Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Get Rid of Storimbo Redirect Virus Completely



Is Storimbo a virus?

Storimbo is a dangerous browser hijacker that disturbs your normal Web browsing and do harm to the system security seriously. It is usually spread via free downloads from insecure websites, spam email attachments etc.

Just like other browser viruses, it changes your browser settings and search engine unknowingly. For instance, it keeps popping up all kinds of ads and redirecting you to commercial websites that promote products or service when you are surfing on the Internet or searching information. In this way, Storimbo can help sponsors sell commercial products, who are in collusion with the virus creators. In addition, it can also promote the traffic and increase the rankings of those unknown websites. These activities interfere with users’ browsing experience badly.

Meanwhile, those websites and pop-ups are probably associated with malicious codes. It is worth mentioning that cyber criminals utilize Storimbo to invade the infected system and steal users’confidential information to engage in illegal activities. Meanwhile, you will also find other kinds of consequence like slow system operation, crashing systems and so on. All in all, Storimbo is a harmful browser hijacker virus. Thus, it is necessary to remove it as soon as possible once this virus is detected on your machine.

 




How to Remove Storimbo virus manually?

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

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

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{EE932B49-D5C0-4D19-A3DA-CE0849258DE6}
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{4E27A2A6-40B0-0A82-C215-C9C3E07E9206}


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

%StartupFolder%\ch810.exe {Storimbo}
%AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI41962\pyexpat.pyd

Be known that Storimbo 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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