Friday, November 8, 2013

Remove Pht.gzipserver.net Virus Quickly & Efficiently



Is Pht.gzipserver.net a virus?

Pht.gzipserver.net is a kind of stubborn browser hijacker infection, which is hard for many antivirus programs to remove once it is executed. Mostly, this malicious infection can come into your system together with the free programs that you download from the Internet. Once it is inside, this infection can install by itself and hide deep inside the system. So you cannot have any ideas when Pht.gzipserver.net is inside your system until it begins to perform malicious activities. First of all, this nasty infection will alter some browser settings to control the browser that you have installed on the system. Then, you will see the browser is hijacked to Pht.gzipserver.net every now and then when you use it. Moreover, you also encounter the redirect problems seriously when surfing the Internet. For instance, when you search for some information via your search engine, the search results are always redirected to unwanted websites. As a result, it is very impossible for you to dig out anything from the Internet. What’s worse, Pht.gzipserver.net has the ability to collect your browsing information and expose to a third party. In a word, it is better to get rid of this infection rather than keep it in the system. The earlier you remove Pht.gzipserver.net successfully, the safer for your system.





How to Remove Pht.gzipserver.net virus manually?

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

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Pht.gzipserver.net
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Pht.gzipserver.net\DisplayName Pht.gzipserver.net

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

%Programs%\Pht.gzipserver.net\Pht.gzipserver.net.lnk
%System32%\[Random Name].dll
 

Be known that Pht.gzipserver.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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