Thursday, November 14, 2013

Get Rid of Do-search.com Redirect Virus



Is Do-search.com a virus?

Do-search.com has been certified as a high level browser hijacker virus that can slip into your Windows by various ways. For instance, it hides in some freeware or shareware without your notice. So once you download one of those software into the system, you will get infected by this hijacker without doubt. Another channel is that Do-search.com injects its malicious codes in some popular websites or suspicious sites, by which it can enter your Windows as well when you visit those websites. If this hijacker is installed on the system, your browser will work strangely.

To begin with, the start page will be replaced by Do-search.com, which often pops some ads for you. Moreover, this hijacker may change some default settings, so that it can bring you to some vicious sites when you do some searching on the Internet. That is to say, Do-search.com is able to block you getting accurate information from the Internet. In addition, this hijacker will record your browsing items, by which it can figure out your browsing interests. Then, it will generate more ads that are associated with your interests and lure you clicking on them. In conclusion, Do-search.com is really a big problem, so you must get rid of it right away.

 




How to Remove Do-search.com virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon "Shell" = "[random].exe"
HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerDisallowRun


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

Be known that Do-search.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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