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How to Remove Spigot

Trojans is one of the most wide-spread threat in the internet. They can spread in lot of ways (torrents, e-mail attachments, video codecs etc.). Spigot as well as any other trojan can harm your PC in different ways. Originally, trojans stole just your e-mail contacts and some personal data. Nowadays, they can steal any type of private information, being serious threat. In this tutorial we will show how to deal with Spigot detect and remove it from your PC.

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Spigot is a backdoor trojan that allows unauthorized access to the creator of this threat to an infected computer. Usually,, backdoor uses port 6667. The existence of the file gspotbot.exe is an indication of a possible infection.

Spread itself through an emails with e-mail attachment screensaver.zip and text similar to this:

"Hi, look what a great screensaver"
Attachment: screensaver.zip

After unzipping and running file from this attach spigot starts its malicious activity. It also sends system and personal data back to the hacker, via IRC

Trojan's detail table

Trojan alias:

Executable file:

Threat class:

Affected OS:

Spigot

TorontoMail.exe

Trojan

Win32 (Windows 9x, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Seven)

Spigot infiltration

As we already said there numerous ways trojan can get to your PC from the internet. Spigot copies its file(s) to your hard disk. File name typical to Spigot is TorontoMail.exe. Then it runs itself and creates new startup key in registry with name Spigot and value TorontoMail.exe. If you will look into running processes list you will see some extra process with name like TorontoMail.exe or any random name that uses decent amount of your CPU.

If you would like to remove Spigot use WiperSoft Antispyware Malware Remediation Tool (see below)

Automatic Trojan Removal

So what is Spigot Removal Tool? Basically, it is the tool that will remove every file and registry key that was created by Spigot. It was created after analyzing all versions and types of this threat on test PCs and every file and key was added to the database. Removal Tool is updated regularly to make sure it can remove latest versions of Spigot:

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How to remove Spigot manually?

During all time since adding Spigot to our database we track it changes and add them in the list below, removing files mentioned from your hard drive and deleting them from starup list and also unregistering all corresponding DLLs will result cleaning your computer drom the trojan. But also, missing DLL's that can be removed or corrupted by Spigot should be restored from your Windows CD .

So, here is the simple process to remove Spigot:

1. Delete following processes form startup and files from your hard drive:

gspotbot.exe

temp1.exe

temp1.exe

temp2.exe

temp2.exe

2. Delete the following folders that are assosiated with Spigot:

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3. Finally, remove this registry keys:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Warning: Sometimes, trojan can use system file names or randomly generated names for its executable. We recommend you to use WiperSoft Antispyware Malware Remediation Tool for safe problem solution.

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Here are the descriptions of problems connected with Spigot and TorontoMail.exe we received earlier:

Problem Summary: Spigot

Hi,
i have deleted a few spigot plug ins in mozila firefox browser but after doing so there is no longer any searching capabilities in mozila FF. Please advise.