Get Rid of Web Connect Virus

Is Web Connect a virus?

Web Connect should be an additional program that is able to make many troubles to users who install it on their machine. Mostly, this program can be installed onto browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. Once installed, Web Connect will deceive you that it can make your browsing activities faster and more convenient. However, it only enhances the load of your browser. As a matter of fact, Web Connect is used by cyber criminals to perform malicious activities. For instance, it will change your browser settings on the background, by which this malicious program can replace the start page on the browser with other unwanted website and redirect every new tab to its domains as well. Furthermore, Web Connect will display many coupon ads on your screen when you are surfing the Internet. And many inexperienced users may think that it can save money for them. However, those coupons are not real, which are often bundled with malicious codes. Besides, sooner or later, Web Connect will make the Internet speed become slower and slower. By then, you will find that opening a website cost double time than before. Thus, Web Connect is not a trustful program that should be removed from the machine immediately.

How to Remove Web Connect virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ Web Connect

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating

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

C:\Program Files\Web Connect\sqlite3
C:\Program Files\WebConnect\updateWebConnect

Be known that Web Connect 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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