Remove Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus From PC

Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus: Easy Uninstall Guide

Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus is a dreadful computer infection that is usually proliferated via malspam campaign. The term spam campaign refers to a large-scale operation during which cyber crooks send tons of deceptive emails. These mails are presented as notifications from FedEx – an American multinational delivery services company. These fraudulent letters state that due to an incorrect address, the delivery has been failed. However, it can be resolved by submitting revised documentation. Nonetheless, as soon as the document is opened, it initiates the download and installation of Qakbot trojan.

More About Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus:

The “Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus” letters have “Delivery status update” as subject/title. Recipients are informed that their shipping address is not valid and the delivery status is specified as “failed”. It is claimed that the shipping address is not correct. Then the email receivers are requested to review the document attached to it, fill out the form, and send it back to resume with the shipping/delivery process. We highly emphasize that the real FedEx has no relation with these emails and the details provided with them are false. Therefore, instead of including the mentioned information, the attachment starts the installation of Qakbot trojan once opened.

Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus is categorized as a banking Trojan as it mainly targets data related to online banking. The main motive of this pernicious threat is to steal victims’ bank account credentials i.e., their email addresses, usernames, IDs, and passwords. Information that can be extracted by this virus are personally identifiable details, log-in credentials, browsing activity (viewed webpages, searched queries, visited URLs, etc.), Internet cookies, IP addresses/geolocations, etc. It can even record keystrokes and take screenshots.

Another terrible functionality of Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus is triggering chain infections. This means that it can download/install other hazardous cyber threats (e.g., ransomware, cryptocurrency, RATs, miners, etc.). Hence, it can be highly dangerous for the contaminated PCs. To summarize, if you trust these deceptive letters, you can undergo severe privacy issues, identity theft, major financial losses, various system infections and other perilous dilemmas. If this notorious malware has already infected your work-station, you must perform employ an anti-virus and perform Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus removal from the machine immediately.

How Does Qakbot trojan Intrude Your PC?

As stated before, Qakbot trojan is generally distributed via malicious documents that come attached with phishing emails. These fake letters are disguised as notifications from FedEx however, they typically contain malevolent attachment. The virulent file can be in multiple formats: archive and executable files, Microsoft Office and PDF documents, JavaScript, and so forth. As soon as soon as the recipients open, run or execute the malevolent file, it triggers the download and installation of the Qakbot trojan. In other cases, Trojan viruses can also be distributed due to using untrustworthy download channels like Peer-to-Peer sharing networks, third-party downloaders etc.

So, to prevent this from happening, it is advisable to not open emails coming from unknown sources or not expected to receive. These mails are generally disguised as ‘important’, ‘official’, or ‘urgent’ letters form some well-known companies or institutions. So, you must scan their attachments first with a reputable anti-malware tool before opening it. But at the moment, you must remove Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus from the computer as soon as possible.

Text Presented In The Letters:

Subject: Delivery status update

FedEx

Your address is invalid.

Tracking ID: 7974720929

Date: 5.19.21

Email : –

Status: Failed

Reason: Your shipping address contains a bad value.

Please, check the attached document, fill out the form and send it back.

FedEx 1995-2021 Copyright, 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 Your Address Is Invalid Email Virus:

Remove the related items of Your Address Is Invalid Email 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 Your Address Is Invalid Email 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 (Your Address Is Invalid Email 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 Your Address Is Invalid Email 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 Your Address Is Invalid Email 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 Your Address Is Invalid Email 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 Your Address Is Invalid Email 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 Your Address Is Invalid Email 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.