How to Remove / Uninstall Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC

Infected with Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC? Anti-virus programs cannot deal with it? You will get all your answers from this passage, and learn to remove Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC.

What Is Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC?

Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC is not only a combination of numbers and letters, but a name of a dangerous Trojan virus. It comes from unknown places but hacked web sites, spam email attachments, or share programs are the sources in most of the cases. Malicious files and registry entries are injected to your system. It changes its files names and locations. What is worse, it changes programs’ and system’s files names. System is messed up, and programs cannot run properly as this matter. Startup items will be changed once it comes so that it can be activated with the system booting.

Further Problems Caused by Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC

Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC is able to mess up your system running totally. Computer shuts down and restarts automatically, and blue screen problem happen randomly. Users may get malicious ads pop-ups, or are redirected to unknown web sites from any places. Programs run weirdly because files are damaged. The most dangerous property of Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC is that it can open backdoors on the infected computer, and connects the infected computer to a remote server. Other viruses can sneak into the compromised computer easily through the backdoors, and hackers and cyber criminals can take control of your computer via the remote server. Users’ private information stored in your computer can be stolen by hackers for evil purpose in this way.

How Can I Remove Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC?

Solution one：manually remove Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC from your PC.

Before performing the manual removal of Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC reboot your computer and before Windows interface loads, press F8 key constantly. Choose "Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.

1. Launch the Task Manager by pressing keys Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time, search for Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC processes and right-click to end them.

2. Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options. When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, check Show hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

3. Tap Windows+R keys together to pop up the Run box, type in regedit and hit OK to open Registry Editor; then find out the following Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC registry entries and delete:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\ win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC

4. Get rid of the listed files created by Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC:

%User Profile%\Local Settings\Temp
%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC
C:\Program Files\ win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC\license.rtf

5. Disable suspicious startup items.

For Windows Xp: Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the Run box -> click Ok to open the System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated.
For Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu->type msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items generated.

Solution two: automatically remove Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC with SpyHunter.

Step one: download SpyHunter on the computer by clicking on the icon below.

Step two: install SpyHunter on your computer step by step.

Step three: after the installation, do a full scanning to find out those malicious files related to Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC.

Step four: restart the computer, and then run a full scanning again to check whether all unfamiliar files have been deleted.

Important Notes: Although we offer you two different measures to remove Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC, but manual removal is too complicated to handle for most of the users. In order to minimize errors, we highly recommend SpyHunter to you. SpyHunter is a powerful anti-virus application, which not only can remove Win32/Spy.Zbot.ABC from your computer completely, but also can take precautions against other virus and malware.