A new malicious Trojan virus Trojan.Godzilla Loader has been detected two days ago and founded in various part of the cyber world. Its main objective is to conceal data and information of the victims and send to their servers of their developers.
Trojan.Godzilla Loader Steal Information From Target Victims’ Financial Information
An another info stealer Trojan Trojan.Godzilla Loader is a new creation of malware developers. It carrying a corrupted office Macros which once activated then it runs the executables of Godzilla Loader files on the system using their malicious servers that is controlled by their makers. It is a new Bot code which has been put for sale in the last year May 2016 on some of the Russian underground websites. Till now it has been used to infect various users systems with the infections of Dridex, Trickbot or Panda banking Trojans. The cyber criminals uses it in the campaigns which is run to collect the users information about their online banking solutions and their financial institutions. The spam email contains following contents which is following :
- From – [spooked/ fake return address]
- Subject – Income Tax Return Notice
- Attached – 8.doc
When you open this attachment on the system then it generate following PowerShell command which is responsible for downloading and installing this Trojan.Godzilla Loader on your system. The command is :
Damaging activities produced by Trojan.Godzilla Loader
The infection loader has been dropped as "AplicationData.exe" and then it run it as a logged in user. Once this Trojan.Godzilla Loader intruded on your system then it automatically connected with their Command and control servers to send the collected financial or system activities and some other sensitive and confidential information to their makers to use it into illegal processes. Thats why you should always keep you PC at minimum privileges to safe from the easy access by anyone. You should also turn off the feature of Autoplay or auto execution of new programs on the PC. It may damage your system be making several changes into your system settings and browser settings. It highly uses your PC resources into malicious processes that is responsive for the slow execution or performance degradation. So you should use a strong anti-malware to remove Trojan.Godzilla Loader from the system.
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Manual Trojan.Godzilla Loader Removal Guide
Step 1: How to Start your PC in Safe Mode with Networking to Get Rid of Trojan.Godzilla Loader
(For Win 7 | XP | Vista Users)
- first of all PC is to be rebooted in Safe Mode with Networking
- Select on Start Button and Click on Shutdown | Restart option and select OK
- when the PC restarts, keep tapping on F8 until you don’t get Advanced Boot Options.
- Safe Mode with Networking Option is to be selected from the list.
(For Win 8 | 8.1 | Win 10 Users)
- Click on Power Button near Windows Login Screen
- Keep Shift Button on the keyboard pressed and select Restart Option
- Now Select on Enable Safe Mode with Networking Option
In case Trojan.Godzilla Loader, is not letting your PC to Start in Safe Mode, then following Step is to followed
Step 2: Remove Trojan.Godzilla Loader Using System Restore Process
- PC need to be rebooted to Safe Mode with Command Prompt
- As soon as Command Prompt Window appear on the screen, select on cd restore and press on Enter option
Type rstrui.exe and Click on Enter again.
Now users need to Click on Next option and Choose restore point that was the last time Windows was working fine prior to Trojan.Godzilla Loader infection. Once done, Click on Next button.
Select Yes to Restore your System and get rid of Trojan.Godzilla Loader infection.
However, if the above steps does not work to remove Trojan.Godzilla Loader, follow the below mentioned steps
Step:3 Unhide All Hidden Files and Folders to Delete Trojan.Godzilla Loader
How to View Trojan.Godzilla Loader Hidden Folders on Windows XP
- In order to show the hidden files and folders, you need to follow the given instructions:-
- Close all the Windows or minimize the opened application to go to desktop.
- Open “My Computer” by double-clicking on its icon.
- Click on Tools menu and select Folder options.
- Click on the View tab from the new Window.
- Check the Display contents of the system folders options.
- In the Hidden files and folders section, you need to put a check mark on Show hidden files and folders option.
- Click on Apply and then OK button. Now, close the Window.
- Now, you can see all the Trojan.Godzilla Loader related hidden files and folders on the system.
How to Access Trojan.Godzilla Loader Hidden folders on Windows Vista
- Minimize or close all opened tabs and go to Desktop.
- Go to the lower left of your screen, you will see Windows logo there, click on Start button.
- Go to Control Panel menu and click on it.
- After Control Panel got opened, there will two options, either “Classic View” or “Control Panel Home View”.
- Do the following when you are in “Classic View”.
- Double click on the icon and open Folder Options.
- Choose View tab.
- Again move to step 5.
- Do the following if you are “Control Panel Home View”.
- Hit button on Appearance and Personalization link.
- Chose Show Hidden Files or Folders.
- Under the Hidden File or Folder section, click on the button which is right next to the Show Hidden Files or Folders.
- Click on Apply button and then hit OK. Now, close the window.
- Now, to show you all hidden files or folders created by Trojan.Godzilla Loader, you have successfully considered Windows Vista.
How to Unhide Trojan.Godzilla Loader Created Folders on Windows 7
1. Go to the desktop and tap on the small rectangle which is located in the lower-right part of the system screen.
2. Now, just open the “Start” menu by clicking on the Windows start button which is located in the lower-left side of the PC screen that carries the windows logo.
3. Then after, look for the “Control Panel” menu option in the right-most row and open it.
4. When the Control Panel menu opens, then look for the “Folder Options” link.
5. Tap over the “View tab”.
6. Under the “Advanced Settings” category, double click on the “Hidden Files or Folders” associated with Trojan.Godzilla Loader.
7. Next, just select the check-box in order to Show hidden files, folders, or drives.
8. After this, click on “Apply” >> “OK” and then close the menu.
9. Now, the Windows 7 should be configured to show you all hidden files, folders or drives.
Steps to Unhide Trojan.Godzilla Loader related Files and Folders on Windows 8
- First of all, power on your Windows PC and click on start logo button that is found in left side of the system screen.
- Now, move to program lists and select control panel app.
- When Control panel is open completely, click on more settings option.
- After, you will see a Control panel Window and then you choose “Appearance and Personalization” tab.
- In Advance settings dialogue box, you need to tick mark on Show hidden files and folders and clear the check box for Hide protected system files.
- Click on Apply and Ok button. This apply option helps you to detect and eradicate all types of Trojan.Godzilla Loader related suspicious files.
- Finally, navigate your mouse cursor on close option to exit this panel.
How to View Trojan.Godzilla Loader associated folders on Windows 10
1. Open the folder if you wish to unhide files.
2. Search and Click on View in Menu bar
3. In Menu click on to view folder options.
4. Again click on View and Enable Radio Button associated with Show hidden files created by Trojan.Godzilla Loader, folder and drive.
5. Press apply and OK.
Step 4: Press Start Key along with R- copy + paste the below stated command and Click on OK
notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts
- This will open up a new file, in case if your system has been hacked, some IP’s will be shown at the bottom of the screen
Click on the Start Menu, Input “Control Panel” in the search box —> Select. Network and Internet —> Network and Sharing Center —> Next Change Adapter Settings. Right-click your Internet connection —> Select on Properties.
- In case if you find Suspicious IP in the local host –or if you are finding it difficult and have any problem then submit question to us and we will be happy to help you.