Frethog AWV
Frethog AWV is a damn Trojan that captures your passwords, presumably so it can log into your financial accounts and steal your ID.
Cheers to spending a weekend dealing with identity theft.
So you probably picked up on the sarcasm.
But I’m sincere about showing you how to remove Frethog AWV for free.
And also about how much I fancy your mum.
Remove Frethog AWV Automatically, with SmitFraud
Don’t have a lot of time? What with YouPorn.com reading The Guardian, my charity work, and more, neither do I. If you don’t know how to manually delete Frethog AWV files, and don’t want to learn, here’s how you automatically remove Frethog AWV.
Before you start, print out these instructions—you’re going to have to restart your computer in Safe Mode. Also, back up your PC in case you make a mistake.
- Download SmitFraudFix for free, and save it to your desktop.
- Reboot your PC in Safe Mode.
- To reboot in Safe Mode using Windows XP, restart your PC, and when a progress bar appears at the bottom of the screen, hit F8 once every second. When you see the Windows Start-up menu, highlight Safe Mode and hit Enter. Your desktop will show up, and make whatever repairs necessary. Then reboot your system and allow it to start up as normal.
- To reboot in Safe Mode using Windows Vista, go Start > Run. Type “MSCONFIG” into the Open field, and click OK. From the BOOT.INI tab, check /SAFEBOOT and click Restart).
- Once your desktop loads, double-click SmitfraudFix.exe.
- After the credits roll, you’ll see a menu. Click option number two, “Clean (safe mode recommended)“. Click Enter and delete your files infected with Frethog AWV.
- SmitFraudFix will clean your PC. When SmitFraudFix is finished, its Disk Cleanup automatically starts.
- Once Disk Cleanup is done, it’ll ask you, “Registry cleaning – Do you want to clean the registry?” Type in “Y” (yes), and click “Enter“. When Disk Cleanup finishes, restart your PC.
- If your system’s wininet.dll is infected, SmitFraudFix asks you if you want to replace the file. If SmitFraud asks, “Replace infected file?” Type “Y” (yes) to answer and click “Enter“.
- Once that’s finished, restart your system.
- After restarting, a Notepad file might popup with a log of the files SmitFraudFix deleted. If it doesn’t popup, you can find the log as a file rapport.txt in Local Disk C:, the root of your hard drive.
- Restart your system again, in Safe Mode. Once it boots up, go to C:\Windows\Temp. Select “Edit“, select “Select All“, and click “DELETE“. Click “Yes” to confirm you want all these files to get trashed in the Recycle Bin.
- Restart your system one more time, in normal mode. Go to Windows Update and download any critical updates for your computer. You’re done.
Remove Frethog AWV with Your Bare Hands
You dig a work out. Manually removing Frethog AWV can be hard and time consuming, but apparently you’re into that. Obviously, I can’t guarantee these instructions will completely remove Frethog AWV from your system, but it’s worth a try. Just make sure you backup your system before you try to remove Frethog AWV manually.
Before you start, print out these manual Frethog AWV removal instructions and close all applications, including your web browser.
- Uninstall Frethog AWV: Select Start menu > Settings > Control Panel. Double-click “Add/Remove Programs“, and search for “Frethog AWV”. If you find Frethog AWV, uninstall Frethog AWV.
- Stop Frethog AWV processes: Select Start menu > Run. Type taskmgr, then click on the Processes tab for a list of running processes. Search for Frethog AWV processes, like “Frethog AWV.exe“, or any Frethog AWV processes I list below. Right-click “Frethog AWV.exe“, and click “End task“.
%windows%\tciocp64.exe
- Delete Frethog AWV files in Windows Vista and XP: Select Start menu > Settings > Search. Click For Files and Folders…. You’ll see a speech bubble asking you, “What do you want to search for?” Select All files and folders. Type the names of Frethog AWV files into the search box, including any Frethog AWV file I’ve listed below. Now select Local Hard Drives, and click Search. As soon as you see a bastard Frethog AWV file, just delete it.
- Unregister Frethog AWV DLL files: Select Start menu > Settings > Run. Type “cmd” in Run’s box, and click OK. To switch directories, type “cd” in the command box, hit the Space key, and type the directory where the Frethog AWV DLL file is located. If you don’t know which directory the Frethog AWV DLL file is located in, enter “dir” into the command box to see a directory’s contents. To go back one directory, enter “cd ..” in the command box and hit Enter. Once you find the Frethog AWV DLL file you want to remove, including any of the DLLs I list below, type “regsvr32 /u MadeUpDLLName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 /u Frethog AWV.dll”) and hit Enter. If you delete a DLL by mistake, type “regsvr32 MadeUpWhoopsName.dll” (e.g., “regsvr32 Frethog AWV.dll”) into your command box, and hit Enter.
%system%\tciocp64.dll
- Unregister Frethog AWV registry keys: Select Start menu > Run. Type regedit, and click OK. Search for any Frethog AWV registry keys I list below. To delete these Frethog AWV registry keys, right-click the Frethog AWV registry key, select “Modify”, and click “Delete“.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run tciocp64
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run tciocp64
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run tciocp64
- Delete Frethog AWV directories: Select Start menu > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder. Search for “C:\ProgramFiles\Frethog AWV“, or any Frethog AWV directories I list below. Right-click these Frethog AWV directories. Click “Delete“, “Yes“, and “Yes” again to confirm you want to move the Frethog AWV folder into the Recycle Bin.
- Remove Frethog AWV desktop icons: Drag and drop any Frethog AWV icons into your Recycle Bin.
- Change your home page: If Frethog AWV hijacked your home page, select Start menu > Control Panel > Internet Options > General. Under “Home Page” select Use Default. Enter the URL you want as your home page (for example, “http://www.damntrojan.co.uk”), and select “Apply” and “OK“. Open a new browser window to make sure your home page has changed.
You’re done. Hopefully these Frethog AWV removal instructions got rid of Frethog AWV for you. Just so we’re clear on things, I can’t guarantee these instructions will completely remove Frethog AWV from your computer.
If you tried these instructions to get rid of Frethog AWV and they didn’t work, throw your computer out the window.
Or consult professionals.
Frethog AWV Could Be a Trojan
WTF Are Trojans?
Remember that college class you took on Greek mythology?
Neither do I.
Trojans get their name from Greek mythology, though — a Trojan is software that acts like a Trojan horse. The same way that Trojan horse looked like a great gift to the Spartans — only it was stuffed full of soldiers — Trojans are software that appear harmless but are really designed to kill your computer.
Trojans often pretend to be a video codec you need to watch porn — really — , maybe a photo attached to email, or some sort of other harmless software. Once you open your gates to a Trojan though, it can spy on you, download more malware, or allow a hacker to do whatever he wants on your machine.
How Frethog AWV and Trojans Might Infect You
- Websites: When you’re surfing the web, you won’t only get infected when you download some codecs or plugins. Sometimes all you have to do is visit a site and a Trojan secretly downloads itself onto your computer. Scary. Use a browser like Firefox to prevent this — it’s much more secure than Internet Explorer.
- Open ports: If you run any file-sharing applications — and I’m not just talking peer-to-peer music software — you risk opening up your system to infection. It can be as simple as leaving file sharing open on your instant message client. My rule of thumb is to close off every port. Set up a firewall, too, if you don’t already have one.
- Email: Some random person you don’t really remember just forwarded you some hot pictures? Don’t open them. Lots of Trojans are dolled up as harmless looking email attachments that take advantage of security holes in your mail client. Spam blocker software can help, but it’s better just not to open any attachments from people you don’t know.
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