Baldr Malware Removal

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

Baldr, or as it’s also known Baldr Stealer, is dangerous and damaging. It’s an atrocious Trojan threat that places your security at risk. You’d do best to remove it the first chance you get. The more you prolong its stay, the worse your experience becomes. Do yourself a favor, and act against the infection ASAP. To delay is to set yourself up for a horrendous experience. You see, Baldr isn’t your standard Trojan. You don’t only suffer the troubles, you’ve come to expect from Trojans. Apart from them, you also face a severe security hazard. As the name Baldr Stealer suggests, the infection aims to steal all manner of private data from you. Don’t let it! Get rid of it before it gets a chance to cause irrevocable damages. That way, you’ll also avoid enduring the other grievances that follow it. Continuous online interference, lagging and system crashes. Incessant meddling with your Task Manager, settings, and Registry. The increase of your CPU usage, and the restricted Internet access. Not to mention, the Trojan disables your firewall and anti-virus program. Thus, making your system more vulnerable to malware. Spare yourself all these troubles, and get rid of the cyber menace at once. Baldr has no place on your PC. Remove it ASAP.

How did I get infected with?

You can acquire Baldr for the price of 150 US Dollars. Yes, cyber criminals advertise the tool throughout various forums. They pawn it off as a useful application. They market it, with regard to the crowd, they’re pushing it onto. Let’s explain. If they advertise it on a gaming forum, they claim you can use it to cheat. And, hope you fall for it. They aim to trick you into downloading and installing it, yourself. But that’s not the only way, you can get stuck with the threat. Apart from this “legitimate” method, it also turns to the usual tricks. It gets distributed via freeware, fake updates, spam emails, corrupted links. Say, you get an email that seems to come from a well-known company. Like, PayPal or DHL. It reads that you have to verify contact information, a purchase, or whatever else lie, it feeds you. And, then, asks of you to click a certain link, or download an attachment. Do so, and you get stuck with Baldr. Always be on your guard! Don’t disregard the importance of caution. Caution helps you keep cyber threats out of your PC. Naivety, haste and distraction do not. Choose caution over the lack thereof.

Why is this dangerous?

As mentioned, Baldr is designed to steal data. It gets advertised as the tool to use, if you wish to steal: cookies, and browsing history. All the pages you frequent, the links and ads you click on. Your social media accounts, logins, and passwords. And, of course, your credit card and bank account details. The list of possibilities is quite extensive. You can use the thieving Trojan to steal a lot of things. You can even steal wallet.dat files. The ones, created by Bitcoin clients, to store private key information. Not even your messaging applications are safe from Baldr. The files, you keep on your Desktop, and in the Downloads and Documents folder are also fair game. And, the tool can even make screenshots. Baldr has access to all manner of data. Geolocations, IP address, name of a computer and username. Also, system’s details, like screen resolution, operating system’s language, amount of added RAM. And, even a list of the programs you have installed. Don’t think that using a VPN changes anything. The cyber menace collects information from various VPN clients. Like, NordVPN and ProtoVPN. You have to understand how dangerous Baldr is. Nothing can escape its reach, and that places you in a dangerous situation. Don’t gamble with your privacy, or your system’s well-being. Get rid of the hazardous infection as soon as you get the opportunity. The sooner you remove the dangerous threat, the better.

Manual Baldr Removal Instructions

The Baldr 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 Baldr 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 Baldr related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Baldr startup location

STEP 3: Delete Baldr traces from Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Baldr 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 Baldr 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 Baldr 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 Baldr

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 Baldr, 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 Baldr 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.