Remove Dlchosts.exe Trojan

This article can help you to remove Dlchosts.exe Virus. The step by step removal works for every version of Microsoft Windows.

The appearance of the Dlchosts.exe process is a bad sign. This process is started by a nasty Trojan horse. Unfortunately, your computer is infected. You have the Dlchosts.exe Trojan miner. What the parasite does is basically what every legitimate coin miner does. It performs accounting services for a coin platform and gets rewarded with fractions of the said coin. Yet, unlike other miners, Dlchosts.exe Trojan does this in secret. The parasite sneaks into your OS unnoticed and takes advantage of your machine. It runs its processes in the background and leaves your device unusable. The Trojan never asked for your permission. It just took control of your device and left you to suffer the side effects. Oh, yes. There are unpleasant side effects. The coin mining process requires a lot of computer resources. The Trojan takes what it needs without considering your needs. It prevents you from using your computer normally. You must have noticed how sluggish and unresponsive your device is. If you check your machine, you will also notice that it radiates heat. You cannot see the Trojan, but the heat is evident enough to confirm how intensive the mining process actually is. Unfortunately, your discomfort is not the only side effect. Most victims don’t take into consideration the fact that Dlchosts.exe Trojan uses their CPUs and GPUs under high temperatures. Heat is bad for your hardware. The Trojan shortens your CPU’s life significantly. If you don’t take action against the parasite, you also risk ending up with the Blue Screen of Death and losing important data.

How did I get infected with?

As sophisticated as Dlchosts.exe Trojan is, to reach its victims, this parasite uses the classic distribution methods. Spam email attachments, torrents, bogus updates, drive-by downloads, etc. All these techniques will fail if you are just a bit more careful. The spam emails are the number one cause of Trojan infections. You should be very careful how you interact with the emails you’ve received. More often than not, the bogus messages contain malicious documents as well as corrupted links. Did you know that hyperlinks can be corrupted? Now you do! Don’t click on suspicious links. One click is all it takes for a virus to be downloaded. If you receive a message from someone unexpected, take a minute to verify the sender. You can simply enter the questionable email address into some search engine. If it was sent from an organization, go to their official website and compare the email addresses listed there with the one you have received a message from. We know that is time-consuming, but you don’t really have a choice. The Internet is a dangerous place. The Dlchosts.exe Trojan tricked you once, don’t repeat the same mistake ever again! Always do your due diligence!

Why is this dangerous?

Dlchosts.exe Trojan has many side effects that are dangerous. The virus exploits your device. It doesn’t limit its resource consummation. On the contrary, it takes as much as it can. Thus, it causes your computer to be sluggish and to radiate heat. If your cooling system is not efficient, your PC will overheat. Thus, it will crash frequently. You won’t be able to turn it on immediately. Furthermore, frequent system crashes lead to data loss and the Blue screen of Death. Let’s not overlook the fact that the radiated heat was once electricity. If you let the Trojan working for too long, it will double even triple your electricity bill. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. The coin mining process is profitable if you don’t use your own resources. The crooks are using yours. You paid for the hardware, you will pay the electricity. Yet, it is the crooks that will get the revenue. Meanwhile, you are stuck with an unresponsive computer that crashes every time you open a heavier app. Do not let this continue a minute longer. Get back in control of your own device. We have prepared a manual removal guide below this article. If you are not confident in your computer skills, download a powerful anti-malware program and run a deep system scan. You have options. Choose your method and remove Dlchosts.exe Trojan for good!

Manual Dlchosts.exe Removal Instructions

The Dlchosts.exe infection is specifically designed to make money to its creators one way or another. The specialists from various antivirus companies like Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Norton, Avast, ESET, etc. advise that there is no harmless virus.

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Dlchosts.exe infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Track down Dlchosts.exe related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Dlchosts.exe startup location

STEP 3: Delete Dlchosts.exe traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Dlchosts.exe related processes in the computer memory

• Open your Task Manager by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC keys simultaneously
• Carefully review all processes and stop the suspicious ones.

• Write down the file location for later reference.

Step 2: Locate Dlchosts.exe startup location

Reveal Hidden Files

• Open any folder
• Click on “Organize” button
  
• Choose “Folder and Search Options”
• Select the “View” tab
• Select “Show hidden files and folders” option
• Uncheck “Hide protected operating system files”
• Click “Apply” and “OK” button

Clean Dlchosts.exe virus from the windows registry

• Once the operating system loads press simultaneously the Windows Logo Button and the R key.

• A dialog box should open. Type “Regedit”

• WARNING! be very careful when editing the Microsoft Windows Registry as this may render the system broken.

Depending on your OS (x86 or x64) navigate to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] or
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]

• and delete the display Name: [RANDOM]

• Then open your explorer and navigate to: %appdata% folder and delete the malicious executable.

Clean your HOSTS file to avoid unwanted browser redirection

Navigate to %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/host

If you are hacked, there will be foreign IPs addresses connected to you at the bottom. Take a look below:

Step 4: Undo the possible damage done by Dlchosts.exe

This particular Virus may alter your DNS settings.

Attention! this can break your internet connection. Before you change your DNS settings to use Google Public DNS for Dlchosts.exe, be sure to write down the current server addresses on a piece of paper.

To fix the damage done by the virus you need to do the following.

• Click the Windows Start button to open the Start Menu, type control panel in the search box and select Control Panel in the results displayed above.
• go to Network and Internet
• then Network and Sharing Center
• then Change Adapter Settings
• Right-click on your active internet connection and click properties. Under the Networking tab, find Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4). Left click on it and then click on properties. Both options should be automatic! By default it should be set to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and the second one to “Obtain DNS server address automatically!” If they are not just change them, however if you are part of a domain network you should contact your Domain Administrator to set these settings, otherwise the internet connection will break!!!

 

• Check your scheduled tasks to make sure the virus will not download itself again.

How to Permanently Remove Dlchosts.exe Virus (automatic) Removal Guide

Please, have in mind that once you are infected with a single virus, it compromises your whole system or network and let all doors wide open for many other infections. To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify possible virus leftovers or temporary files.