Get Rid of Craigslist Ads Virus from Your browser Forever

How to Remove Craigslist Ads from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Craigslist Ads messes up your browser? It pops up repeatedly? Get redirected to other unwanted websites when search for something? Now, please use the following guide to remove it from the browser and stop redirections step by step.

Introduction of Craigslist Ads

Craigslist Ads is a notorious browser hijacker which absolutely will cause many unwanted damages to targeted computers. According to its name, you may figure out that this browser hijacker will affect your browsers by mainly inserting unnecessary and useless toolbar onto your browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari and so on. Exactly, if you once opened unsolicited attachments in your email box or visited unaccredited websites, you will see wicked and unfamiliar Craigslist Ads has been placed on your browsers. After that, when you surf online, you will always be reloaded to undesired websites tardily. And frequently you will be asked to reset your default homepages to unfamiliar and disliked websites. And there are many other changes in your computers which you may not be able to discover at the first time. For instance, other settings of your browsers may have been modified, which will result in poor web navigation; most of your search queries and browsing history may have been recorded and transferred to remote cyber hackers. From your search queries and browsing history, cyber hackers would be able to analyze them to get more valuable information about you. In order to decrease unnecessary troubles or losses, Craigslist Ads needs to be eliminated as it is found in computers.

Major symptoms of Craigslist Ads

a.       The homepage is suddenly replaced by other site.

b.      The search results on Google, Bring, or Yahoo are completely redirected to unwanted sites.

c.       The DNS settings are modified without permission.

d.      The system runs really slow.

e.       The browser is always hijacked.

Solution to uninstall Craigslist Ads efficiently

Commonly, this kind of adware can use rootkit technology to hide inside the system. So many antivirus programs cannot detect it and remove it completely. For this reason, you should carry out a manual removal. Please read the following guide carefully and remove Craigslist Ads right now.

Step one : make all vicious items disabled.

1.      Press Window+R at the same time, then type “msconfig” in the box of “Run” and click OK

2.      Select Startup and look for all malicious items that are related to Craigslist Ads, and stop them

Step two: Uninstall this program from Control Panel

For Win7 and Win Vista

Click Start menu, choose Control Panel, then double click Programs( and Features). Go to find out Craigslist Ads, and uninstall it.

For Win XP

Go to Start menu, Select “Settings”, and then go to Control Panel. After that, open “Add or Remove Programs”. In there, find out Craigslist Ads and remove it.

Step three: Get rid of extensions and add-ons and restore the browser

For Internet Explorer users

1.      Go to “Tools”

2.      Select Manage Add-ons

3.      Select “Search Providers”, then choose Google or Bring from the list to set it as your default search engine.

4.      Go to Tools, go to Internet Options. Then, click General tab to choose a website like Google.com and don’t forget to save the modifications by clicking OK.

For Google Chrome users

1.      Go to “Customize and control”>Settings

2.      Select “Basic Options”

3.      Set Google.com as your homepage, or you also can click “Manage Search Engines…”to select other website.

4.      Choose Google as your default search engine

5.      Select the “Search Result” and click “X” to remove it.

For Mozilla Firefox users

1.      Click magnifier, then select “Manage Search Engine…”

2.      Find out Search Result from that list and remove it, and then click OK.

3.      Go to “Tools”>click Options. Then, in General Tab, reset the homepage and search engine to your favorite site

Step four: Remove all files and registry entries related to Craigslist Ads

To open the Registry Editor, you can click start menu and click run. Then, type regedit in the box and click ok.

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems.