Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Get Rid of Plmx.packimage.net Redirect Virus



Is Plmx.packimage.net a virus?

Plmx.packimage.net has been defined as irritating browser hijacker virus, which is capable of changing some default settings of the infected systems. In this way, it not only can execute automatically, but also can bring many problems to you when you surf the Internet. Once Plmx.packimage.net is installed, the first terrible thing you may encounter is that tons of commercial ads pop up on the browser like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Safari. And whenever you open the browser, you will be forced to visit Plmx.packimage.net or other unknown websites. Moreover, when you want to use the decent search engine to search for some information, all search results will let you down very much for that they are totally redirected to undesired sites. In other words, you won’t get any useful information. Commonly, you probably let this virus come into the system while surfing on vicious websites or installing some free programs without reading the instruction carefully. That is to say, it is hard to know when Plmx.packimage.net is inside the machine. So you ought to leave far away from those suspicious stuffs. Unluckily, once infected, you should remove Plmx.packimage.net timely.




How to Remove Plmx.packimage.net virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\KB8456137 = "%LocalAppData%\KB8456137\KB8456137.exe

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

%AppData%\\.ini
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
 

Be known that Plmx.packimage.net 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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