Zeus is a dangerous malicious application that is aimed primarily at stealing the banking details of targeted users. This spyware is considered to be one of the most used by hackers in the whole world. Hackers have been using a Zeus Builder Toolkit to design their own Zeus virus with the functions they do want (or not). If you do see names like PRG or WSNPoem, they all refer to Zeus. The following website Remove Zeus Botnet has lots of infos about Zeus Botnet.
This virus (Zeus Botnet) will reach your computer using emails (spam ones) that seems to come from good and legit companies (websites). Those emails are full of various links to many dangerous web pages. On those pages, you will be asked to download some file besides being asked for some personal infos. You will get into that download one of the many variants of the Zeus Botnet that will install itself unto your computer system. Some people have reported recently having been infected by one of the many variants of that virus when visiting social websites like Facebook and MySpace. You could then receive on such social network a message asking you to download/install a new update for your personal profile. You already guessed it: that update is but one of the many variants of the Zeus Botnet. Check here Computer Repair for an online service that will help you clean your PC.
It will then proceed once it has infected your computer to wait for you to connect to the Internet. Zeus will download a long list of bank from the Internet. The virus will try to get your infos. Whenever the user visits a website on the list, Zeus Botnet will initiate a keylogger function and save all the keystrokes of the user. You might eventually find out that this virus has infected your IE/Firefox/Chrome also. The virus will add false fields to any web forms you might try to fill. The result will be you will give out more personal info to those cyber criminals. So this virus will send on a regular basis all that personal infos it has gathered about you to the hackers behind it.
Your privacy will get compromised a lot by this threat. So you should delete it from your personal computer the moment you’re aware you are infected. One of the important steps is to conduct a full system scan using genuine antivirus software as it can properly detect this type of malware.
If you’re going to do a manual removal of that virus from your system, you should be very careful when doing such steps. You have 2 things to do when you do try to manually clean your PC from that virus: to stop its process and to delete its main file.