Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Get Rid of 4-you.net Virus Step by Step



Is 4-you.net a virus?

4-you.net is labeled as a redirect virus that can bring many annoyances to infected users. In general, this virus won’t attack you if you are careful enough while surfing the Internet and protect the computer very well. However, once you visit some malicious websites or open some spam emails, 4-you.net can sneak into your PC and install by itself. That’s because this redirect virus is always associated with some vicious sites and spam attachment emails.

After this virus gets inside the computer, it will make chaos to mess up your browsing activities. Firstly, it will take over the browser by making some change to the default settings. After that, the browser will be often redirected to 4-you.net. On this website, you will receive many ads, which pop up all the time when you surf online. Moreover, 4-you.net will be likely to force you to install other additional programs on the system. Then, the PC resources will be used up, which can lead to slow system operation. Moreover, 4-you.net will replace the homepage without your permission. Later, what drives you crazy is that this redirect virus can reroute all search results to irrelevant websites, which show nothing useful information but some ads. Thus, you are supposed to remove 4-you.net to make the Internet activities carry on smoothly.





How to Remove 4-you.net virus manually?

If you want to manually get rid of 4-you.net Hijacker virus, you can go through the listed removal steps CAREFULLY.

1. Go to Control Panel and uninstall bad toolbars that result in 4-you.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 4-you.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 4-you.net Hijacker virus. Open Registry Editor and delete those malicious entries:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\4-you.net Redirect Virus
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\4-you.net Redirect Virus\DisplayName 4-you.net Redirect Virus


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

%Programs%\4-you.net Redirect Virus\4-you.net Redirect Virus.lnk
%AppData%\[RANDOM CHARACTERS]\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe

Be known that 4-you.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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