How To Remove Spepopud Trojan

Complete Steps To Delete Nasty Program

Spepopud or Spepopud.exe is the process for the lobit Driver Booster program. It is not something malicious to the computer, nonetheless, Trojan horses usually tend to imitate Spepopud.exe when they assault a system so as to avoid being detected. If this process has been viewed in your Task Manager, but there aren’t any questionable symptoms on your PC, then you probably have no reason to be worried. Yet, if you notice some unusual signs such as sluggish system performance, crashes or freezes, etc., then this could be the case of malware infection. Hence, you need to find and remove Spepopud from the device ASAP.

Threat Summary

Name: Spepopud

Category: Trojan, Malware

Characteristics: Cyber crooks can use this Trojan for multiple of hateful purposes

Danger level: High

Signs: Too much usage of CPU and GPU, frequent system crashes, etc.

Distribution: Spam email attachments, dubious download sources, etc.

More Facts About Spepopud:

The Spepopud.exe virus is synonym for any type of malicious application that imitates the file and process of the lobit Driver Booster program to evade raising doubt. The purpose of this Trojan horse cannot be determined, as such parasites can notorious for their versatile capabilities and several potential damaging uses. It can corrupt the work-station and the user data, achieve online banking frauds, employ enormous amount of system’s resources for cryptocurrency mining, help other dangerous cyber threats to sneak into the compromised PC, and so on.

Spepopud can be also employed for extracting sensitive information from the infected computer and sending them to cyber criminals, who, in turn, can use the collected data to drain the victim’s banking accounts or to blackmail them. Though the particular motive and aim of this malware is not known at the present time, it is likely that its existence within your machine could result in security flaws and make your PC vulnerable to attacks from other dangerous infections. For example, it can install deadly ransomware inside your computer which tends to encrypt users’ crucial files and then ask them to pay a huge sum of ransom for their decryption. Prevent Spepopud from bringing in such crypto-viruses in your machine by completely eliminating it.

How Does The Malware Infiltrate Systems?

Some most common malware distribution techniques are: malicious email attachments, insecure download sources, fake software updaters and installers, misleading online content, and so on. Spam emails sent from the internet crooks may contain vicious attachments which upon clicked or opened, may lead to malware intrusion. Be very careful while surfing the web and never every email message sent from unknown addresses. Before opening their attachments, scan it via a reliable security app. Don’t trust third-party sources to download or update software, and better use official or verified channels only.

FAQs

Why is Spepopud spread?

This nasty Trojan horse can be spread with the purpose of stealing users’ sensitive data, proliferating additional malware into the device, mining cryptocurrencies using huge system resources, and so on. If this threat infiltrates your PC, it would be a true nightmare to cope with.

How to prevent such attacks?

Avoid doing activities that may lead to system infections such as visiting questionable sites, using corrupt torrents, interacting with random online content, opening irrelevant email attachments, etc. Also, protect your device with a reputable security app and keep it up-to-date.

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 Spepopud:

Remove the related items of Spepopud 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 Spepopud 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 (Spepopud) 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 Spepopud 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 Spepopud 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 Spepopud 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 Spepopud 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 Spepopud (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.