Joke:Win16/Winshoot

Joke:Win16/Winshoot may also be reported by alias names Joke.Winshoot.A, Joke/Winshoot and Win32.Banker. Even though this infection is categorized as a joke program, the intentions behind this malicious application are not of a laughing matter, because it can truly put your personal data at serious risk. Banker Trojans are capable of information stealing and are vastly spread across Brazil; nonetheless, that does not mean that this malicious application could not breach computers in different regions. Banking information stealing infections’ running would not be possible without the existence of unauthorized connections via FTP and HTTP links, and that is exactly what Joke:Win16/Winshoot may do, if you do not remove it upon execution.

Right after being infiltrated into a computer via security backdoors, cyber criminals managing the infection will infect your system with their malicious executable MouseBlaster.exe, which may also appear within your system as postal.exe, gun.exe or shot.exe. These cloaked names are meant to make you oblivious to their illicit existence, which only proves that they are illegitimate. Despite this, you should not remove Joke:Win16/Winshoot files manually, if you are not sure whether they do belong to your Windows system or not, especially since they can hide behind such file names as word.exe or Kaspersky_antihacker_keygen.exe.

The malignant Joke:Win16/Winshoot components can hijack the registry, delete or add required products, release misleading pop-ups, record keystrokes, mouse clicks and other information necessary for login data theft, and are capable of connecting to the web without any of your authorization. What is more, such devious infection’s executables as MouseBblaster.exe can hide all of this malignant activity with applied rootkits, which means that manual Joke:Win16/Winshoot removal might be impossible to less experienced Windows users, who are not knowledgeable enough to fight such secretive computer infections.

Since manual devious application’s removal might be impossible to some infected computers’ owners, we recommend everyone – professionals and inexperienced users, –to trust automatic removal tools to delete Joke:Win16/Winshoot. Once you download and run a reliable security application, the infection will be removed, and your system, with all private data within, will be guarded for time to come. Simply remember that all security tools should be updated regularly, so that no security breaches would be possible.