Steps to Get Rid of Taplika.com Homepage Virus

Taplika.com suddenly replaces your homepage and shows up on your web browser from time to time? If you are very annoyed, you can read the following post and remove Taplika.com from your homepage.

Description of Taplika.com

Like many other browser hijacker viruses, Taplika.com is a bogus website search that pretends to offer abundant information for you. However, to tell you the truth, it is used by cyber criminals to drag inflated traffic to their domain, by which they can gain improper money. The more you are forced to visit Taplika.com, the more benefit they will gain.
Once your machine is infected by this stubborn virus, your browser will be led to bad behavior, for that this virus will alter your Internet settings. In this way, it will reroute your search results to Taplika.com as well. It means that if you look up some information with your legal search engine, the ultimate page you will get is Taplika.com rather than the right one. So you won’t expect to get what you are looking for.
The worst thing is that this stubborn virus is so good at playing hide-and-seek that lots of antivirus cannot catch it, let alone delete it. By the way, this page will display a large number of commercial ads for you, which is extremely annoying. You know, in the cyber world, advertising means profit, so by displaying ads, the cyber criminals can benefit a lot. In a word, if you want to get out of this situation, you must delete Taplika.com now.

Screenshot of Taplika.com

Annoyances that are caused by Taplika.com:

1.Taplika.com virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.Taplika.com virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove Taplika.com virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of Taplika.com from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.

2.Display all hidden files so as to remove Taplika.com's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel

②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options

③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.

Then you will see the following Screenshot:

Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!

How to Open & Back up the Registry