How to Remove LookingLink
from IE/Chrome/Firefox
The
system is infected by LookingLink? Have sufferred lots of troubles from it? But
the antivirus cannot remove it from the browser? If you want help to remove LookingLink,
you can read this post and get rid of LookingLink from the system completely.
Introduction of LookingLink
LookingLink
is known as a malicious adware program that pretends to be a legal program but
carry out vicious tasks. Usually, a good toolbar or add-on will help users have
a better browsing activity. However, being a malicious extension, LookingLink
just messes up all browsers like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla
Firefox. In fact, its purpose is so evil that it just wants to enhance its
domain traffic by redirecting users to its own websites frequently. Once LookingLink
finds a way to invade your system, it will settle deep inside the machine to
escape the detection and removal of your antivirus program. Then this malicious
program will install automatically and forcedly onto your browser, which cannot
uninstall easily. Besides, LookingLink exploits leaks on the system, so that it
can introduce more other harmful infections to the machine. At that time, not
only your browser performs poorly, but also the system works weirdly.
Therefore, for the safety of your system, you should remove LookingLink right
away.
Major symptoms
of LookingLink
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 LookingLink 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 LookingLink 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 LookingLink, 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 LookingLink, 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 LookingLink 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 LookingLink
To
open the Registry Editor, you can click start menu and click run. Then, type
regedit in the box and click ok.
%appadata%random.exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\ LookingLink
Attention: you
need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result
in other complicate system problems.
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