Saturday, July 27, 2013

Get Rid of Goingonearth.com Virus



Is Goingonearth.com a virus?

Goingonearth.com is a stubborn browser hijacker virus, which is hard to get rid of once it comes into your system. Usually, after this hazardous hijacker infects the PC, you will see the page Goingonearth.com keeps popping up every now and then, when you use the Internet. Thought you visit this page unwillingly, you cannot stop it from popping up no matter how hard you try. Moreover, this annoying pest may change your home page and default search engine with its domain websites without your permission. What’s more, lots of annoying ads will show up on your screen to disturb you to use the computer properly. Normally, Goingonearth.com can affect your browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and IE. Therefore, you cannot use your browser as usual, for that it will be hijacked to some other websites that may contain malicious codes. Thus, if you want to get your browser work correctly, you ought to remove Goingonearth.com from your system as quickly as you can.


  


How to Remove Goingonearth.com virus manually?

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

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Goingonearth.com 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 Goingonearth.com 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 Goingonearth.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ActiveSetup\Installed Components\random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\
4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

C:\Windows\system32\taskhost.exe
C:\Windows\system32\Dwm.exe
C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE

Be known that Goingonearth.com 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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