Geost botnet Removal Effective Tutorial Guide (Remove Malware Virus)

Geost botnet : Another Botnet That Mainly Targeted Android Users

 

Over the Internet, there are hundreds of Android botnet that targets Android users and Geost botnet is one of them. It is been identified as the most powerful botnet that has been mainly spotted for targeting the Russian citizens. Yes, it is true. It's campaigns has been carried out on Russian Federation territory to target the 5 Russian banks. Since, Android OS is one of the most popular OS these days, so it aims to target Android devices. Upon the in-depth analysis, experts revealed that it has targeted over 800,000 PCs.

Infection Vectors of Geost botnet

Geost botnet is really a deadly, vicious and dangerous ransomware infection that uses several deceptive methods to propagate inside the PCs. It's developers mainly uses the bogus and deceptive applications to distribute this malware. The dubious software which is used to distribute such a malware are mainly appeared to be banking applications and the fake social media site. It's related or fraudulent applications can be easily found on the 3rd-party application stores of Android which are too much popular in Russia. As per the cybersecurity researchers report, Geost botnet are over the 200 bogus applications.

Unique Facts of Geost botnet

Geost botnet belongs to the botnet family but it has some special characteristics which makes it differ from other botnet. It has been created by ill minded actors with wrong and the evil intention. The con artists of this botnet are mainly known for employing HtBot malware to turn compromised as well as infected hosts into the proxy servers. It doesn't encrypt communication between network and the Command & Control server of hackers. According to the researchers, users can easily spy on traffic and gather detail regarding botnet's capabilities and the activity.

Get Familiar With The Capabilities of Geost botnet

After proliferating inside the PCs, Geost botnet is capable to conduct series of notorious actions, some of the most common are :

• Able to read and gather text messages of victim.
• Ensures to delete almost all evidence from device.
• Develop lots of malicious threats to target Android devices.
• Gathers all personal data and endangers user's privacy.
• Degrades overall performance speed by eating up too much resources.
• Opens backdoor secretly and permit attackers to access PC remotely etc.

Apart from these, there are thousand of damages might caused by this botnet. So, you must take an immediate action to delete Geost botnet from compromised machine immediately, if you really want to keep your Android device and data safe for longer time.

 

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How to Remove Geost botnet from Compromised PC (Manual Steps)

(This guide is intended to help users in following Step by Step instructions in making Windows Safe)

The first step which need to be followed is to Restart Windows PC in Safe Mode

Reboot in Safe Mode (For Windows XP | Vista | Win7)

1. Restart Computer
2. Tap on F8 continuously when the PC starts booting and select the option to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

For Windows 8/8.1

1. Press on the Start Button and then Choose Control Panel from the menu option
2. Users need to opt for System and Security, to select Administrative Tools and then System Configuration.

3.  Next, Click on the Safe Boot option and then choose OK, this will open a pop-up window, next Select Restart Option.

For Windows 10

1. Start Menu is to be selected to Open it
2. Press the power button icon which is present in the right corner, this will display power options menu.
3. Keeping the SHIFT Key pressed on the keyboard, select the restart option. This will reboot Win 10
4. Now you need to select the Troubleshoot icon, followed by advanced option in the startup Settings. Click on Restart. This will give the option to reboot, now select Enter Safe Mode with Networking.

Step 2. Uninstall Geost botnet from Task Manager on Windows

How to End the Running Process related to Geost botnet using Task Manager

1. Firstly, Open Task Manager by Pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc in Combination
2. Next, Click on processes to Find Geost botnet
3. Now Click and select End Process to terminate Geost botnet.

Step3: How to Uninstall Geost botnet from Control Panel on Windows

for Win XP| Vista and Win 7 Users

1. Click and Select on Start Menu
2. Now Control Panel is to be selected from the list
3. Next Click on Uninstall Program
4. Users need to Choose suspicious program related to Geost botnet and right clicking on it.
5. Finally, Select Uninstall option.

For Win 8

• Click and Select “Charms bar”
• Now Select Settings Option
• Next Click on Control Panel
• Select on Uninstall a Program Option and right click on program associated to Geost botnet and finally uninstall it.

For Windows 10

1. The first Step is to Click and Select on Start Menu
2. Now Click on All Apps
3. Choose Geost botnet and other suspicious program from the complete list
4. Now right Click on to select Geost botnet and finally Uninstall it from Windows 10

Step: 4 How to Delete Geost botnet Created Files from Registry

• Open Registry by Typing Regedit in the Windows Search Field and then press on Enter.
• This will open the registry entries. Now users need to press CTRL + F together and type Geost botnet to find the entries.
• Once located, delete all Geost botnet named entries. If you are unable to find it, you need to look up for it on the directories manually. Be careful and delete only Geost botnet entries, else it can damage your Windows Computer severely.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—–Random Directory. 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—Microsoft—-Windows—CurrentVersion—Run– Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER—-Software—Microsoft—Internet Explorer—-Main—- Random

Still having any problem in getting rid of Geost botnet, or have any doubt regarding this, feel free to ask our experts.