Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Get Rid of Dss.drivefor.net Virus



Is Dss.drivefor.net a virus?

Dss.drivefor.net is a kind of hazardous web hijacker virus, which is similar with other hijacker viruses that have the ability to change the browser settings and cause annoyance. In general, you can catch this little pest from some malicious websites. Besides, you probably download it onto your machine together with some other free programs. Once Dss.drivefor.net is inside your PC, it will make all browsers that you have installed on the PC perform poorly by changing their default settings. And then, you will see the browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox are redirected to Dss.drivefor.net frequently. Moreover, Dss.drivefor.net will be used as a platform to display many commercial ads. So you will absolutely get a large number of ads that keep popping up on your screen from time to time. In addition, Dss.drivefor.net may bring other unwanted programs onto the computer to perform malicious activities. By then, the system will be clouded lots of malicious files, which lead to low system running. Hence, you should remember that Dss.drivefor.net is not safe, which is a kind of PC threat that should be removed immediately.





How to Remove Dss.drivefor.net virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “DisableTaskMgr” = 1


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

%UserProfile%\Start Menu \ Dss.drivefor.net \ Dss.drivefor.net. lnk
%UserProfile%\Start Menu \ Dss.drivefor.net \Help. Lnk

Be known that Dss.drivefor.net 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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