Remove PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A ---Permanently Get Rid of Trojan Horse

PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A is detected by MalwareBytes Anti-Malware.  As a member of Trojan horse family, PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A will mainly attack computers with Windows OS.

PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A is a high risk infection to the target computer which may produce severe annoyances once present on the PC. 

Once gets installed, PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A runs in the background and takes up a lot of CPU usage. Computer users may suffer extremely slowly running speed when they try to run the computers and programs as usual.

What’s worse, PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A Trojan horse virus can even inject malicious codes into the target computer system, as a result, other kinds of computer bugs can infiltrate into the machine more easily and the online third parties can access to the infected machine remotely via this illegal mediums. 

Many computer users wonder how this notorious Trojan horse sneaks into their PC as they just operate the PC as usual. Here I want to say, PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A is a tricky PC virus which can invade into the computer without owner’s permission and knowledge. 

Online activities including visiting malicious sites and links, installing free software and opening spam email attachments can all be the mediums to help distribute this PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A virus.

How can we completely remove this notorious computer infection? Many users complaints that PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A still pops up after they scan the PC with antivirus programs such as MalwareBytes Anti-Malware. This is because the PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A Trojan horse has some hidden entities that antivirus programs cannot locate and delete. And it is capable to reproduce itself by even a small part of its files.

Therefore, to permanently get rid of PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A virus, you have to use the manual removal method. Follow the steps as below and remove PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A thoroughly from your PC.

Method one:PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A manual removal instruction

Step 1: Launch your PC into Safe Mode with Networking.
 Restart your computer. As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap "F8" key constantly. Use the arrow keys to highlight the "Safe Mode with Networking" option, and then press ENTER.

Step2: Stop all processes that related to PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A
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 about PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A in the Window Task Manager.

Step3: show hidden files and folders and delete all the suspicious files.
Concrete steps
1).click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.

2).in the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).

3).delete all the files about PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A from computer drive
%AllUsersProfile%
%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random letters}\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~r
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~dll

Step 4: Delete malicious registry entries of PUP.Optional.Amonetize.A
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 malicious registry entries of PUP.Optional.Tarma.A.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ‘1’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ‘0’
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Random.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\policies\explorer
“EnableShellExecuteHooks”= 1 (0×1)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe

If the manual guide is kinda difficult for you, please feel free to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter to drive the self-invited guest away.

Method two: Automatically remove PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A with Spyhunter antivirus software:

 

Step 1: click the icon below to download automatic removal tool SpyHunter

 

 

Step 2: follow the instructions to install SpyHunter

 

 

Step 3: run SpyHunter to automatically detect and uninstall PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A

 

Summary: Due to the changeable characters of PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A, you cannot be too careful to distinguish the harmful files and registries from the system files and registries. If you have spend too much time in manual removing PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A and still not make any progress, you can download and install Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove PUP.Optional.Amonetize .A automatically for you.