How to Remove Ipcap Virus

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

Ipcap is yet another virus that falls under the Trojan Horse umbrella. This menace sneaks into your computer through trickery and makes a mess out of your operating system. The Trojan alters settings, modifies your registry, drops files, and starts processes. This, of course, happens in the background. The infiltration process has no symptoms. You might notice decreased in your OS’s performance, but nothing major. Ipcap is stealthy. It takes control of your OS without triggering any alarms. And if you are not sure – that’s dangerous! The virus modifies your operating system and makes it vulnerable to numerous threats. The Trojan horses are notorious for being backdoors for destructive parasites like ransomware. If you can’t notice the virus, you can’t take action against it. And that’s crucial. The more time this parasite has, the bigger the chance it causes irreversible damage. So, consider yourself lucky. If you know that your PC harbors Ipcap, you can take action. Waste no time! Find where the virus hides and delete it upon detection. That’s your best and only course of action. Clean your operating system ASAP!

How did I get infected with?

Fake updates, corrupted links, bundles, malvertising, pirated software. There are myriads of ways for Ipcap to reach your computer. The Trojans, however, tend to travel the web through spam messages. That’s right! The good old spam emails are still the number one cause of virus infections. The method remains the same, but its scheme is quite different. The crooks no longer rely merely on malicious attachments. They use them, of course, but they also embed corrupted links. One click is all they pray for. That’s all they need to infect your computer. Do not make their job easier! Choose caution over carelessness. Treat the unexpected messages as potential threats. Whether it’s an email or an instant message, always verify the senders. If, for example, you receive an unexpected email 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. Also, when downloading attachments, always make sure that they are “true file type.” The Ipcap executable might be camouflaged as a PDF file, for example. Make sure that the format of the file matches its extension.

Why is this dangerous?

Ipcap is a nasty Trojan. Its infiltration process has no symptoms, yet, once the virus calls your OS “home,” everything changes. The Trojan messes with essential program directories and is likely to trigger various issues. It might cause your programs to malfunction, to take forever to load or to crash out of the blue. The Trojan also slows your system down, as well as triggers errors and alerts. It might even force you to reboot your system repeatedly. These issues, however, are not your biggest problem. They are your clue! Every performance problem you encounter is a warning of how meddling and dangerous the Trojan is. Ipcap modifies your system and is capable of infecting it with various parasites. From annoying adware to destructive ransomware, anything might infect your PC through the Trojan. No one can tell you what to expect. What will happen to your computer depends on the Trojan’s operators. One is certain, though, these criminals won’t do you a favor. Their virus exists to cause harm! Do yourself a huge favor and remove this menace before it gets you in serious trouble.

Manual Ipcap Removal Instructions

The Ipcap 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 Ipcap 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 Ipcap related processes in the computer memory

STEP 2: Locate Ipcap startup location

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

STEP 4: Undo the damage done by the virus

STEP 1: Track down Ipcap 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 Ipcap 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 Ipcap 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 Ipcap

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 Ipcap, 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 Ipcap 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.