How to Remove "GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK" virus

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What is GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK?

GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK is considered as malicious program (malware).

GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK detected as TROJ.LNK.
GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK actively resists detection and employs a number of techniques to ensure that you cannot remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK from infected computers.
 

Technical Information:

  • Full path on a computer= %PROFILE%\DESKTOP\GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK

How GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK got on your computer?

Phishing is the most common way for malware to infect computers.
It could be a fake email message that appears to be originated from Microsoft Customer Service, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, or even your bank or insurance company.
Fake emails that appear to come from the police, the FBI and other government entities were also reported.

GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK could also infect your computer by exploiting a security vulnerability of your Web browser or one of its plugins.
If this is the case, GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK would be injected into a Web page, and could get to your PC when you visited a malicious or hacked Web site.

GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK can be distributed with legitimate software that is repackaged by the scammers.
It could be downloaded from warez Web sites or download archives.

How do you know you have GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK on my computer?

GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK works in background. It does not appear as a window, does not have a shortcut.
GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK hides its existence from your eyes.

You have 2 ways to remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK:

You have 2 ways

Remove it automatically1. Remove Automatically.
Remove it manually2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

  1. You know only one virus name: "GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
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  3. UnHackMe uses the special features to remove hard in removal viruses. If you remove a virus manually, it can prevent deleting using a self-protecting module. If you even delete the virus, it may recreate himself by a stealthy module.
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Here’s how to remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus automatically:

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STEP 3: Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus (3 minutes)

So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn't it?
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How to remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://…

You can see GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

check installed programs to uninstall

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus from running processes

Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus from Windows services

Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK from scheduled task list.

Delete any task related to GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus from Windows registry

Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK.

STEP 7: Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK from Google Chrome.
Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK Virus from Chrome Extensions

STEP 8: Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove GAME OF THRONES WINTER IS COMING.LNK from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.

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