How to Remove Trojan.FakeAlert

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I folowed the instructions to delete. I checked for bridge.dll but what the search found was axbridge.dll, is that an infected file? Thank You

I am so tired of people advising to download “FREE” programs and then in the end it doesn’t fix anything but wants your credit card number.

Combofix will pretty much get rid of it, depending on how many times you’ve clicked on ‘remove’ or ‘update’. The newer varients of fakealert now know what combofix is, and simply delete it.. boot in safe mode, and run a copy of the combofix.exe from somewhere else. Combofix is free, and should only be downloaded from bleepingcomputer.com. Go here to read about how to use it and how to get it: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix

I recently got a spam with attachment in my Hotmail inbox. Instead of opening it, I right-clicked and selected “view message source”. According to the what I read, this spam originated from Facebook claiming that my “passcode had been changed for security purposes”. And, that my new passcode was contained within the ZIP folder.

Also, even stranger yet, the email was never addressed to my email account; but instead, was addressed to someone else’s MSN account. To this very moment and day, I am still totally clueless of how I could have received someone else’s email in my inbox. That has never once happened to me before.

However, concerning this spam’s assertion that my Facebook password had somehow been changed, was total bullshit, as I do not have a Facebook account or any other account on any of the other anti-social networks. So, I knew this was some sort of bullshit or scam-spam.

So, I copied all the text to a notepad and saved it into special workbench folder that I created. Immediately after saving this text to the notepad, my AVG AV alerted me that text on the notepad was a ZIP folder, of which contained the installer of FakeAlert. Fortunately for me, I never opened the email, much less the ZIP folder that was attached to it.

Concerning the code on the notepad that I had saved, instead of letting AVG delete the file and storing it in the virus vault, I used my Spybot fileshredder to shred it 17 times, which is my personal standard for file shredding, in order to get rid of that notepad that I created.

Anyone who gets an email from an unknown source and opens it is just asking for trouble, regardless of what kinds of defenses you have fortified onto your computer. These spammers nowadays are sending out maleware as email attachments, so when you open your spam unwittingly, you will get zapped! Needless to say, I never make that mistake, as I use the internet in a highly controlled way; and, I know who all my email contacts are, as I don’t keep any virtual friends in cyberspace. All my personal friends are real, not virtual.

The internet is not a children’s toy, though many seem to use it like one.

I recently got a spam with attachment in my Hotmail inbox. Instead of opening it, I right-clicked and selected . According to the what I read, this spam originated from Facebook claiming that my “passcode had been changed for security purposes”. And, that my new passcode was contained within the ZIP folder.

Also, even stranger yet, the email was never addressed to my email account; but instead, was addressed to someone else’s MSN account. To this very moment and day, I am still totally clueless of how I could have received someone else’s email in my inbox. That has never once happened to me before.

However, concerning this spam’s assertion that my Facebook password had somehow been changed, was total bullshit, as I do not have a Facebook account or any other account on any of the other anti-social networks. So, I knew this was some sort of bullshit or scam-spam.

So, I copied all the text to a notepad and saved it into special workbench folder that I created. Immediately after saving this text to the notepad, my AVG AV alerted me that text on the notepad was a ZIP folder, of which contained the installer of FakeAlert. Fortunately for me, I never opened the email, much less the ZIP folder that was attached to it.

Concerning the code on the notepad that I had saved, instead of letting AVG delete the file and storing it in the virus vault, I used my Spybot fileshredder to shred it 17 times, which is my personal standard for file shredding, in order to get rid of that notepad that I created.

Anyone who gets an email from an unknown source and opens it is just asking for trouble, regardless of what kinds of defenses you have fortified onto your computer. These spammers nowadays are sending out maleware as email attachments, so when you open your spam unwittingly, you will get zapped! Needless to say, I never make that mistake, as I use the internet in a highly controlled way; and, I know who all my email contacts are, as I don’t keep any virtual friends in cyberspace. All my personal friends are real, not virtual.

The internet is not a children’s toy, though many seem to use it like one.

Often you cannot open spyware doctor. You need to dowload ‘rkill’ it will stop the processes and allow you to open spyware doctor.

Malwarebytes Antimalware will remove it, but not if it’s been on your pc for too long. Once it’s “installed” fully, the only real way to get rid of it is to format your pc and do a clean reinstall of your OS. It’s a b**ch to remove after too long. Even if you think you’ve removed it, it has a sneaky way of still causing problems. Also, sometimes even after a successful removal, it has caused too much damage and you’ll need to reinstall your OS anyway. Make sure you’ve updated the defs on Malwarebytes BEFORE each scan.

I have the Trojan.FakeAlert virus. Every website I go to it says blocked “Warning, Visiting this site may harm your computer” I downloaded Spydoctor and did a scan and it said I had this virus. I tried to get rid of it manually because I did not want to download anything else into my computer. However I could not find any of dll. files. Please help..

I have maleware on my computer and the fake alert will not let me open it nor will it let me restore back in time…. could it be more than a fake alert.. any suggestions anyone… help!! I really don’t want to go through the process that is listed here for fear that I may mess something up!!

I had the same problem. I restored my computer to an earlier date, ran malwarebytes (free personal edition) full scan again, and it solved it.

Malwarebytes anti-malware did remove the virus but now my Modem does not get installed. Any idea?

Will Spybot clean this Trojan.FakeAlert or am I wasting my time trying.

I was pointed to malwarebytes from a major antivirus discussion board. For some reason, the top three paid products did not find it. I echo above, the free personal version is your best bet, I spent hours, this took 45 minutes for a full scan of 4 drives, malwarebytes took care of the problem

Boot into safe mode.

run msconfig

uncheck the box with just numbers

goto user/application data/

delete the same file with the numbers

reboot……….. Works for me.

The how to delete process re typing Trojan.fakealertfile produced no files to delete.

For the Trojan.FakeAlert the best solution so far is using Malwarebytes application. I recommend malwarebytes for removal of this trojan because of the ease of use and the best is its free (for personal use only) :)

I went through and deleted all the files I could find…and I never found any of the .dll files? So I couldn’t unregister them. My spyware/virusware detects nothing, yet my IE still gives me virus messages and pops ups. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Vanessa

will the removal instructions in this article work for FakeAlert-CD?
If I do a system restore to the day before I received the trojan, will taht work?
Please help me, I need by computer to find a job and cannot afford a new one.

My computer has recently been randomly shutting off during the windows loading screen. I can only use my computer in safe mode, and when I run Spy Hunter and it finds several of the FakeAlert files. Well whenever it is done I clean it off and restart it, but my os still doesnt load and my laptop just dies…

Hey, Eddie

This is probably the quickest fix: if you already have SpyHunter, call their support team for a custom fix. That’s why I recommend SpyHunter — they’ve got live support that should get rid of almost anything.

Let me know how else I can help.

I have a Trojan.FakeAlert file that I found using SpyHunter. But I can’t seem to delete the file; it just tells me that access is denied. I’ve tried using ‘regedit’ and ‘cmd’ in the command prompt, to no success. It’s annoying because I believe it’s the very thing responsible for the red circle with the white X in my taskbar, which pops up to tell me that my computer is infected. Any advice on how to delete this irksome file? It’s not a DLL file or registry key, apparently, but a .exe file (the icon looks like a Windows window). Please help!

Thanks.

P. S. I’d very much prefer to delete this without having to install any spyware removal tools. I already used AdAware before, and I have SpyHunter. I just want to get rid of this abomination once and for all!

Hey james.
When I got this Trojan, it attacked with several other viruses. I was just about ready to pull my hair out because it kept backing itself up and reinstalling files at different intervals. The problem was that I couldn’t find it. =/
Have you tried using Malwarebytes anti-malware? It’s seemingly worked for my computer.
What have you got to lose, it’s free if you use the home version! =D

I have the Trojan.FakeAlert virus. Its made it impossible to access the internet as the machine goes crazy with pop ups. I’ve installed spyhunter 3 and payed for the full version but this is unable to delete it. I also have a number of errors on start up and I constanly get ‘work offline’ messages as the computer is trying to access the internet. I am lost at how to get rid of it. I was advised by the support at enigma software (Spyhunter 3) to repair windows using the instilation disk. This did not work either. Any advice would be great!