Get Rid of The Gilda from Your Browser

How to Remove The Gilda from IE/Chrome/Firefox

The system is infected by The Gilda? Have sufferred lots of troubles from it? But the antivirus cannot remove it from the browser? If you want help to remove The Gilda, you can read this post and get rid of The Gilda from the system completely.

Introduction of The Gilda

The Gilda which is a browser hijacker can reside in computer randomly by some tricks and it will make computers get into serious and numerous troubles. The Gilda adds itself to all kinds of free programs like music players, PDF readers, download managers and so on, which we can download from internet resource. During the installations of those free applications, if you are not cautious enough about steps, you may not be able to notice the hints about additional programs. Thus, in the end The Gilda will be installed in your browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and IE.

Once installed, The Gilda modifies your browser default settings and makes itself become your search engine and start page. The purpose of this browser hijacker is making advertisements for commercial websites. It mixes your search results with irrelevant sponsored websites and allures you to click those links. The Gilda will track and record your private information such as your searching key words, browsing habits and so on and it will deliver the information to unknown third parties. Once you have realized that The Gilda has invaded and resided in your browsers, you are recommended to delete this vicious browser hijacker in time.

Major symptoms of The Gilda

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 The Gilda 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 The Gilda 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 The Gilda, 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 The Gilda, 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 The Gilda 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 The Gilda

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

%Temp%The Gilda\bin\random characteristic

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\

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