Get Rid of Quiknowledge Popup Virus from IE/Firefox/Chrome

What is Quiknowledge?

The website Quiknowledge has been categorized as a vicious browser hijacker virus and it is able to attack all popular web browsers, including IE, Firefox and Chrome. Through packing itself with spam e-mails, corrupt websites and freeware, Quiknowledge popup virus can stealthily get inside your system. Therefore, when surfing on the Internet, you should be more careful and don’t open suspicious files easily. As a typical redirect virus, Quiknowledge popup virus will hijack your web browser, as well as cause frequent redirect. As a result, in the infected machine, you can smoothly use the web browsers.

Besides, Quiknowledge popup virus can activate and update itself automatically, because it has already injected its codes to the Windows Registry. Moreover, there will be numerous pop-up advertisements and fake security alerts appearing on your screen, which not only affects computer working, but also may introduce additional malware.

Furthermore, the worst thing is that Quiknowledge is able to endanger your privacy safety, which means, it can monitor your browsing activities and transmit the stolen data to remote hackers. So, if you don’t get rid of this nuisance timely, it may lead to irreparable losses. In a word, to avoid greater damage, we strongly recommend you deploying a powerful antivirus and using it to eradicate Quiknowledge popup virus as soon as possible.

Quiknowledge is really hazardous

a.       Quiknowledge virus breaks into your PC via illegal ways

b.      Quiknowledge virus pops up all the time to corrupt your PC

c.       Quiknowledge virus changes default settings of the system

d.      Quiknowledge virus induces other dangerous infections to attack the target computer

e.       Quiknowledge virus displays tons of malicious ads and lure you to click on them.

The reason why your security tool cannot detect Quiknowledge

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And Quiknowledge should be one of the threats that are hard to remove. Commonly, it uses root kit technology to hide deep inside the system and changes its location all the time. Thus, many security tools cannot find out its location exactly, not to mention to remove it. In such situation, you should get rid of Quiknowledge manually. Please read the following guide and remove this browser hijacker quickly and efficiently.

Get Rid of Quiknowledge Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC

Open the control panel>find add or remove programs>uninstall Quiknowledge

Step2. Delete all add-ons about Quiknowledge from the browsers

Google Chrome

Click “customize and control”>settings>basic options>use google.com as the homepage and make Google as your search engine at “Manage Search”

Internet Explore

Click Tools>select “Manage Add-ons”>”search providers”>set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to “search results”>remove its add-ons

Mozilla Firefox

Click “magnifier”icon>Manage Search Engine…”>select “search results”>click the removal button

Step3. Remove all files that are associated with Quiknowledge

C:\Program Files\Quiknowledge\Service\qksvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Quiknowledge\IE\QuiknowledgeClientIE.dll

Step4. Remove Quiknowledge’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\FIREFOX.EXE\shell\open\command "(Default)" = "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe http://www..com/?type=sc&ts=&from=tugs&uid="

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes "DefaultScope" = "{33BB0A4E-99AF-4226-BDF6-49120163DE86}"

Attention: the manual removal guide requires you to have some knowledge about computers. If you are an inexperienced computer user, you may operate mistakenly. Every wrong step will result in system programs. So you must be careful when remove Quiknowledge.