Sunday, July 21, 2013

Remove Pageset.com Virus



Is Pageset.com a virus?

Pageset.com is a fake website that is especially designed by cyber criminals to collect browsing habits on the compromised PC. In reality, it has been proved that Pageset.com is a malicious browser hijacker virus, which has the ability to slip into your system without notification. When it comes into your PC, what this virus will do first? Normally, your Internet settings will be its first target, which will be altered slightly without your permission. After that, at the very first beginning, you will see that your home page is changed to Pageset.com and you will be refused to change it back. Then, if you want to get some information from the Internet, it will be exceedingly difficult. That’s because all of your search results will be rerouted to some unwanted websites, which have little relevant information with your requirement. Furthermore, annoying ads will every now and then pop up on your screen when surfing online. To sum up, Pageset.com virus should be removed as soon as possible.

  





How to Remove Pageset.com virus manually?

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

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



HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” =
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings\{.exe}

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

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\serial.sys
C:\Users\Vishruth\AppData\Local\Temp\random.xml
 
Be known that Pageset.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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