How to Remove Pup.Optional.Babylon.A

What is Pup.Optional.Babylon.a?

Pup.optional.babylon.a is a notorious Trojan horse that belong s to the group of PUP. Optional family. It can seek the vulnerabilities on your computer and exploit advanced root kit technology to infect your computer. After being attacked by Pup.optional.babylon.a, computer will become very slower than before and even freeze.  First casualty would be your system file and registry, which is the most important part. It can change the system’s setting and delete some important files on your computer, then modify registry entries, like adding some startup items to the registry which causes system take time load these items and might lead to instability. Apart from these, Pup.optional.babylon.a  can bring a lot of infections to your computer, like PUP.Optional.InstallCore.A or other ransomware.

With the help of PUP.Optional.InstallCore.A, cyber criminals can easily get on your computer and doing something sneaky. They can monitor your every move on your computer and the go way with your private information for other malicious purposes.  Why do some antivirus could not remove it? That’s because the process of antivirus is blocked by Pup.optional.babylon.a and your computer is more likely to get infected without the protection of antivirus.

How do you catch it?

Have you ever recently visit any other suspicious sites? Yes, that’s why you catch it. Insecure sites may contain virus and if you visit, or download something from there, that would be quite dangerous. Pup.optional.babylon.a  can be bundled with other legal programs and if you install those programs in quicker way (which means install by default), you will get it install too.

 How to remove it

Step 1: enter the Safe Mode with Networking.
Restart your computer >> As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8″ key constantly >> Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option and then press ENTER >> If you don’t get the Safe Mode with Networking option, please restart the computer again and keep tapping "F8" key immediately.

Step 2: Stop the process of Pup.optional.babylon.a.
    Press “Ctrl+Alt+Alt” to enter the task manager.

    Find the random.exe and remove it.

Step 3: Open the control panel, find the Trojan and remove it.
    Click Start>>Control Panel>>Uninstall a Program.

Step 4:Enter the registry and delete the corrupted registry entries.
    Press”Win+R”>>type “regedit” to enter the registry.

find the following corrupted registry entries and remove them:
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Random’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

 Finally: reboot the system to make your change effective.

 NOTE:As manual  removal requires advanced method, if you are not that professional, it is advisable for you to get online tech support 24/7 here.