Nuker

Nuker is a trojan that allows attacker to reboot, shut down or even crash the victim's computer which is connected to the internet. In most cases the nuker requires only the IP address of the target computer. When the attacker enters the IP address of the victim, the nuker sends some packets that made the victim's computer to restart, shut down or even to crash.

Removal of Nuker

The removal of Nuker is not so difficult. Most of the anti viruses available in the market is able to delete the Nukers. It can also be deleted manually. For manually disinfecting the nuker, we have to approach in different methods for different Operating Systems. The best way is to delete the malware manually and to reboot the computer. In Windows 9x and millenium Operating Systems just go to the command prompt and delete the file using the command DEL. eg. if the file name is nuke.exe in the windows folder, then just type:
DEL C:\WINDOWS\NUKE.EXE
and press ENTER key. Then reboot the system.
The manual disinfection is a risky process. So it is adviced for the users who have thorough knowledge about the operating system.

In the case of Windows NT, 2000, XP the first thing to be done is to rename (including its extension) the nuker and then restart the computer and then delete the file manually.

The manual disinfection is a risky process. So it is adviced for the users who have thorough knowledge about the operating system.

Note that you have to disable the system restore before manual disinfection. While renaming the file the Operating System will copy the original files to another folder for back up. This may result in the disinfection failure. So system restore must be disabled.

Disable or enable Windows Me System Restore

Disable or enable Windows XP System Restore