Manual Guide To Delete Magala Safely From Contaminated Windows PC

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Magala is a nasty malware belongs to the family of Trojan horse which is especially programmed by the criminal hackers in order to gather profit from their operators. It is responsible for connecting infected Windows machine with a botnet and force them to click on a specific or displayed pop-up advertisements. It is a kind of Trojan Clicker virus that are used by the con artists to mislead PC users into clicking on displayed adverts, sponsored search results and promotion through affected machines. Based on the research report, Magala was discovered in the second week of July, 2017. As stated above, the malware force users to click on ads to collect revenue. However, the computer users who didn't implement regular updates for the programs already installed on their machine may infect their system with such sort of malicious virus.

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How Does Magala Trojan Clicker Work?

According to the cyber security analysts, the cyber offenders behind Magala malware are known to exploit the vulnerabilities into the famous web browsers installed on user's machine, such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Mozilla FF, MS Edge and others as well as the plug-ins like Adobe Flash and Java. It allows the hackers to spread this dangerous virus to many targeted computer and then create a botnet of affected systems. After it successfully infiltrates the Windows computer, it creates a virtual desktop space and then displayed it to the user's system screen. Although, it is important to understand that the threat requires integration with popular web browser i.e. IE version 8 and above.

In case, if Magala does not able to find an appropriate version of Internet Explorer, then it would delete itself from the affected system and remove its traces onto the computer. Depth-analysis on this Trojan revealed that the threat is responsible for downloading and installing a toolbar notified as “Maps Galaxy Toolbar” promoted on Free.mapsgalaxy.com developed by Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. After that, it modifies the system registry entries in order to load a specific website which is reported as “hxxp://hp.myway.com/mapsgalaxy/ttab02/index.html” to load as a default homepage and search engine for the installed browsers.

Magala : Generate Revenue For Its Creators

Moreover, the Trojan uses the services of MyWay search which promotes a browser toolbar that can be easily found Int.search.myway.com website. The core functionality of Magala is to exploit the working principle of Mindspark which collect revenue via pay-per-click and pay-per-view from their advertisers by misleading web surfers to use its domain as their default search provider. It also connects the affected machine with a 'Command and Control' server and then downloads a file with search terms usually monetized by MyWay. Hence, you should stay away from this infection and if your PC has already been affected by Magala, then you need to take immediate action for its complete removal.

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Steps to Delete Magala

Step: 1 Restart your Windows PC in Safe Mode

Find the complete details on how to Reboot your PC in Safe Mode (if you are a novice, follow the above given instructions on how to boot up your PC in Safe mode irrespective of the Windows Version that is being used as Windows XP, 7, Win 8, 8.1 and Windows 10)

Step:2 Remove Magala from Task Manager

Press CTRL+ALT+DEL simulataneously to open Task manager. Find Magala Related processes or any other suspicious processes that are running on it. Now Select and delete Magala virus from Task Manager at once.

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Step:3 How to Delete Magala Related Startup Items

Press Win + R together and Type “msconfig”.

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Now press Enter Key or Select OK.

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Startup” option is to be selected on the Pop-up Window Tab

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Now Search for Magala Related applications on Startup Items

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Now Uncheck all Unknown or Suspicious items from “System Configuration” related to Magala

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Now Click and Select Restart to Start your Computer in Normal Mode

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Step: 4 How to Delete Magala from Windows Registry

  1. Press Win + R in combination to Open Run Box, Type regedit on the search box and press enter.
  2. This will Open the registry entries.
  3. Find Magala related entries from the list and carefully delete it. However be careful and do not delete any other entries as this could severely damage the Windows Component.

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Also, after completing the above steps, it is important to search for any folders and files that has been created by Magala and if found must be deleted.

Step 5 How to View Hidden Files and Folders Created by Magala

  1. Click on the Start Menu
  2. Go to Control Panel, and Search for folder Options
  3. Click on view hidden files and folders Options, For your convenience, we have included complete process on how to unhide files on all Windows Version. This will delete all the files and folders associated with Magala that was existing on your compromised system.

Still, if you are unable to get rid of Magala using manual steps, you need to scan your PC to detect Magala.

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Don’t forget to submit your questions or any other queries if you have and get complete solution from our Expert’s Panel. Good Luck!

 

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