Thursday, February 23, 2012

Remove PSW.Agent.ASTO (Trojan PSW.Agent.ASTO) to protect sensitive info – removal of the password stealing infection and its dropper

PSW.Agent.ASTO (Trojan PSW.Agent.ASTO) is a detection occurring in various locations. The problem is that most of the sites belong to so called white-listed area. Cleanup of that sector of computer memory requires extreme precision, or else critical damage is likely to occur. That is why many tools reasonably give up the challenge of PSW.Agent.ASTO removal, others delete the infected files along with harmless entries causing critical damage up to system collapse.
The infection has been observed in the wild as a content dropped by other infections. Those guides had other infections to drop. For instance, several victims of the above rogue stated the infection was reported after Google redirect virus.
Removal of PSW.Agent.ASTO thus goes beyond the goal of preventing its own payload, which is limited to password related info stealing. To get rid of PSW.Agent.ASTO, as well as other infections regardless of their relation to the passwords targeting threat, click here so that free scanner of advanced precision in white-listed area inspection could initiate the threats recognition routine as a first step toward computer disinfection. 

 Rename the remover to "explorer.exe" or try to install from Safe Mode if virus blocks download\installation

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