Sunday, August 11, 2013

Remove Digstar.com Virus



Is Digstar.com a virus?

Digstar.com is identified as a very nasty browser hijacker virus, which disguises itself as a pretty useful search engine like other reputable providers, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Hence, many PC users are misled by it’s appearance at the first sight. However, if you take close look at this fake site, you will fine that it is totally different from those legal search engine. Once Digstar.com is installed onto your machine mistakenly, it will alter some crucial browser settings, so that it can make the browser under its control. By then, Digstar.com can pop up automatically, when you browse on the Internet. Moreover, looking something up with the reliable search engine will make you depressed as well because the entire search results cannot meet your requirement. Once you type the question on the search box, you are just redirected to some other websites unexpectedly. And on those websites, you will see a lot of ads, which are displayed by Digstar.com. Besides, this pest is pretty exclusive that it will replace your homepage with its website and force you to surf on its related website. Thus, Digstar.com should be removed as soon as possible.


How to Remove Digstar.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run ‘Random’

4. Search those malicious files on your hard disk and completely delete all of its components.
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\~random


Be known that Digstar.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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