Sunday, July 28, 2013

Get Rid of FaceSmooch Virus



Is FaceSmooch a virus?

FaceSmooch is an unwanted application that can be downloaded onto your system without you approval by bundling itself with some kinds of free resources downloads. In fact, FaceSmooch is labeled as an adware virus, which is able to make chaos on your system once it is inside. When FaceSmooch penetrates into your machine, some annoying symptoms will begin happening on your PC. First of all, the default search engine and the start page on your browse will be replaced by FaceSmooch.com, which cannot be restored by all means. Secondly, by changing your browser settings secretly, FaceSmooch can redirect all of your search results to some malicious websites, which have nothing to do with your question. Moreover, you may be disturbed by lots of commercial ads, which keep popping up on your screen every now and then. Besides, FaceSmooch will take up a large part of your system resources and slow down your system operation. Gradually, you will see that opening a website takes more seconds and launching the system will also cost more time. Since FaceSmooch is very dangerous and annoying, you should delete it from your machine as quickly as you can.



  

How to Remove FaceSmooch virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of FaceSmooch Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in FaceSmooch Hijacker redirect problem

2. After that, for IE users, you need to go to "Manage Add-ons" to uninstall bad add-ons if there is any.

For Chrome users, you need to open "Settings" and delete FaceSmooch Hijacker from your start page and search engine

For Firefox users, you can go to "Add-ons" and remove its malicious toolbars and revert your default start page and new tab page.


3. There are many things to do if you want to manually get rid of FaceSmooch Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

Key:SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{856E12B5-22D7-4E22-9ACA-EA9A008DD65B}
Key:SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{AA74D58F-ACD0-450D-A85E-6C04B171C044
Key:SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\FaceSmooch Smileys

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.
 
%Application Data%\Minibar
%Program Files%\FaceSmooch Smileys
%Program Files%\Minibar

Be known that FaceSmooch Hijacker is very cunning and can change its file locations anytime. So please CAREFULLY edit your registry and delete its files.


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