A Complete Guide To Delete GAMEFISH (Remove Malware Virus)

Researchers Report On GAMEFISH

 

GAMEFISH is a tool belongs to a most popular hacking group Fancy Bear which also known as Advanced Persistent Threat28 (APT) and Sofacy. Some of the security researchers are also identified this tool as Downrage. Fancy Bear has been believed to be mainly originated from the Russia. It has been active on Internet since 2004 which means it is not a new one. The con artist or creator of this tool is created and promoted it as a useful one for user machine but it actually it is a tool used by hackers to target the high profile political.

Brief Analysis View On GAMEFISH
Name	GAMEFISH
Promoted As	System Tool
Category	Malware, Trojan
Belongs To	Fancy Bear
Risk Impact
Infection Length	Always varies
Related	Trojan.Generic.123298, JS:Trojan.JS.Downloader.PZ, Trojan.Doc.Downloader.ASL etc.
Description	GAMEFISH is another tool created by cyber hackers to victimized large number of PCs.
Deletion	Possible, regarding the successful deletion of GAMEFISH, victim's must try Windows Scanner Tool.

Transmission Tendencies of GAMEFISH

GAMEFISH belongs to the worst Trojan category that follows various invasive and intrusive method to penetrate inside the machine. But mainly, it ends up on your machine when you will receive a suspicious email with the misleading alert that instruct user to open the suspicious attachment. Besides spam campaigns, it may also compromise your machine via malicious ads, pirated software, Peer-to-peer resources, contaminated devices and many more. The creator of such a malware tool always changes it's way to attack machine but mainly distributed through Internet. So, be attentive while performing any online operation.

Reasons For Deleting GAMEFISH Immediately

Since GAMEFISH belongs to Fancy Bear group, so most of the experts believed that it is linked to Russian Government and operating to the Russian interests. It is one of the big scale operation of Fancy Bear that attack against the French political actors before presidential elections in the France in year 2018. Generally, it is used in first stage of a cyber attack as its features such as ability to gather the system as well as network data regarding infected host and then forwarded it to cyber hackers. It is capable to cause lots of damages on targeted machine. So, the deletion of GAMEFISH is highly recommended from compromised machine.

Notorious Actions of GAMEFISH

• Capable of receiving several commands.
• Drops too much malicious threat on compromised machine.
• Degrades overall working speed of System and network.
• Exploits Computer vulnerabilities and make targeted machine vulnerable.
• Ruins the targeted machine badly.
• Automatically modifies user's crucial setting without user's awareness and much more.

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Manual GAMEFISH Removal Guide

Step 1: How to Start your PC in Safe Mode with Networking to Get Rid of GAMEFISH

(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 GAMEFISH, is not letting your PC to Start in Safe Mode, then following Step is to followed

Step 2: Remove GAMEFISH 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 GAMEFISH infection. Once done, Click on Next button.

Select Yes to Restore your System and get rid of GAMEFISH infection.

However, if the above steps does not work to remove GAMEFISH, follow the below mentioned steps

Step:3  Unhide All Hidden Files and Folders to Delete GAMEFISH

How to View GAMEFISH Hidden Folders on Windows XP

1. In order to show the hidden files and folders, you need to follow the given instructions:-
2. Close all the Windows or minimize the opened application to go to desktop.
3. Open “My Computer” by double-clicking on its icon.
4. Click on Tools menu and select Folder options.
5. Click on the View tab from the new Window.
6. Check the Display contents of the system folders options.
7. In the Hidden files and folders section, you need to put a check mark on Show hidden files and folders option.
8. Click on Apply and then OK button. Now, close the Window.
9. Now, you can see all the GAMEFISH related hidden files and folders on the system.

How to Access GAMEFISH Hidden folders on Windows Vista

1. Minimize or close all opened tabs and go to Desktop.
2. Go to the lower left of your screen, you will see Windows logo there, click on Start button.
3. Go to Control Panel menu and click on it.
4. After Control Panel got opened, there will two options, either “Classic View” or “Control Panel Home View”.
5. Do the following when you are in “Classic View”.
6. Double click on the icon and open Folder Options.
7. Choose View tab.
8. Again move to step 5.
9. Do the following if you are “Control Panel Home View”.
10. Hit button on Appearance and Personalization link.
11. Chose Show Hidden Files or Folders.
12. Under the Hidden File or Folder section, click on the button which is right next to the Show Hidden Files or Folders.
13. Click on Apply button and then hit OK. Now, close the window.
14. Now, to show you all hidden files or folders created by GAMEFISH, you have successfully considered Windows Vista.

How to Unhide GAMEFISH 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 GAMEFISH.

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 GAMEFISH related Files and Folders on Windows 8

1. First of all, power on your Windows PC and click on start logo button that is found in left side of the system screen.
2. Now, move to program lists and select control panel app.
3. When Control panel is open completely, click on more settings option.
4. After, you will see a Control panel Window and then you choose “Appearance and Personalization” tab.
5. 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.
6. Click on Apply and Ok button. This apply option helps you to detect and eradicate all types of GAMEFISH related suspicious files.
7. Finally, navigate your mouse cursor on close option to exit this panel.

How to View GAMEFISH 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 GAMEFISH, 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.