Monday, August 5, 2013

Remove Search.snapdo.com Virus



Is Search.snapdo.com a virus?

Search.snapdo.com is a kind of nasty redirect virus, which is produced to promote its malicious websites. When you see that this fake site pop up on the screen, you should pay attention to it and don’t try to click on any links on the page because any clicking will bring you to dangerous websites that are related to its domain. In general, this redirect virus may come into your machine together with some free downloads like music, videos, and games. Once Search.snapdo.com comes inside, it will affect your Google Chrome heavily by modifying some default settings without permission. If you want to restore the Google Chrome by reinstalling it or want to install another browser to get rid of this fake page, it won’t help in both ways. Sooner or later Search.snapdo.com will come back to affect the new installed browser again. Moreover, you will notice that there are lots of ads popping up on the screen to make you sick. And the homepage will be replaced by Search.snapdo.com without any consent. What’s more, when you look something up online, the search results will be redirected to irrelevant websites. Hence Search.snapdo.com is such annoying. What you should do now is to delete it without hesitation.





How to Remove Search.snapdo.com virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of Search.snapdo.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.snapdo.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.snapdo.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.snapdo.com Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Regedit 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\””
%AllUsersProfile%\Programs\{random}\

Be known that Search.snapdo.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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