What Is Trojan:Win32/Ropest? How Do I Completely Get Rid of Trojan:Win32/Ropest?

What Is Trojan:Win32/Ropest?

Trojan:Win32/Ropest is classified as a horrible Trojan horse which is designed by cyber criminals to attack targeted computer and perform illegal activities on the operating system. It usually permeates into your computer via spam emails containing malicious links or attachments, hacked websites or unknown freeware resources without your knowledge and consent.

Once installed, it is able to conduct a series of destructive activities in your computer. For instance, it can provide the back doors for cyber criminals to take control of your computer remotely. While your computer is being controlled, the cyber criminals can pursue their evil purposes by stealing your valuable information such as passwords and bank account information. Moreover, this infection will change your registry settings and other important windows system files. If it plants some malicious rootkits into your operating system, those rootkits will be able to give your system false commands. As soon as the operating system receives those wrong commands and follows its instructions to run, some programs on your computer will run in disorder and even cannot operate anymore. Because those wrong commands and instructions can disable or lock some normal programs to run. Furthermore, this Trojan horse can detect the security loopholes in your computer and make full use of them to download more infections into your computer like malware, ransomware, spyware, worms and so on. If more infections come into your computer, your computer will result in worse performance such as taking a long time to turn on and shut down or even coming across unexpected blue screen and system crash.

All in all, this Trojan:Win32/Ropest is a malicious Trojan horse that needs to be removed immediately once is found.

How Do I Completely Get Rid of Trojan:Win32/Ropest?

Method A: Manual Removal 

Step 1 Get into the Safe Mode with Networking.
Reboot your computer. As the computer is booting but before Windows launches, tap the F8 key continuously which should bring up the Windows Advanced Options Menu as shown below. Use your arrow keys to highlight Safe Mode with Networking option and press Enter key.

Step 2 Stop Trojan:Win32/Ropest running processes in Windows Task Manager.

Methods to open Task Manager: Press CTRL+ALT+DEL or CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or Press the Start button > type "Run" to select the option > type "taskmgr" and press OK.

Step 3 Change the setting of  Folder Options in order to find the hidden files of Trojan:Win32/Ropest.

Methods to open Folder Options: Open Control Panel in Start menu and search for Folder Options.

When you’re in Folder Options window, please click on its View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then press OK.

Step 4 Go to the Registry Editor and remove all Trojan:Win32/Ropest registry entries listed here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Trojan:Win32/Ropest]IEHelper.DNSGuardCLSID
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Trojan:Win32/Ropest]IEHelper.DNSGuard
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[Trojan:Win32/Ropest]IEHelper.DNSGuard.1

%AppData%[Trojan:Win32/Ropest]toolbarstats.dat
%AppData%[Trojan:Win32/Ropest]toolbaruninstallStatIE.dat

Method to open Registry Editor: Hit Win+R keys and then type "regedit" in Run box to search.

Step 5 Reset your browsers to clear your internet history records, internet temp files and cookies.

Internet Explorer:
Open Internet Explorer, click the Gear icon or Tools > Internet options. Here, go to the Advanced tab and click the Reset button. Go to the Reset Internet Explorer settings > Delete personal settings and click on Reset option. Finally, click Close and OK to save the changes.

Mozilla Firefox:
Open Mozilla Firefox, go to the Help section > Troubleshooting Information. Here, select Reset Firefox and click Finish.

Google Chrome:
Click the Chrome menu button, select Tools > Extensions, find unknown extension and remove them by clicking Recycle bin. Now click Settings > Show Advanced settings > Reset browser settings and click Reset.

Note: Manual removal is risky and tough process requiring expertise. Not a single mistake is allowed. Before you apply this method, please backup the system files in case of making any mistakes. 

Method B: Automatic Removal

Step 1 Download SpyHunter-Installer.exe and double click it to install SpyHunter and finish the installation step by step.

Step 2 Open SpyHunter and click Scan Computer Now! to start scan your computer.

Step 3 When the scan is completed, you can see that Trojan:Win32/Ropest and other threats are successfully detected. Then click Fix Threats to clean your computer.

Note: If you're not familiar with the manual removal, it is suggested that you back up Windows registry first before carrying out the approach, or better get help from SpyHunter. Thus, your problems can be solved efficiently and completely.