Tuesday, July 16, 2013

How to Get Rid of Search.gboxapp.com Virus



Is Search.gboxapp.com a virus?

Search.gboxapp.com is a bogus site that has been identified as a browser hijacker by IT experts. Normally, without asking for your permission, this virus is able to intrude into your PC together with many other malicious viruses such as, Trojan horse, rogue, worms and so on. The ways of intrusion of this virus are vary from here to there. For example, it can invade your PC while you are browsing on malicious websites, or downloading freeware onto the PC. Besides, if you open a spam email carelessly, Search.gboxapp.com may infect your machine as well. Once this virus is inside, it will modify your browser settings as quickly as it can. Then your browser will be under its control and perform poorly. More specifically, when you try to open your browser, you will find the start page is replaced by Search.gboxapp.com. And if you want to visit some desired websites, you will be rerouted to other unwanted sites as a result. Besides, searching for some information online is quite difficult because the search results are always redirected to needless websites. To sum up, you should remove Search.gboxapp.com virus to make your browser work normally.







How to Remove Search.gboxapp.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{ rnd }
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun

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

C:\Program Files\GadgetBox\gadgetBoxTB.dll
C:\Program Files\GadgetBox\mytools.ini
C:\Program Files\GadgetBox\searchInstaller.exe


Be known that Search.gboxapp.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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