Virus can be defined as a spiteful program which affects the functionality of a device, commonly computers. These programs are malicious files, which can enter into your system through internet, or by connecting other used devices like pen drive, external hard disks etc, to your system. There are many types of viruses that creep throughout the internet. These viruses are also getting advanced day by day to break into the strictest security system. Gphone.exe is amongst those viruses which can hinder the flow of your computer severely. Gphone.exe is a Trojan virus and attempts to change your browsers home page, precisely Internet explorer. This virus also attempts to open instant messaging services like Yahoo messenger and Gtalk. Let us know more about this virus program.

Gphone.exe is generally and file with .exe extension and measures 260 kb in size. You may not come to known about the existence of this malicious program as its icon is a folder type icon and is difficult to differentiate between other folders and gphone.exe file. Once the infected folder is clicked it can adopt the name of any other folder and create several .exe files. This virus is capable of not only changing the home page of your browser but also sends messages randomly to friends in your yahoo messenger or Gtalk list.

There are certain ways to remove gphone.exe virus. The first method is the simplest one and is competent of eradicating gphone.exe. All you need to do it, access your Task Manager and select ‘processes’. Within the processes menu you will be able to see various processes which are operating, you need to look for gphone.exe and stop the process from functioning. After you have deactivated the gphone.exe process you can now manually look for the gphone.exe file and simply delete it from the computer. Sometime it may happen that you are unable to access Task Manager. In such situations you can use general antivirus programs and run a scan to locate and quarantine or eradicate the virus infected gphone.exe file.