Get Rid of Nginx Redirect Virus

Is Nginx a virus?

Nginx is identified as a kind of redirect virus. It is a virus that is always bundled with a rootkit, which can help it get inside the target computer and root deep inside the system. Normally, once it is executed, it can infect all browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox. It can alter some browser settings, so that it can always take you to its domain all the time without your permission. Nginx may also redirect your search results to other malicious websites, which usually contain many other harmful viruses like Trojan horse viruses, ransomware, and rogue programs. As soon as you are redirected to those malicious sites, those additional viruses will catch this opportunity to come into your system without being noticed. By then, the whole system will be corrupted within a minute. As a result, the machine will run very strangely. Moreover, you will be forced to download additional programs onto the machine and those programs will use many traffic resources. Then you will see the browser is blocked heavily. Meanwhile, Nginx will pop up many annoying ads on the PC screen to interrupt your browsing activities. In summary, you need to remove Nginx virus to make the browser perform correctly.

How to Remove Nginx virus manually?

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

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

HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\[random]
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar “[random]

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

%Documents and Settings%\All Users\Application Data\~
%Documents and Settings%\Application Data\[random].dll

Be known that Nginx 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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