How To Protect The System From Smominru Botnet By Norton?
Smominru is a botnet which is popular to deliver a various malware and Trojans to infect the devices. Its primary work is to generate profit for its operator by mining cryptocurrency on infected computers. According to the research, it has already made about $2.3 million through mining activity and is the greatest mining botnet to date. Most of the victims of this malware are in Russia, India, Brazil and Taiwan. It has infected atleast half a million computer machines mostly residing on Windows servers.
Norton users are secured against Smominru botnet, so there is nothing to worry about this infection. Just run Liveupdate to make sure that you’ve the latest virus definitions and also run a full system scan.
To run Live update, follow the given instructions:
- Power on your laptop and open Norton application by clicking on its icon on the desktop screen. If it is not available on the desktop screen, go to Start button, type Norton in the search box and hit Enter key. Select the name of the application from the list of results.
- Wait for few seconds to load the program completely. Now, in the main window click on Security option.
- Select LiveUpdate option to move ahead with the procedure.
- It will take few minutes; wait till the Norton LiveUpdate is completed. Select OK button when finished.
- When you see the message “Your Norton product has the latest protection updates”. Exit the program and reboot the system.
Once this is done, run the full system scan to find any malicious program, file or other data on the computer.
- Open Norton program. Go to Security option and click on it to move forward.
- Locate Scans and select it to open a new screen.
- Now, click on Full System Scan. Select Go.
- Wait until the scan is finished. When done click Finish button.
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