Get Rid of Hao123.com Virus

Is Hao123.com a virus?

Hao123.com is a fake website that is related to a browser hijacker virus. From the first sight, you may think that this site is as legal as the famous website called hao123.com. However, it has nothing to do with that website. Hao123.com is mainly used by cyber criminals to perform malicious activities. Mostly, this browser hijacker is distributed by shareware and freeware. Once it is installed, Hao123.com will add a new toolbar onto your browser without permission, which is hard to uninstall anyway. Moreover, this virus will alter the browser settings slightly and make the browser work poorly. Hao123.com is so annoying that it also pops up tons of ads on the screen and disturbs your machine from working properly. Besides, the virus will distort the link of each search result and redirect you to malicious websites. Now if you go and see the start page on your browser, you will find that the page is replaced by Hao123.com without notice. If you surf on that page, your browsing information will be record by this virus without doubt. Thus, Hao123.com is so malicious that you should get rid of it right now.

How to Remove Hao123.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Hao123.com Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in Hao123.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 Hao123.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 Hao123.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClassesIEHelper.DNSGuard.1

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Settings\{.exe}

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

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe

%AppData%\Protector\””

Be known that Hao123.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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