How To Remove Secrypt.exe

Secrypt.exe is discovered as a vicious trojan horse infection which neaks on computer without seeking any permission in prior and do a number of malicious activities inside. After its assailation, the malware use to hide itself deep in computer and starts malevolent processes in system background. As a result, the malware manage to distribute its code all inside computer in multiple locations and gains full control. It also deactivates installed security applications on machine like Windows firewall, antivurses, and turns the system vulnerable to various malware threats. As a result, the victims can expect to have their machine with new suspicious toolbars, extensions, fake security programs, and many more.

As it’s mentioned, Secrypt.exe use to activate itself automatically, for which it puts some entries in registry settings, messes up with system security, and do even more other modifications whcih causes hassles to necessary functions of computer. Since trojan runs a number of vicious processes in background, they all suck a considerable amount of system resources like CPU and GPU strengths. This also causes other essential programs to fail due to lack of resources and the system ends up with freezeing issues. Most of the times, BSOD like error messages will appear on screen to turn overall PC usage to be drastic in no time.

So, having a computer somehow infected by Secrypt.exe can be completely drastic for a user as they will hardly be able to access their machine efficiently like they ever used to do before. A number of fake security warnings can be thrown on computer, which enforces the users to click a link or download some rogue security apps which claims to fix the issues. However, such deceptive tricks are employed to deceive users and their personal values. Therefore, it’s suggested to prevent your machine against such traits as far as possible.

Threat Summary

Name: Secrypt.exe
Type: Trojan, spyware
Description: Secrypt.exe is a vicious trojan horse infection that is meant to deceive users and their personal values without any prior notice. It turns the PC access terrible in no time.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware installer packages, malicious sites or links, fake advertisements, and many more.
Removal: Check out the guidelines section under this article to learn how to remove Secrypt.exe from compromised computers.

As mentioned earlier, cyber-criminals have expertise to use some of the services offered by Windows System process as vulnerabilities. They usually mimic a legitimate system process with name of the Trojan or malware. They create the process of a Trojan same as some legitimate system process. In some cases, they easily get differentiated from legit processes however; some cases can be extremely difficult to distinguish.

If you examine the Windows process category in the Task Manager, you would easily notice the legitimate system process. However, if you notice duplicate files process, one must be a malware. This type of Trojan or malware continuously mines bitcoin or other crypto-currencies and this is a very high resource extensive process. The overall speed and performance of the PC gets extremely slow and sluggish. For depth enquiry, you can right click on the doubtful process and choose file location option in order to see the associated program. As a simple rule, if the file is stored in Windows/System32 folder, it is legitimate.

On the other hand, if the process is stored in the user’s processes or “Open the file” for the process leads to any random directories then it is doubtful. You should immediately scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool. Remember that manual removal of harmful process related to Trojan or suspicious files are very difficult due to its deep intrusion and integration with the OS.

How to Remove Secrypt.exe

The first thing that you should do is to scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool and that will be very helpful. On the other hand, if you have backup of your important data in any external clean location such as hard-drive or pen-drive etc. then formatting the infected hard-drive of the PC may also work for you. Remember that formatting the hard-drive may work for one PC but if the infected PC is connected with a network of PCs then this step will go in vain.

Click on the “Download” button to use “SpyHunter” anti-malware tool to clean your workstation.

 

• On click on the download button, the file named as “Spyhunter-Intaller.exe” gets downloaded.

• In the downloads dialog box, choose “SpyHunter Installer.exe” and open the file.

• Select “Yes” in the “User Account Control” dialog box.

• Select the language you prefer and press on “OK” to get next step

• In order to process the installation, press on “Continue”

• Accept the privacy policy and end user agreement.

• Open “SpyHunter” by locating its icon on the desktop or search it on Windows “Start” menu.

The next step is to use “SpyHunter” for PC scanning and malware removal.

• Go to the “Home tab” and press on “Start Scan” button

Wait for the few minutes to scan gets completed. On completion, it scan result report is presented on the screen.

⇒ Register for the Spyhunter and remove Secrypt.exe and all detected threats

To delete Secrypt.exe and all associated threats found through the system scan, you need to register for the SpyHunter:

• Click on the register button available on the top-right corner of the program window,and then click on buy button.
• You will automatically be redirected to the purchasing page, enter your customer detail and valid email address,
• After the successful payment, you will receive email confirmation message. The email contains the account information such as usernames and passwords and so on,
• Thereafter, enter the same detail in the Account tab of the settings section of the program. Now, you can avail full features and protection to your system.

⇒ Steps to remove Secrypt.exe and other detected threats:

Spyhunter antivirus tool categorizes the type of objects detected during system scans in total five sections – “Malware“, “PUPs” (Potentially Unwanted Programs), “Privacy“, “Vulnerabilities“, and “Whitelisted objects“

Select the object you want to remove and then click on Next button (you can quarantine an object so that you can anytime restore it to the system using restore feature)