Remove GoDaddy Email Scam Virus

GoDaddy Email Scam Trojan: Simple Uninstall Steps

GoDaddy Email Scam refers to a mass-scale operation during which cyber criminals send thousands of phishing emails that are disguised as notifications from GoDaddy. GoDaddy is a widely traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. These deceptive emails inform recipients about the upcoming upgrade to their emails and request to verify their email accounts. The letters advertise a phishing website, especially designed to record the log-in credentials (i.e., passwords) entered by users. We highly emphasize that the details provided by these emails are false and they have no relation with the legitimate GoDaddy, Inc.

Know More About GoDaddy Email Scam:

The “GoDaddy Email Scam” letters have “Attention Dear User” as subject/title, that may diverse. According to these mails, the recipients’ email accounts will be upgraded from “Workspace” to “Microsoft 365 Email”. Users are then instructed to verify their email accounts to start the upgrade and acquire new enhanced features. They are also warned not to ignore these mails, or else, it will lead to the accounts being blocked/closed. These spam mails also include a “UPGRADE STORAGE” link which once clicked, recipients are redirected to a phishing site.

The page that GoDaddy Email Scam victims get redirected to is presented as a sign-in page. And thus, when recipients enter their email addresses and passwords into this site, it is recorded and sent to the scammers which allow them access the corresponding email accounts. Cyber crooks generally target email accounts because they are often connected with other services and platforms. And hence, once they steal mails, they can gain control over the accounts linked with them. Scammers can pretend to the owners of those accounts and ask the contacts/followers/friends for loans via the emails, messengers, social networking etc.

Quite often, those users are targeted with GoDaddy Email Scam whose devices are already infected with a trojan virus. Once this hazardous threat successfully infiltrates Windows computers, it starts performing malicious deeds in the background and wreaks havoc onto the machine. It can deactivate all the running security services and Windows Firewalls and allow other online parasites to enter the machine as well. It ruins vital system files that are essential for smooth PC functioning and prevents many running apps as well as drivers from working in an appropriate manner. All the malicious activities performed by this trojan consume enormous amount of memory resources and slow down the overall system performance drastically. And hence, a quick GoDaddy Email Scam virus removal is strongly recommended.

How Does This Trojan Enter Your PC?

Like many other similar infections, it is also mainly distributed through spam emails. These emails include malicious files or download links of such files which once executed, triggers the installation of virus. The deceptive emails are presented as “important”, “urgent” or similar in order to deceive recipients into downloading their attachments. The vicious files attached to them can be in any of these formats: JavaScript, PDF and Microsoft Office documents, executables (.exe, .run, etc.), archives (ZIP, RAR, etc.), and so on.

And hence, it is important to not open the irrelevant emails that you receive from unknown senders as you never know what they contain. If you ever get an unexpected mail, you should first scan the attachment using a reputable anti-malware tool and if you find anything suspicious, ignore it. But at the moment, you must remove GoDaddy Email Scam virus from the computer as soon as possible.

Text Presented In The Letters:

Subject: Attention Dear User

GoDaddy

24/7 Support: (480) 505-8821

Dear User,

WE’re dedicated to securing your account and serving you better, Your email will be upgraded from Workspace to Microsoft 365 Email.

Until then, we highly recommend all our active customers to validate their email to enable us serve you better with our new improved features.

Ignoring this will lead to immediate closure and loss of your email.

See the below for your Email upgrade

UPGRADE STORAGE

Blake Irving

CEO, GoDaddy

Copyright © 1999-2021 GoDaddy Operating Company, LLC. 14455 N. Hayden Rd, Ste. 219, Scottsdale, AZ 85260, USA. All Rights Reserved.

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 GoDaddy Email Scam:

Remove the related items of GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy 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 (GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy 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 GoDaddy 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.