Trojan.Potao.A

Trojan.Potao.A is a malicious computer threat that breaches your privacy and opens your computer for even further malware infection. Usually this Trojan is dropped in your system by another infection, so it means that if you have Trojan.Potao.A in your system there probably are a lot more parasites residing in your computer than you think. It is especially hard to determine whether you are infected with this Trojan, because there are no accurate symptoms for this infection. If you have an antivirus program installed, it might prompt you about it.

Usually Trojan.Potao.A is detected as a dangerous DLL component. What is more this Trojan has a lot of processes associated with it. What is more, some of them are trying to pretend legitimate ones as, for example, msnsmsg.exe, which is obviously trying to come across as an MSN Messenger process file, while the legitimate MSN Messenger process is msnmsgr.exe.

Most of the time, Trojan.Potao.A connects to a remote server, downloads other threats and executes them in your computer, significantly slowing down the system. One of the files that Trojan.Potao.A downloads is proved to be called “camprainbowgold.ru”. And that is not the only file that is associated with this Trojan. There are a lot of files that get downloaded and settle in various parts of your system. Some can be found in system32 or Microsoft\Windows folders. Trojan.Potao.A can also be responsible for fraudulent security system entering your system and hiding in Temporary files folder or pretending to be an update for your graphics processor.

This Trojan is detected all over the world, in such countries as the United States, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, Japan and so on, so you are not the only one suffering from this infection. You must remove Trojan.Potao.A from your computer fast. Since the files associated with this parasite are all over the place it might be hard to remove it manually. You are advised to acquire a legitimate security program which will find all the Trojan.Potao.A’s elements and delete them for you.