How to remove GravityRAT trojan virus

Now we'll talk about GravityRAT, that infected the system, and you unwillingly assisted it to do so. This tool can call issues on your computer, and we earnestly recommend you to remove it as soon as you'll finish reading this item. The safest way to stop the Trojan infestation is to know how to distinguish viruses. In the very beginning, we should explain you the crucial things about Trojans. Trojans are the specific sort of viruses that is known for secrecy and multitasking, but isn't capable of solely infecting victim's PC. In fact, Trojans can't be called viruses, because viruses can multiply and independently infect systems. Trojans depend on people totally, at all times of their "life". The original host of young Trojan is its owner that grants it a form of a helpful tool and places it on cozy file-sharing website. Since then, the program is waiting until a gullible customer will download it and offer his services as a victim. One more crucial thing about Trojans is that most of the times they're being distributed with help of bundled installation, which means that they infest the machine in one package with few other viruses.

When Trojan finally finds a victim it starts to pursue its aims, which obviously means bad things for you and your computer. Trojan viruses are the largest sort of unwanted software, and might include your device in a botnet, scrounge your passwords or induce lots of problems with your PC. Here is a short enumeration of possible ways for using Trojan viruses:

Trojan programs, thanks to their stealthiness, are nearly perfect means for espionage. Trojan can dwell in an unprotected PC for years, collecting info about its owner, visited websites, passwords, accounts and, possibly, even the text entered via keyboard.

The less common manner of using Trojans is to make so-called botnets. Botnet is a web of thousands or at least hundreds of PC's, or some other "smart" devices, with which fraudsters are performing their illegal schemes. The multiplicity of actions is pretty wide: from DDoS attacks on any sites to large malspam campaigns, and it usually results in restrictions from Google for single IP address or the whole subnet.

All these ways of applying Trojan viruses can be carried out separately or at the same time. In addition to the written in the previous paragraphs major goals that directly give profit to swindlers, Trojans have multiple side effects: they use the resources of your PC, choke the system with useless programs and prevent the workstation from running for its primary function. Knowing this, you will listen to our tip and uninstall GravityRAT once and for all.

Removal instruction

Step 1. Boot the system into safe mode

Press Start

Type Msconfig and press Enter

Safe mode. Step 1

Select Boot tab

Safe mode. Step 2

Select Safe boot and press Ok

More information about Safe mode: What is Safe Mode and how to boot computer in Safe Mode

Step 2. Show all hidden files and folders

Press Start

Click on Control Panel

Select Appearance and Personalization

Click on Folder Options

Select View tab

Select Show hidden files, folders and drives

Press Ok

Step 3. Remove virus files

Check next folders to find suspicious files:

%TEMP%

%APPDATA%

%ProgramData%

Step 4. Fix hosts file

Go to %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\ folder

Open hosts file using Notepad or other text editor

Delete suspicious elements

Basic hosts file looks like this:

Step 5. Clean registry (for experienced users)

Click Start

Type Regedit.exe and press Enter

Clean startup registry keys

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE(HKEY_CURRENT_USER)\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE(HKEY_CURRENT_USER)\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE(HKEY_CURRENT_USER)\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE(HKEY_CURRENT_USER)\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServicesOnce

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Userinit

Step 6. Scan computer with antivirus

Here comes an easy and fast method to get rid of GravityRAT through Spyhunter AV program. This program will not only clear your device of any installed programs on it, but simultaneously shield it from further suchlike troubles. Spyhunter works in fully independent mode, and to uninstall some Trojans you will only have to buy the program, establish it and start it. We think that this manner is a priority, because it is difficult for a common customer to recognize which of the files in the system is dangerous. By removing the wrong file, you might seriously disrupt the computer, and provoke its critical fault. If you're not certain about Spyhunter, you can check it yourself by installing a test version.