Monday, September 9, 2013

How to Remove PUP.Optional.Conduit.A

What is PUP.Optional.Conduit.A

PUP.Optional.Conduit.A is a harmful computer threat that can infiltrate your computer
and do many things that totally beyond your imagination. This Trojan can be
distributed by spam e-mails in which it is disguised as an attachment or a link,
third-party programs that bundles with them and popups appeared when you visiting
those unsecure sites. Once you click those links or pop-ups or open those
attachments, then PUP.Optional.Conduit.A can get on your computer in a way that,
sometimes, antivirus fails to detect its infiltration.

It is just like opening a Pandora’s Box once a computer is infected with PUP.Optional.Conduit.A because its potential power to devastate your computer. First it can block you to run some programs to remove it. That could explain why antivirus fails to detect or detect it but could not remove it. Second, it can bring so many threats to compromise your browser, system or files. For example, we have dealt cases in which their IE was completely infected and every time users try to download something, a warning pops up and said” this file contain a virus and was delete”; Or their files—music, movie, Word, Excel, photos—were  encrypted by other viruses like CyptoLocker which is brought by PUP.Optional.Conduit.A. Third, PUP.Optional.Conduit.A can change system setting and modify registry. It can change the security level and add some registry to your computer to make it more legal or hide deeply. Last but not least, PUP.Optional.Conduit.A can open the backdoor andmake those cyber crackers access your computer more easily with the help of PUP.Optional.Conduit.A. Once they sneak into your computer, they can monitor everything you do on your computer and transfer your information to remote server. Your important information—bank account or other account, documents, photos—will be stolen and transferred to others. So I strongly suggest that, once your computer is infected with PUP.Optional.Conduit.A , you should remove it as soon as possible before it makes more chaos to your system.


How to remove it

A: Enter the safe mode with networking.
  Restart you computer and keep tapping F8 when the windows launches,then choose Safe Mode with Networking.
 


B: Enter the Task Manager and end the related process.
  Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and then choose Start the Task Manager.


  Find Random.exe and then remove it.

C: Show all the hidden files.
  Click Start>>Control Panel>>Appearance and Personalization>>File Option>>click tab  View. Check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.


D: Launch registry editor and remove those unseless or corrupted entries.
Hit Win+R and then type regedit in the dialog box.


Find the corrupted registry entries and remove it.
  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM]”
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “[RANDOM].exe”
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp

Finally, restart your machine.

Removal process should be much careful as you need to deal with registry and task
manager. If you have any problem during this removal process,please feel free to
contact us from here.


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