What is Keyplayer? - How to remove it?

I have come across troubles running on my computer lately. I ran a full scan by Norton and this Keyplayer popped up. Norton seems to have difficulties getting rid of this threat completely as the virus will reappear each time I restart the PC. It's been giving me lots of troubles and I have been struggled for a while trying to remove the virus. Did a system restore and ran some antivirus programs. Nothing worked. How do I delete this threat completely?

What is Keyplayer?

Keyplayer is defined as a nasty Trojan virus that can bypass most antivirus protection and sneak inside your computer to bring constant troubles and damage.it is a password stealer Trojan that attempts to hack user personal information for specific downloads. It also infects you computer system via Trojans, doubtful links, removable and mapped drives. It will attempt to transmit itself, by sending the links that encloses a malicious download to all the email contacts of the users. Additional it also downloads other malware on the compromised system.Once it breaks inside, Keyplayer will start to mess up your system settings as worse as possible. Once the adjustment happened in LAN and DNS, your computer may probably unable to go online. Second, Trojan.agent/gen-downloader can also open a backdoor download in your computer with lots of adware, malicious plug-in, and programs been installed into your computer. Once activated, Keyplayer starts carrying out its harmful activities. It makes certain changes to your registry settings and drops lots of hidden files to random system folders. You PC performance will be slowed down dramatically. In addition, Keyplayer can delete your program files and secretly open system loopholes for other Trojans, adware, spyware, malware. Sometimes, running in the background, it may even monitor your internet activities and steal your computer privacy, including browsing habits, search queries, IP credit card details and so on. No doubt, Keyplayer is a big threat for computer users.

What Will Keyplayer Does to You? Do not be worried that Keyplayer would encrypt your documents. What "Crypt" means the Trojan horse uses such encrypting method to hide its vicious codes from being detected by installed anti-virus programs easily and found by even experienced technicians. It is known to all that Trojan: Keyplayer has background program. Such program would take advantage of the ports seldom used by PC users to connect the designated server for uploading collected information and questing new commands to perfect its infiltration and operation. As a consequence, other infections from the same server will be able to enter into the target machine without authorization. It should be informed that the key to Keyplayer’s highly elusiveness is camouflaging system running processes as well as Windows protected items. With those verisimilar items, the operating system will be confused to execute the commands that it shouldn’t, like disabling security services and modify the installed anti-virus program’s setting. 1.Reboot the PC and keep pressing F8 key on the keyboard upon PC startup but before logging in. Hit the arrow keys to choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then tap Enter key to enter Safe Mode with Networking.

2.Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this Trojan, the name of the process of it is random.

3.Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

4.Open Registry entries. Search malicious files and registry entries related to Keyplayer and then remove all of them.

5.Clean your Browser using RegistQuick Malware like the other virus very often add or left temporary files, malicious cookies, Index.dat files and other useless stuffs in the browser that degrade its performance considerably. Not only that, some also modify browser settings which are really hard to revert manually. That's the reason why it is advised that you clean your browser to enhance productivity once you have deleted the targeted malware from your PC. And for that nothing is better than RegistQuick, which is really very effective and cleans all the left over and unwanted stuffs related to browser. So, just download and install this advanced utility and clean your PC browser instantly. Here is the user guide for your help – Download and Install RegistQuick. Now, start the application and click on Cleaner > Windows or Applications tab and hit Analyze button to examine the health of the browser.

Once analyzing finishes, click Run Cleaner button to clean the browser. Note: You can also clean & optimize your Windows Registry as well using this sophisticated utility.

In conclusion

The Keyplayer virus is released by cyber criminals and it takes every possible way to target your computer. It usually takes use of system loopholes to deliver additional computer threats. Once the rootkit virus invades the computer, it slows down the system performance and affects functions of normal programs greatly. It also makes modifications to computer files and drops some malicious files to the contaminated system. Any ignorance of the rootkit virus will lead great damages to the computer, such as computer freezes and system crash etc. Since the antivirus can be disabled by the Trojan virus, then manual removal becomes a better choice.