How to Remove Trojan horse Backdoor.Generic18.UIY from Your Computer? ( Manual Removal Instruction Step by Step)

1 Introduction

Trojan horse Backdoor.Genric18.UIY is a virus reported by several antiviruses. As a Trojan, this virus is a dangerous one, other than adware, malware etc. usually a Trojan is not an executable file, it often inject itself into other process, thus the virus can hide itself and not easy to be found. Trojan like Backdoor.Generic18.UIYalways open a backdoor in the computer thus the hacker can easily log in, then copy what they want or just wander around. So if your computer is infected with Trojan, the private data in it is no longer safe, you need to remove virus like Backdoor.Generic18.UIY ASAP if you still want to protect your data. Antivirus analysis the behavior of the running process and compare the injected files to the virus library to found Backdoor.Generic18.UIY, it is hard to discover by user to it is really necessary to keep a antivirus running on your computer.

2 How did Backdoor.Generic18.UIY

There are several ways that a virus like Backdoor.Generic18.UIY can settle itself into you computer. First, E-mail is a simple and easy way, when you open an email attachment, it seems nothing abnormal, buy thousands of virus build their home in the computer through this step. So the tip is: Do not attempt to open emails and its attachments sent by untreatable contracts,especially when the attachments named itself like a porn torrent. Second, some website are dangerous to visit, some website once you visit it’ll run scripts to inject Trojan like Backdoor.Generic18.UIY into the computers. But if you have Internet security software, it’ll remind you whether the website is safe to visit and stop the script, and lots of antivirus will do. Third, install unknown packages or software download from unsafe websites, to avoid this just remember to download things from it’s official site.one tip, use a password that is not easy to guess as the password of your computer account, and do not use Administrator as the account name, and disable the guest account if it is not in need.

Manual Removal Instruction Step by Step:

Step 1: Boot up the infected computer, press F8 at the very beginning, choose “Safe Mode with Networking” and press Enter to get in safe mode with networking.

Step 2: Press Ctrl+Alt+Del keys together and stop Backdoor.Generic18.UIY processes in the Windows Task Manager.

Step 3: Open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options. When Folder Options window opens, click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

Step 4: Search for all infected files and registry entries and remove them from your computer as follows:
C:\Users\account\Documents
C:\Users\account\Appdata\Local
C:\Users\account\Appdata\Local\Temp

HKLM\SOFTWARE\ErrorFix (Rogue.ErrorFix) -> No action taken.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Smart-Shopper (Adware.SmartShopper) -> No action taken.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Smart-Shopper (Adware.SmartShopper) -> No action taken.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{00A6FAF1-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} (Trojan.BHO) -> No action taken.
HKCR\CLSID\{00A6FAF1-072E-44cf-8957-5838F569A31D} (Trojan.BHO) -> No action taken.
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{00A6FAF1-072E-44CF-8957-5838F569A31D} (Trojan.BHO) -> No action taken.
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{00A6FAF1-072E-44CF-8957-5838F569A31D} (Trojan.BHO) -> No action taken.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{07B18EA1-A523-4961-B6BB-170DE4475CCA} (Trojan.BHO) -> No action taken.
HKCR\CLSID\{07B18EA1-A523-4961-B6BB-170DE4475CCA} (Trojan.BHO) -> No action taken.

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