Title: Win32/Yektel

Type: Trojans

Remove Win32/Yektel. Removal instructions

Also known as: Yektel, Trojan Yektel

Severity scale:

(30 / 100)

Win32/Yektel is a family of Trojans that displays misleading security alerts and notifications of malware infections to make you think that your computer is infected and to trick you into purchasing the rogue application that supposedly removes those infections. Yektel Trojans also modifies Internet Explorer and displays fake warnings. One of the fake warnings states:

This page is infected with malicious advertising code. Such code can seriously affect your computer. Click here to protect your computer with .

The trojan may also display a fake warning page instead of a requested web page as shown in [Figure 1].

[Figure 1. Fake Internet Explorer warning page]

Clicking on any of the links in the above message usually leads to a misleading web site that encourages prompts you to pay money to register a rogue security product. If you see such fake warnings and fake security alerts then your PC is likely infected with Trojan Yektel. Please use the removal guide below to remove this infection from your computer.

Win32/Yektel properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Shows commercial adverts
• Stays resident in background

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Win32/Yektel manual removal:

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Kill processes:
explorer32.exe ieupdates.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "\ieupdates.exe"
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "\explorer32.exe"
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "\winsrc.dll"
HKCR\CLSID\{037C7B8A-151A-49E6-BAED-CC05FCB50328}

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Unregister DLLs:
winsrc.dll

HELP:
how to unregister malicious DLLs

Information added: 2009-11-19 07:23:05
Information updated: 2009-11-19 07:24:02

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