How to Get Rid of Ad.Xtendmedia.com Virus

Is Ad.Xtendmedia.com a virus?

Ad.Xtendmedia.com is labeled as a malicious browser hijacker virus, which is used to service numerous ads. Normally, this pest can invade a compromised PC via the leaks of network. Thus, if you are careless when surfing online, Ad.Xtendmedia.com will easily come into your PC. Once your PC is infected by this virus, you will be annoyed by lots of ads, which pop up on your screen constantly. Moreover, this virus will alter your browser settings and redirect your browser to undesired pages frequently. In fact, the true purpose of Ad.Xtendmedia.com is to mislead you to hit its domain as many as possible, so that the creators can make a profit by the diverting traffic. To achieve this goal, it may redirect your entire search results to its domain pages all the time. As a result, you cannot get any useful information from the Internet. Since Ad.Xtendmedia.com is a high risk to your machine, you are required to delete it as quickly as you can.

How to Remove Ad.Xtendmedia.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\[random]

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\[random]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer

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

%CommonAppData%\.exe

%Desktop%\System Check.lnk

%StartMenu%\Programs\System Check\ ad.xtendmedia.com.lnk

%StartMenu%\Programs\System Check\Uninstall ad.xtendmedia.com.lnk

Be known that Ad.Xtendmedia.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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