What Is Trojan-Spy.Win32.GreenScreen?  It’s spyware that is used by hackers causing pop-ups and false security alerts.  Trojan-Spy.Win32.Greenscreen captures images from your computer which is accessible by the hackers who created this spyware.  The spyware however, is used mostly to get you to buy an anti-spyware program from the hacker.

When the fake alert appears — and you click “enable protection” a pop-up window appear telling you to purchase the anti-spyware program highlighted on the site.  You don’t have to buy anything.  Here’s a way to manually remove Trojan-Spy.Win32 Greenscreen from Windows for FREE.

How Were You Infected With the Trojan-spy.Win32.Greenscreen?  There are 4 common ways to be infected by the Trojan-Spyware?

1. Downloading Freeware
2. Downloading Shareware
3. Peer-to-Peer Software Sharing
4. Visiting Questionable Websites

Don’t be sad.  I have 2 antivirus programs and I use a phishing filter and pop-up blocker and I got infected by the Trojan.

Steps to Manually Remove Trojan-Spy.Win32.Greenscreen

• You will have to do the following steps the same day you got infected
• Log-Off your computer and select restart
• Restart in safe-mode by hitting F8 upon start-up
• Go to the start menu –> select run –> type “C:\windows\system32″ sort files by date
• Find today’s date or the date you were infected and delect all files with that date (make sure you can see your hidden files)
• Go to start menu –> select accessories –> select clean disk
• Go to start menu –> select control panel –> select internet tools and delete all history and temporary internet files
• Go to accessories –> select system tools –> select restore
• Restore to the first date you were not infected
• Once the restore process is completed and you system has restarted –> Your Done! Your system could be back to normal
• To double check that your system is rid of the trojan-spy.win32.greenscreen go to the start menu –> select run –> type “taskmgr.exe” if the window appear your trojan infected is gone

Symptoms of Trojan-Spy.Win32.Greenscreen

1. You will not be able to access your task manager (taskmgr.exe) — you will get a system error
2. You can not deleted the infected files until you are in “safe mode”
3. There a red/white X in the task bar, which keeps alerting you that your system is infected

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