Help please! Yesterday my kids were playing a game on my computer and then something popped up to ask them to install, then they really do is as it instructed. And today when start up my computer and then antivirus pops up a warning alert telling my computer is infected with Win32/Nuqel.E virus. What can I do? Now I feel I cannot smoothly use Internet Explorer and computer seems run a bit slower. And I wonder if the antivirus loses ability to provide any virus protection, because antivirus cannot deal with this virus.
Win32/Nuqel.E Virus Description:
When you see antivirus pops up warning alert about Win32/Nuqel.E virus, which means this virus has been into your system. This virus has been classified as vicious and infectious Trojan horse to compromise windows computer worldwide. It comes to your computer via many ways. For example, it will stay on virus-infected websites which may provide free game, gambling, and porn video and so on, and then if you watch the video or open something, this Trojan virus will automatically comes. Also in those websites, this Trojan horse may show in a form of flash picture or attractive ads banner to attract you to click on. Besides, there may be some fake software updating message or fake computer security warning popping up from those malicious websites to ask you to make an update as it requires, an did you trust that and do what it instructs, then this Trojan virus comes into your machine. In addition, cyber criminals can insert Win32/Nuqel.E virus into those free software and spread online to infect computer without users’ permission. In order to prevent it from entering into computer, you need to choose customized installation but not the default one, so that you can get rid of the additional apps that you don’t want. Win32/Nuqel.E virus can get into your computer through many ways, and please be careful when you perform activities online.
Once Win32/Nuqel.E virus gets into your computer, it will perform many evil activities to damage your computer. It can modify system settings, important system files, start-up items or registry editor in order to make system more vulnerable and introduce other malwares. So it can be also called backdoor infection. If you cannot remove this virus timely once you find it on your machine. Gradually, it may insert its spiteful extension as a code to disorder system. So Win32/Nuqel.E virus changes or disables system windows important files or programs. In this case, many bad consequences will happen. For example, you cannot run some program because an error message pops up and blocks you like ‘A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.’ Sometimes you may find many strange shortcuts on the desktop but cannot be removed. What’s worse, this virus can easily introduce those rogue antivirus programs to infect computer to give you fake computer warning alert to scare you and next ask you to pay money for a fake antivirus. Anyway, due to Win32/Nuqel.E virus, computer will become weaker and its security will be in a worse state. To remove it soon is a wise action to protect computer.
Some Traits about Win32/Nuqel.E Virus
-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can create many junk files which occupy a lot of space in hard drive.
-Can download other malicious programs into computer, which make further damage.
-Can redirect you to pages you don’t want all the time no matter what you are doing.
-Take a long time to turn on or shut down your computer
-Your sensitive information can be stolen by hacker who can access to your computer with the help of this Trojan.
-May pretend as an anti-virus program and cheat you that computer is in dangerous, and ask you to pay to remove the threats.
Removal Guide for PCs with Windows OS
There is a removal guide of Trojan provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.
>>>>>> Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc keys simultaneously to get the Task Manager to stop the active processes of Win32/Nuqel.E virus. To do this, you will need to click the “Processes” tag at the top then find out suspicious processes and right click on them and select “End Process”.
>>>>>> Click “Start” menu at the lower left corner and type “regedit” in the search programs and files box and press Enter key. Then you will open the “Registry Editor”.
>>>>>> You will need to find out the suspicious registry files in the Registry Editor, They are usually located in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE. You need to distinguish them from their “Name” and “Data” at the right column. All of them will be randomly distributed. If you are not good at this, ask for an expert for help.
>>>>>> After you find out the suspicious registry files, you need to find out where the .exe files of the virus locate. Usually, they will be in the operating system drive. To open it, you will need to click Start menu > Computer & My computer. Generally speaking, the Operating System drive is Local Disk
>>>>>> Basically speaking, all the related files of Win32/Nuqel.E virus will be located in Windows > System32. Find out all the files of the Trojan virus and delete them. Make sure that all the files you deleted are viruses, but not the files of the operating system. Any mistakes will cause data loss even system crash.
Summary:
Win32/Nuqel.E virus can severely attack your computer once it gets on your PC. It corrupts your system files, weakens the security level of the infected computer and modifies all your key registry settings as well as disables your firewall because of its root-kit. The CPU usage percentage will become higher than before, which will cause constant blue or black screen death and system freeze. this Trojan virus helps cyber criminals remotely control the infected PC. So hackers can do anything on your PC and get any information from your computer or by tracking your online history. And users’ personal information like credit card, bank account details, log-in passwords or other financial information could be leaked out. Victims of this Win32/Nuqel.E virus will suffer from financial loss. This Trojan must be removed as fast as possible to avoid further damages if you detect this nasty thing on your computer.
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