Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Remove Lnksdata.com Virus



Is Lnksdata.com a virus?

Lnksdata.com is a browser hijacker infection that is able to cause annoying hijacking on the compromised computer and make PC users upset. In general, this infection can attack your system via free applications like cyber games, videos, photoshops and so on. Once you download those applications from suspicious websites, you are likely to install lnksdata.com into your machine as well. When your PC is infected by this hazardous virus, you would see some changes happening on your PC. First of all, homepage and search engine are replaced by lnksdata.com and you cannot get them back anymore unless you clean out the hijacker virus from the PC. Secondly, your search results are redirected to unwanted websites all the time after a modification is done on your browser settings. Thirdly, this despicable virus may keep popping up lots of advertisements on your screen to interrupt you when you are surfing the Internet. All in all, you should pay more attention to Lnksdata.com virus and remove it once it is detected.

  


How to Remove Lnksdata.com virus manually?

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

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Lnksdata.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 Lnksdata.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 Lnksdata.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\assembly\GAC_32\Random

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Randome 
%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random}\ 

Be known that Lnksdata.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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