Friday, August 9, 2013

Get Rid of Localmoxie.com Virus



Is Localmoxie.com a virus?


Localmoxie.com is reported as a dangerous redirect virus, which is able to attack any vulnerable computers via bundling with spam attachment emails, free download, and many other unexpected channels. Hence, lots of PC users cannot know anything about its intrusion. Once Localmoxie.com penetrates into your system, it will try its best to affect the browser like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer by changing some browser settings underground. Then Localmoxie.com will display many annoying ads on the screen. When you click on the links of those ads mistakenly, you will be infected by other viruses, which can damage the security system seriously. In order to pop up more commercial ads for you, Localmoxie.com even install its toolbar on your browser to keep track of your browsing habits. Hence, it is quite dangerous. Besides, another troublesome thing is that every search result sponsored by this virus will have little relevant information with what you have searched. If you are careful enough, you will also see that the homepage is replaced by Localmoxie.com as well, which is unable to change back. In conclusion, Localmoxie.com should be removed as soon as possible, or it will cause more risky things on your PC sooner or later. 


How to Remove Localmoxie.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random “.exe”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
 

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.
%appdata%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
 
 

Be known that Localmoxie.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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