Get rid of L.yimg.com Virus

Is L.yimg.com a virus?

L.yimg.com is defined as a kind of annoying browser hijacker infection, which is able to redirect the browser to its malicious domain frequently once it invades your system successfully. At the very beginning you may probably think that you visit this website by chance. However, soon you will find that this fake website pop up every time you open your browser. In fact, L.yimg.com is bundled with a rootkit, so that’s the reason why you often hit this website repeatedly. Once L.yimg.com is installed, it will affect the browser first. As a consequence, no matter what kind of browsers you are using, you will be redirected to L.yimg.com unwillingly. Moreover, searching for something online will get some redirections, which prevents you from getting the right information. If you take a close look to your homepage, you will see the homepage is replaced by other unknown website without permission. What’s more, L.yimg.com is often used to promote malware, which can collect your visited websites to perform malicious activities. All in all, you should not trust L.yimg.com anyway and keep it far away from your machine. Please remove this hijacker virus right now to protect the PC.  

How to Remove L.yimg.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ L.yimg.com
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\L.yimg.com \DisplayName L.yimg.com

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

%AllUsersProfile%\{random}
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

Be known that L.yimg.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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