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Published by Scott on October 14, 2008 03:19 am under Spyware Help

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Do you know what Cutwail Trojan is?

DESCRIPTION

Cutwail Trojan is a severely dangerous Trojan horse infection that is usually found as part of another malicious program. It was found where Cutwail may be included in an illegal download of movie, song or software files. Cutwail may also be installed onto your system without you knowing about it making it very difficult to detect in some cases.

Cutwail or Trojan.Cutwail, may download other harmful files or programs without permission from the computer administrator. While Cutwail works in the background it could be performing many malicious actions while going undetected. It is very important to remove Cutwail Trojan if you have identified it as being on your system.

Aliases: Cutwail, Cutwail Trojan, Trojan.Cutwail.

Cutwail Removal Guide Automatic Removal Instructions

Cutwail Manual Removal Instructions

This manual removal method is for techie computer users. Cutwail manual removal may be difficult and time consuming to remove. There’s no guarantee that Cutwail will be removed completely. So read the Cutwail removal steps carefully and good luck.

Before you start: Close all programs and Internet browsers. Also back up your computer in case you make a mistake and your computer stops working.

Uninstall Cutwail Program
Click on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Double-click on Add/Remove Programs. Search for and uninstall Cutwail if found.
To stop Cutwail processes (view process removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type taskmgr. The click the Processes tab and you’ll see a list of running processes.
Search and stop these Cutwail processes:
restorer64_a.exe
Terry Santi.exe
Owner.exe
restorer32_a.exe
For each unwanted process, right-click on it and then select “End task”.
To Unregister Cutwail DLLs (view DLL removal steps)
Search and unregister these Cutwail DLLs:
There are no dll's.

To locate the Cutwail DLL path, go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. Type Cutwail and in the Look in: select either My Computer or Local Hard Drives. Click the Search button.
Once you have the Cutwail DLL path, go to Start and then click on Run. In the Run command box, type cmd, and then click on OK.
To locate the exact DLL path, type cd in order to change the current directory. To display the contents of the directory, use the dir command. To remove the DLL file type regsvr32 /u FILENAME.dll (FILENAME is the name of the file that you want to unregister).
To unregister Cutwail registry keys (view registry keys removal steps)
Go to Start > Run > type regedit > press OK.
Edit the value (on the right pane) by right-clicking on it and selecting the Modify option. Select the Delete option.
Search and delete these Cutwail registry keys:
restorer64_a
If your homepage has been changed, go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > click on the General > click Use Default under Home Page. Add the your desired default homepage, then click Apply > click OK. Open a new web browser to check that you have your desired default homepage.
Remove Cutwail Directories.
To find Cutwail directories, go to Start > My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files > Show the contents of this folder.
Search and delete the following Cutwail directories:
There are no directories.

Right-click on the Cutwail folder and select Delete.
A message will appear saying ‘Are you sure you want to remove the folder Cutwail and move all its contents to the Recycle Bin?’, click Yes.
Another message will appear saying ‘Renaming, moving or deleting Cutwail could make some programs not work. Are you sure you want to do this?’, click Yes.
To remove Cutwail icons on your Desktop, drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.

You’ve completed the Cutwail manual removal instructions!
I hope this article has helped you solve your Cutwail problems. If you want to contribute to this article, post your comment below.

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