Remove Popo. Description and removal instructions

Title: Popo
Type: Worms	Severity scale: (53 / 100)

Popo is a worm that spreads by copying itself to all fixed, removable and remote drives, CDs and ramdisks. Once executed, the parasite displays a fake error message and installs itself to the system. Popo searches for the Counter-Strike computer game, terminates its running processes and shuts down a compromised computer. The worm automatically runs on every Windows startup.

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Popo properties:
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

Automatic Popo removal:

remover for Popo

Popo manual removal:

Kill processes:
rundll.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Microsoft Service=rundll.exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\HideFileExt=1

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
rundll.exe

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
The rundll.exe file can be found in C:\Windows or C:\Winnt directory.

Other programs to remove Popo:

• Malwarebytes Anti Malware - Review - Download
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• Windows Defender - Review - Download

Information added: 16/11/05
Information updated: 16/11/05

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