Saturday, 27 October 2012

How To Remove Gphone Virus


Well gphone.exe is nowadays one of the most dangerous virus spreading
very rapidly. It is a Trojan and changes your IE homepage and sends tries to
open gtalk and yahoo messenger. It even sends messages to gtalk contacts.
Its icon is just like that of folder icon and people thinking of folder click on
it get infected by the virus.

Gphone virus basically is a 260 kb .exe file which looks like a folder and it
can take any name of any other folder if you have clicked on the virus folder
which looks like a folder but it is not. If you have a folder name ―movies‖ in
your D drive it will make a exe file in the folder named movies.exe and if
you click on that exe file it too work as a virus. It makes .exe files in all the
folders you have with the name of the folder.
How to remove this virus
Method 1
1. Go to Task Manager then Processes and then click on gphone.exe
and click on end process.
2. Manually go to folder where gphone.exe is present and delete it.

 Method 2
Use the Glary Utilities freeware to remove the exe files.
1. Install the Glary Utilities. Open it
2. Go to the modules tab -> Files and Folders-> Duplicate files finder.
3. Search for .exe files of same size and delete all the files with size
260 kb.


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