Remove Precomp.exe Trojan From PC

Simple Steps To Delete Precomp.exe

Precomp.exe is a type of hazardous computer virus that can cause several notorious issues onto the Windows systems with its malicious activities. It’s a precarious trojan which conducts a series of malevolent deeds in the background of your system and wreaks havoc onto the machine. Initially, it hides itself in the deep corner of the machine in order to avoid being detected by the scanning of anti-malware suites. It can be used for multiple deceptive purposes such as stealing personal data, dropping more cyber threats onto the compromised PCs, mining cryptocurency and so on.

Depth Analysis of Precomp.exe:

Precomp.exe makes vicious entries in registry editors and alters its default settings in order to get automatically activated with each PC startup. It messes with vital system files which assure efficient computer functioning and prevents many running apps as well as drivers from working in an appropriate manner. This perilous trojan eats up huge amount of memory resources to mine digital currency like BitCoins or Monero. However, this activity drags down the overall computer performance severely. PC starts responding in a very slow manner and takes more than usual to complete any task.

Precomp.exe virus has ability to disable the working of all the running security measures and Windows Firewalls and open backdoors for more notorious parasites. It may easily bring other hazardous threats such as adware, worms, rootkits, spyware and even deadly ransomware in your work-station and turn the device into a malware-hub. A ransomware tends to encrypt users’ essential files and data and then extort illicit profits from the victims in exchange for the decryption software. If Precomp.exe could manage to inject such destructive crypto-viruses, nothing can be worse than that.

This notorious malware steals your personal and confidential information such as credit card and banking details, user IDs, passwords etc. and exposes them to cyber criminals for evil purposes. Scammers can misuse your sensitive information for fraudulent transactions and purposes that might result in huge financial loss for you. In addition to that, it can be also responsible for the appearance of tons of annoying ads and pop-ups on your system screen that makes your web surfing very complex. You might be redirected to scam, phishing or even malware-laden sites and end up with getting more online infections in the machine. And hence, an instant Precomp.exe removal is highly required.

Threat Summary

Name– Precomp.exe

Category– Trojan, worm, password-stealing virus, spyware

Description– Steals users’ personal details to generate illicit revenues for the creators by misusing those information, and for other illusive purposes, eats up huge amount of memory resources to mine digital currency 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– Contaminated attached storage devices, 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?

Malspam campaign is the most common technique used by cyber hackers to spread trojan viruses. You receive eye-catching emails from unknown senders that pretend to be coming from reputable companies or institutions. However, these mails include bogus attachments in forms of MS Office or PDF documents, executable or archive files etc. The moment, you open, run or execute the attachments, virus installation process begins.

And therefore, you should not open emails or download their attachments that you receive from unknown sources as you never know what they are bringing to your device. In case your PC is already infected with this virus, you must remove Precomp.exe from the work-station as early 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 Precomp.exe:

Remove the related items of Precomp.exe 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 Precomp.exe 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 (Precomp.exe) 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 Precomp.exe 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 Precomp.exe 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 Precomp.exe 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 Precomp.exe 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 Precomp.exe (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.