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Picrate.A malware description and removal detail
Categories:Worm
Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%SYSTEM%]cmd.com
[%SYSTEM%]netstat.com
[%SYSTEM%]ping.com
[%SYSTEM%]regedit.com
[%SYSTEM%]taskkill.com
[%SYSTEM%]tasklist.com
[%SYSTEM%]tracert.com
[%SYSTEM%]cmd.com
[%SYSTEM%]netstat.com
[%SYSTEM%]ping.com
[%SYSTEM%]regedit.com
[%SYSTEM%]taskkill.com
[%SYSTEM%]tasklist.com
[%SYSTEM%]tracert.com

Platforms / OS: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows NT, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista

Detecting Picrate.A:

Files:
[%SYSTEM%]cmd.com
[%SYSTEM%]netstat.com
[%SYSTEM%]ping.com
[%SYSTEM%]regedit.com
[%SYSTEM%]taskkill.com
[%SYSTEM%]tasklist.com
[%SYSTEM%]tracert.com
[%SYSTEM%]cmd.com
[%SYSTEM%]netstat.com
[%SYSTEM%]ping.com
[%SYSTEM%]regedit.com
[%SYSTEM%]taskkill.com
[%SYSTEM%]tasklist.com
[%SYSTEM%]tracert.com

Removing Picrate.A:

An up-to-date copy of ExterminateIt should detect and prevent infection from Picrate.A.

If you do not have ExterminateIt and you are worried that you may have infected computer, you could run trial version of ExterminateIt, or remove Picrate.A manually.

To completely manually remove Picrate.A malware from your computer, you need to delete the Windows registry keys and registry values, the files and folders associated with Picrate.A.

1. Use Task Manager to terminate the Picrate.A process.
2. Delete the original Picrate.A file and folders.
3. Delete the system registry key parameters
4. Update your antivirus databases or buy antivirus software and perform a full scan of the computer.

We recommends that all Internet users back up any important information on their computers, enable maximum protection from network attacks and malicious code on their computers, refrain from executing suspicious programs received from untrustworthy sources.

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