What is this GorillaPrice? I can find it in my task manager and I don’t know what it is. Will this thing damage my computer? I don’t want my computer gets trouble. How do I check about that for sure? I’m a computer illiterate, don’t have too much knowledge on computer. If this thing is a bad thing for my computer, how can I get rid of it? Please help!
Brief Introduction to This Trojan
GorillaPrice, it is really hard for inexperienced computer users to distinguish what it is as it shows nothing remarkable on its names. It is classified as a Trojan horse infection that targets on computers with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 all around the world. Usually, cyber hackers distribute this virus from the Internet. They can hack into websites and take control of their servers. Once those servers get hacked by those bad guys, it can be the places for them to store this Trojan infection. So, when visitors come, this Trojan will be downloaded immediately as the computers can create cache files for every website that it visits, and this Trojan can pretend to be one of the cache files. Web pages, especially porn websites can be the main domains for hackers to attack.
Except spreading from the infected websites, this Trojan can even be sent to the innocent computer users through E-mail. Cyber hackers can adhere this Trojan to be a fake attachment and forge the E-mail coming from a legit place. The unreal title and content can cheat people put their trust in it and open the attachment in the E-mail which actually is the executable file of the Trojan. After clicking on the attachment, people will see nothing on the screen, but at the background, this Trojan is infiltrating the system. Trojan infection can be easily detected by anti-virus programs, however, what the most important thing is that whether the anti-virus has the ability to remove it completely from the infected computer. From our survey, it is not easy for anti-virus software to remove all the Trojans as the Trojans can be varied every day.
What’s worse, this GorillaPrice Trojan is able to corrupt the anti-virus as well as the computer system. It can disable the anti-virus from the windows registry so that the protection tool will not able to be activated from the start up. Also, the window firewall can be turned off for no good reason which can make the infected computer be compromised. In this case, the infected computer can be attacked by more other kinds of computer viruses and malware. With the help of this Trojan, cyber hackers can establish illegal access the infected computer without user’s permission. Once get connected, they can steal everything they want on the infected machine, generally, what they aim on is the financial information that saved on the infected computer. After they grasp the fiscal details they need, PC user will suffer money loss and can hardly get the money back.
Some Traits about This Trojan
-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can create many junk files which occupy a lot of space in hard drive
-Can download other malicious programs into computer, which make further damage.
-Your sensitive information can be stolen by hacker who can access to your computer with the help of this Trojan.
-Cay give you many redirects all the time no matter what you are doing.
-May pretend as an anti-virus program and cheat you that computer is in dangerous, and ask you to pay to remove the threats.
Conclusion
GorillaPrice is a fatal Trojan horse virus that attacks Windows machines. What it will bring to the infected computer is totally a disaster. It can infect some system files to make the whole system get unwanted problems. If this Trojan cannot be removed in time, the infected machine can get a complete crash.
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