Remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.A—Uninstall Guide

PUP.Optional.Babylon.A is also known as PUP.Optional.Babsolution.A which is created by Babylon Ltd.belongs to the trajon horse family. The PUP.Optional.Babylon.A was detected by Malwarebytes Anti-Malware; however, the antivirus software can only detect the virus but fails to remove it from the infected PC. As  PUP.Optional.Babylon.A is so tricky that  mutates frequently to change the names of  its components which helps it successfully escape from the deleting of antivirus programs. At the same time, users may find that there are so many other computer viruses in their PC after the detection of PUP.Optional.Babylon.A. This is because once get infiltrated, PUP.Optional.Babylon.A will automatically download other computer viruses into the infected PC without users’ permission and knowledge.  Then it corrupt the operate system together with other types of computer malware and spyware.
Users may often encounter window freeze and system crash when they are surfing the internet. The performance of the infected PC declines day after day. What’s worse, Some important system settings will be altered by PUP.Optional.Babylon.A which leads to a back door open for the cyber criminals to control the PC and perform some malicious tasks.  The browser homepage, desktop settings and redirect search inquiries of the infected computer are also being modified by this notorious virus. All in all, PUP.Optional.Babylon.A should be removed immediately once you have noticed its existence.

Threat Assessment and Consequences:
Name – PUP.Optional.Babylon.A
Type: Trojan horse
Risk Level: Extremely Harmful
Operating Environment: Windows platform
Targeted Browsers：Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and so on.
Number of Corruption: More than 50 files at a time
Geographical distribution: Globally Distributed

In order to completely remove this tricky virus, you have to manually delete all the infected files and registries. The incursions of other computer viruses multiply the removal difficulties. Follow the removal guide step by step and get rid of PUP.Optional.Babylon.A from your PC permanently.

Effective methods to get rid of PUP.Optional.Babylon.A:

Method one: Manually remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.A
Method two: Automatically remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.A easily with SpyHunter

Detail instruction (please perform all the steps in correct order)

Method one: Manually remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.A

Step 1: stop all the malicious processes about PUP.Optional.Babylon.A Guide: Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.
 
 
Terminate all the processes related to PUP.Optional.Babylon.A

Step2: uninstall PUP.Optional.Babylon.A from your computer, click the Start button, then select Control Panel, and click on Add or Remove programs.

Step 3: show hidden files and folders and delete all the following files.
Guide: click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it. In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
 
Delete all the following files belong to PUP.Optional.Babylon.A

%AppData%\.exe
%CommonAppData%\.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\.exe
%temp%\.exe
C:\Program Files\

Step 4: open Registry Editor to delete all the vicious registries as below Guide: open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )
 
Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Search_URL" = "http://www..com/web/?type=ds&ts=&from=tugs&uid=&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Search Page" = "http://www..com/web/?type=ds&ts=&from=tugs&uid=&q={searchTerms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www..com/?type=hp&ts=&from=tugs&uid="
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www..com/web/?type=ds&ts=&from=tugs&uid=&q={searchTerms}"

If the manual removal is kinda difficult for you and you have spent too much time in manually removing without any progress, stop and choose the automatic removal solution.

Method two: Automatically remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.Aeasily with SpyHunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. It is important to note that SpyHunter removal tool works well and should run alongside existing security programs without any conflicts.

Step one: Click the Download icon to install SpyHunter in your PC.
 

Step two: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.

Step three: Choose Select all>Remove to get rid of all the threats on your PC.

Video on how to remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.A:

Note: manual removal is an effectively method to get rid of PUP.Optional.Babylon.A, as to completely remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.A, all its related files, process, and registries needs to be removed. If you haven’t sufficient expertise in manually dealing with program files, processes, .dll files and registry entries, you are recommended to download Spyhunter to automatically remove PUP.Optional.Babylon.A from your PC quickly and effectively.