Saturday, July 13, 2013

How to Get Rid of Clkmon.com Virus



Is Clkmon.com a virus?

Clkmon.com is regarded as a hazardous browser hijacker infection, which can be installed onto your PC without permission after you download and install some free applications that may be infected by this virus already. Once Clkmon.com enters your PC, it will change your default search engine and start page on your browser by modifying some relevant settings in secret. Then, if you want to reset the home page and bookmarks that are messed up by this virus, you will be in vain. And it is quite impossible to finish this task after this virus changes your settings. Moreover, being a browser hijacker, Clkmon.com is able to redirect you search results to some unknown websites that are full of numerous ads. That is to say, searching for information online will be hardly capable of accomplishing for you. What’s worse, if you click on the ads that this virus displays, you probably encounter more trouble later. It is no doubt that Clkmon.com is really risky and malicious. Thus, you ought to get rid of it right now to prevent more trouble.






How to Remove Clkmon.com virus manually?

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

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Clkmon.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 Clkmon.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 Clkmon.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\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\“ShortcutPath”

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.

C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_64\Random
%Temp%\[random].bat
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Random

Be known that Clkmon.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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