How to Remove Bearfoos Trojan Horse

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

Bearfoos is a Trojan horse. It’s a dreadful virus that wreaks utter havoc. Heed the experts’ advice: as soon as you become aware of its presence, take action. Remove this virus immediately! Don’t prolong the Trojan’s stay. The more time this parasite spends on your OS, the worse your predicament gets. Bearfoos is a complete and utter menace. It makes a mess of your OS and helps other viruses to invade. The Trojan alters settings, modifies the registry, and starts malicious processes. It messes with essential directories and makes your system prone to errors, freezes, and crashes. And not only that, but your apps also get affected. You face a plethora of malfunctions and errors. Even your online experience gets affected. Your browser gets flooded with questionable adverts. Suspicious and inappropriate websites pop up on your screen every time you so much as touch your browser. Pop-ups and notifications appear out of the blue. That’s the nature of the Trojan. It corrupts your entire system and affects every aspect of your user experience. These annoying intrusions are just minor inconveniences. There are far worse ones. Do not wait around to see what the future holds. Do what’s best for you and your system’s well-being. Find where Bearfoos lurks and delete it upon detection!

How did I get infected with?

There are myriads of ways for a Trojan to reach your system. And Bearfoos takes advantage of all known tricks. This Trojan lurks behind fake updates, corrupted links, spam messages, and torrents. The virus hides in the shadows and attacks when you let your guard down. Do not make that mistake! No anti-virus app can protect you if you give into naivety. Choose caution over carelessness. One keeps the parasites away, the other – invites them in. Only your actions can keep your system secure and virus-free. Download software and updates from reliable (preferably official) sources only. Don’t skip the terms and conditions. And, of course, be careful how you interact with your inbox. Whether it’s an instant message or email, treat all unexpected messages as potential threats. Always verify their senders. If, for example, you receive an unexpected offer from an organization, go to their official website. Compare the email addresses listed there to the questionable one. If they don’t match, delete the pretender. You can also enter the suspicious addresses into a search engine. If they were used for questionable activities, someone might have complained online. Even a little extra attention can spare you tons of troubles. Always take the time to do your due diligence!

Why is this dangerous?

Bearfoos is a nightmare. As soon as it invades, corruption follows. The Trojan throws you in a whirlwind of reshuffles. It alters settings and meddles with the registry. It corrupts important files and processes. And by doing so, it weakens your system’s defense. The Trojan makes it easier for malware to slither into your OS. If you are not sure, that’s very bad! From annoying adware to destructive ransomware, anything may infect your device. Bearfoos is likely to install spyware, keyloggers, and other data-harvesting malware that steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and financial details. And as if that’s not bad enough, but you also face the risk of data corruption. The nasty Trojan may also install viruses such as ransomware which lock your personal files and blackmail you for astonishing amounts of money. Do not put yourself through this. Remove the Trojan before it gets a chance to get you in serious trouble. Delete the Trojan right now! Clean your OS for good!

Manual Bearfoos Removal Instructions

The Bearfoos 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 Bearfoos 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 Bearfoos related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Bearfoos startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Bearfoos 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 Bearfoos 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 Bearfoos 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 Bearfoos

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 Bearfoos, 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 Bearfoos 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.