Trojan.Miuref
Short bio
Trojan.Miuref is Malwarebytes' detection name for a family of Trojansthat have different capabilities. The most prevalent objective seems to be click fraud.
Type and source of infection
Some variants of Trojan.Miuref alter search results to get the victims to visit the sites they promote. They also have the ability to download and run other malware. These Trojans are usually installed by other malware, but they have also been spotted as email attachments.
Protection
Malwarebytes blocks Trojan.Miuref
Home remediation
Malwarebytes can detect and remove Trojan.Miuref without further user interaction.
- Please download Malwarebytesto your desktop.
- Double-click MBSetup.exeand follow the prompts to install the program.
- When your Malwarebytes for Windowsinstallation completes, the program opens to the Welcome to Malwarebytes screen.
- Click on the Get startedbutton.
- Click Scan to start a Threat Scan.
- Click Quarantineto remove the found threats.
- Reboot the system if prompted to complete the removal process.
Business remediation
How to remove Trojan.Miuref with the Malwarebytes Nebula console
You can use the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Nebula console to scan endpoints.
Nebula endpoint tasks menu
On the Quarantine pageyou can see which threats were quarantined and restore them if necessary.