PUP.Optional.TubeDimmer is categorized as a Trojan infection from the Generic group that was discovered by AVG recently. It’s capable to infect your system and install additional malware, including Trojans, viruses and other parasites without your permission. Normally, this virus is installed using social engineering techniques, such as tricking inexperienced computer users into installing bogus updates or security software. And it also can be bundled with other software. If a user installs this freeware or shareware from an unreliable source, this aggressive Trojan can invade the system silently. Then it runs in the background remaining undetected for long periods of time until AVG detects it.
Getting a Trojan inside the computer is very dangerous. It will open up a huge security hole on your machine, allowing remote attackers to reach your system and sensitive personal information. It aims to collect the computer user’s sensitive details such as user name and passwords and distribute other security threats. In addition, it may control the web browsers Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer in an attempt to steal more information. Thus, users may be redirected to websites they don’t want frequently. More than that, you will discover that the overall performance of the affected system will slow down incredibly making it impossible for user to launch any single program or open files. As soon as you run a program, it keeps showing you that the program is not responding. Therefore, to keep system safe from all the potential consequences, it is a must to remove PUP.Optional.TubeDimmer Virus from the computer.
Other Corrupted Activities of This Trojan Horse Include:
1. This virus slows down your computer speed which make you in a trouble while opening program and surfing Internet. It takes forever to open a program or website.
2. Antivirus you have installed keeps popping up messages while you are surfing on the internet showing you the computer is at risk but you can’t get rid of it all.
3. This virus will shut down your other anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. And it will also infect and corrupt your registry, leaving your computer totally unsafe.
4. This virus will disable the proper running of many different programs or even disable some functions of your computer.
5. System restore can’t help to remove this Trojan completely.
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