Remove W32/Gibe

W32/Gibe Description

W32/Gibe is a worm that is designed to install onto your computer without your knowledge and consent. W32/Gibe spreads itself through email in messages with infected executable attachments. It usually arrives in an email message, which is disguised as a Microsoft Internet Security Update and it has the attachment Q216309.exe. Once it is executed, W32/Gibe will use Microsoft Outlook and its own SMTP engine to spread. W32/Gibe also attempts to copy itself to all locally mapped remote drives.

Remove W32/Gibe

To remove all W32/Gibe files, you must kill all W32/Gibe processes that are running in your computer's memory. To kill W32/Gibe processes, press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to open the Windows Task Manager. Click on the "Processes" tab, search for W32/Gibe, then right-click it and select "End Process" key.

You'll also need to remove W32/Gibe registry keys. To remove W32/Gibe registry keys, click on the Windows "Start" button and select "Run" to open Windows Registry Editor. A window will popup. Type "regedit" into the box, and click "OK". Search for the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareW32/Gibe." Right-click it and select "Delete."

Finally, you'll need to manually delete other malware files to clean your PC of  W32/Gibe. These W32/Gibe can be in the form of EXE, DLL, LSP, TOOLBAR, BROWSER HIJACK, and/or BROWSER PLUGIN. For example, W32/Gibe might create a file like
%PROGRAM_FILES%W32/GibeW32/Gibe.exe. Locate and remove these files.

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