Trojan:AutoIt/LockScreen.A

Trojan:AutoIt/LockScreen.A is a malicious ransomware Trojan which is infiltrated onto your operating Windows system to display fictitious information and trick you into paying illegitimate fines supposedly sent by Police and other authoritative departments. The dangerous program has been infecting computers since August of 2012. Since then thousands of computers have been infected with deceptive and malignant ransomware viruses. The Trojan works as a security backdoor or malware dropper, which is why you have to delete Trojan:AutoIt/LockScreen.A the second you notice it running on the PC. In the case, you should also take care of the removal of secondary infections.

It my be extremely difficult to discover and remove Trojan:AutoIt/LockScreen.A before it manages to corrupt your computer and disable your administrative privileges. Despite this, you should have no doubt about necessary removal once you realize that you cannot control your computer which is blocked. There are plenty of ransomware viruses which are related to the Trojan. Some of them are the GEMA Virus, L’accès à votre ordinateur a été fermé! Virus, Your computer has been locked! Virus, Ihr Computer wurde gesperrt Virus and Votre ordinateur est bloqué Virus. You need to remove the Trojan the minute you notice fictitious screen-locking alerts. They represent bogus information and you should ignore them without pondering about paying demanded fines for supposedly committed crimes.

As you may already understand there are multiple malign files that are responsible for all unauthorized and dangerous processes. Components like ckcnnv.exe (%WINDIR%), TNODUP.exe and CPE17AntiAutorun1330.exe (%PROGRAMFILES%) can delete system processes, modify auto-start programs and employ rootkits to make it impossible to find and remove Trojan:AutoIt/LockScreen.A. Two more malicious components you need to delete are LC.exe (%SystemDrive%) and m3srchmn.exe (%PROGRAMFILES%). These files can reconfigure Windows Security Center and Firewall to create unnoticeable links to remove servers. Moreover, they can remove access to Task Manager and Registry Editor, disable safe mode, change IE search page and display bogus alerts.

Manual Trojan:AutoIt/LockScreen.A removal is practically impossible due to restricted access to Task Manager and Registry Editor. Nonetheless, you can delete the infection with automatic removal tool SpyHunter. The application will scan your computer, locate malign components and remove them without further delay. Moreover, it will also protect your PC against similar malware! Overall, if you are experiencing any system disturbances and running dysfunctions, we suggest installing a free computer scanner and checking if any malignant programs are running on the system.