Get Rid of Rebateinformer Virus Completely

Is Rebateinformer a virus?

Rebateinformer is classified as a malicious adware program, which has infected thousands of computers all over the world already. Usually, this pest can install onto your machine without permission together with some free programs that you may download from some suspicious websites. Once Rebateinformer is inside the machine, it will change some default settings of the Internet, by which no matter when surf the Internet, you will be always redirected to Rebateinformer.com, which misleads you that it can help you save money when shopping online. However, the website that this virus pops up on your screen is a fake website that is used to cheat you of money. Once you surf on it, you will receive many annoying ads and clicking on its sponsored links will bring you to malicious websites all the time. And you should not look down upon those malicious websites because when you visit those malicious websites, other infections can use the vulnerability of websites to get inside your machine. By then, your machine will be damaged totally. So to safeguard your machine, you ought to get rid of Rebateinformer from the browser as soon as possible.

How to Remove Rebateinformer virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

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

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe
%UserProfile%\Desktop\Rebateinformer.lnk

Be known that Rebateinformer 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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