receiving wallet address entered by the victim to the address of the criminals’ wallet. As per the promotional material of this nasty application, the address replacement process is immediate and automatic. The virus targets various Fiat currency wallets such as: Yandex Money, Payeer, Qiwi, and Webmoney (WMZ [title unit conversion to USD] and WMR [title unit to RUB]). Cryptowallets targeted by this infection are: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bytecoin, Bitcoin Gold, Zcash, Litecoin, Stellar, DogeCoin, BlackCoin, Ripple, and Dash.

E-Clipper consumes huge amount of memory resources and drags down the overall PC performance severely. It causes the machine to respond slower than ever before and take more than usual time to complete any task. This precarious trojan can be also responsible for the intrusion of many other online threats like adware, spyware, rootkits, worms, and even deadly ransomware in your computer. It is able to deactivate all the running security measures and open backdoors for more them. And thus, you must perform E-Clipper removal from the system as early as possible.

Threat Summary

Name– E-Clipper

Category– Trojan, password-stealing virus, spyware

Description: 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 Malware Enter Your PC?

The creators of this tool offered it for sale for 800 RUB (Russian rubles). And hence, how it is propagated depends on the hackers using it. In general, these trojan viruses are mainly spread through spam campaigns, illegal activation tools (“cracks”), fake updaters and dubious download channels. The term “spam campaign” refers to a mass-scale operation, during which thousands of precarious emails are sent. These letters have infections files attached to them or linked inside them. Malevolent files can be in multiple formats such as Microsoft Office and PDF documents, archives, executables, JavaScript, etc. and when they are opened – the infection process/chain is initiated.

Tips To Prevent Virus Infiltration:

To avoid this, you should not open suspicious mails, especially any attachments or links found in them – as that can result in a high-risk infection. You are highly advised to always download software from official and verified sources. Additionally, all products have to be updated and activated with tools/functions provided by genuine developers. Never use third party updaters and illegal activation tools (“cracks”), as they often propagate malware. In case you are already infected with this trojan, you must remove E-Clipper from the machine 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 E-Clipper:

Remove the related items of E-Clipper 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 E-Clipper 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 (E-Clipper) 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 E-Clipper 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 E-Clipper 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 E-Clipper 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 E-Clipper 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 E-Clipper (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.