Thursday, June 26, 2014

What is Blinkx Video Toolbar - How to remove it?

My computer is having a nasty problem. I haven’t downloaded file recently. Today when I made a full scan on my computer and kaspersky showed that my computer is infected with Blinkx Video Toolbar. I found it in 2 programs. However, I cannot delete it. When I tried to delete it, it showed that I don’t have administrator right to remove it which I am in administrator account.

What is Blinkx Video Toolbar?
Blinkx Video Toolbar is a pesky Trojan infection which is able to harm computers with Windows operating systems severely. It is distributed on the Internet by cyber criminals so that it can attack innocent computers all over the world. Cyber hackers who create this Trojan mainly use the dubious and unknown websites to spread this Trojan, especially those websites that provide adult contents. Those crooks hack into the servers of those websites and implant this Trojan infection into them, so once people come to visit the infected websites, this Trojan can infiltrate into target computers without users’ notice. As a small size Trojan, it can be bundled with other freeware that can be found on the Internet. During the installation process of the infected software, this Trojan can be installed at the same time and people will not recognize its invasion as it is performed at the background. Also, spam E-mail attachments are also a mean for hackers to spread this Trojan to innocent computer users.

Once this Blinkx Video Toolbar is installed on the target computer, the infected system can be damaged gradually and finally will come to a complete crash if this Trojan cannot be removed in time. Black screen and blue screen of death can be seen frequently as the system files have been damaged by this Trojan and some important system settings can also be changed arbitrary. Anti-virus program is designed to detect computer threats for computer users, so, this Trojan can be easily detected if it has infected the computer system. But it doesn’t mean the protection tool can remove this Trojan very easily. In order to stay longer on the infected computer, this Trojan can replicate itself and distribute on many locations in the infected computer, which increase the difficulty to get it removed.

This Trojan usually will not come to target computer alone, once the infected computer is connected to the Internet, this Trojan can help many other computer viruses and threats to come, which can make the infected computer being damaged more. Blinkx Video Toolbar can also contain a small program called keylogger in it. It is a tiny program but can be a strong threat to the PC user’s privacy. It can steal all the input information on the infected computer and save on a secret place that the cyber hackers set. With the help of this Trojan, cyber criminals can access the infected computer secretly and remotely for stealing other personal information or something specific that can be used by hackers.

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