remove spyware: PlayTopus Removal Guide

Monday, August 11, 2014

PlayTopus Removal Guide

What is PlayTopus? PlayTopus is what's known as a "rogue antivirus" tool, which has been designed with the sole intention of trying to scam you into buying false products online. This is essentially a virus which will install itself on your PC, and then proceed to heckle you into purchasing the full version of the software. Although this virus is extremely annoying, it's also potentially damaging to your computer as well, as it will often install a series of "key logger" programs onto your PC which will log your details and Internet activity. Complete removal of this software is paramount if you want to maintain security and the integrity of your system.
PlayTopus is known as a dangerous Trojan virus. Classified as the most destructive group in the computer virus family Win64/zaccess.fo, Trojan virus is one kind of stubborn and nasty virus that can bring fatal damage to your computer. Just like the ZeroAccess rootkit virus, this virus spreads fast through the Internet lately. Win64 ZAccess.a Virus is designed and created by dangerous hackers and become a crime tool by which the hackers can make money or achieve their evil motivation. This destructive virus can sneak into your computer and hides there when you visit illegal websites such as pornographic or violent sites, a behavior of downloading free software or attachment from spam emails may lead to the infection as well. This malicious virus acts rather trickily inside your computer and it’s so stubborn that most of the antivirus can found it out by scanning but none of them are able to have it removed from your system completely. Remove PlayTopus using manual method

1. Boot your infected computer into Safe Mode with Networking Win xp/vista/win 7: Restart your computer and keep pressing F8 key before Windows launches.

Use the arrow keys to select the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then hit ENTER key to continue.

Start and login the infected computer until you see the desktop. Press the Ctrl+ Alt+ Del combination key, the Switch User interface will pop-up.

Always hold down the "Shift" key on the keyboard and at the same time click on "Shut down" button once on the bottom right corner of the page. You will get three options there: Sleep, Shut down and Restart. Click on Restart option. The next window says ‘Choose an Option’ screen, and then you need to select "Troubleshoot". On the troubleshoot page click on ‘Advanced Options’. In the following window choose ‘startup settings’. Choose ‘restart’, and then wait for a minute. Windows will automatically display Safe mode options. At last press F5/5 key to highlight "Safe Mode with Networking" option, hit Enter key as well. Later after that, Windows 8 Operating system will be booted up in safe mode with networking. 2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc combination to open Windows Task Manager and end suspicious processes. If it does not work, please click the Start button, click the Run option, input taskmgr and press OK. The Windows Task Manager should be open.

3. Show all hidden files and clean all the harmful files created by PlayTopus. Click the Start menu and choose Control Panel, select Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.

In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and check Show hidden files, folders, and drives under Hidden files and folders category.

Delete all malicious files about this infection as below: %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe %Temp%\random.exe %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~random %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll4. Remove malicious registry entries related to PlayTopus.

vido Wizard

Open Registry Editor by pressing Win+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then inputting regedit and pressing Enter.)

Delete all possibly corrupt registry keys as follows:

remove registry vido Wizard

Remove PlayTopus using SpyHunter anti-malware (Recommended) SpyHunter is a world-famous anti-virus program as well as protection tool, designed to detect and remove all traces of malware, including Trojans, worms, rootkits, rogue viruses, browser hijacker, ransomware, adware, key-loggers, and more. It is of great importance to note that SpyHunter Anti-malware works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts. It scans the computer quickly and does not slow down the computer.

Step 1: Click here Download Spyhunter. click "save fiel" botton download the SpyHunter setup file. spyhunter-download11.png