Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Remove ShopAtHome.com Virus



Is ShopAtHome.com a virus?

ShopAtHome.com is classified to be a really annoying browser hijacker virus that is used by malicious bad guys to perform illegal activities. Once this hijacker virus infects your PC, it will monitor your browsing activities and make some profit for the creators by selling the data to a third party. From this, you can see that  ShopAtHome.com is pretty malicious. Furthermore, this nasty hijacker will occupy lots of the system resources and make the machine run slower and slower. Your browser will be affected, which always works poorly and display endless ads. Apart from the browser’s behavior, you will encounter a large number of annoying ads that keep popping up on the screen frequently. However, it is not the most annoying thing. What really drives you crazy is that your entire search results are redirected to some other unwanted websites, which show up irrelevant information. Thus, from the troubles that ShopAtHome.com causes to you, you should delete it right now.



How to Remove ShopAtHome.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random


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

%Windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framwork\[random].exe
%System%[random].exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

Be known that ShopAtHome.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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