Get Rid of DoughGo Virus from IE/Chrome/Firefox

How to Remove DoughGo from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Your browser is attacked by DoughGo? Getting lots of ads from Call for Great Tech Support pop-up? Don’t worry. This post provides a step-by-step guide to remove this annoying program and fix pop-up problem.

Introduction of DoughGo

DoughGo is an irksome adware program which screws up your enjoyment in surfing online by generating a series of pop-up ads when you are browsing the web with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. There are several recognized ways that your computer may encounter this virus without your knowledge such as corrupted websites, unreliable links, online games, etc. But the majority of victims get this adware via downloading free software packages without notice.

Once DoughGo gets installed onto your computer, your screen will be flooded by tons of commercial ads, various coupons, special discounts and other promotion information, which seriously interfere with your normal browsing activities. Apart from that, when you click on these ads which are generated by DoughGo, they may probably mislead you to harmful webpages which are associated with various viruses and malicious programs. Moreover, DoughGo is also capable of tracking your browsing habits and gathering your confidential details. There is no any benefit that you can gain from DoughGo, so we strongly recommend the immediate removal of this adware.

Major symptoms of DoughGo

a.       DoughGo pops up automatically and displays lots of annoying ads.

b.      When you open a new tab, you are redirected to DoughGo.

c.       Some settings of web browser will be changed without your permission.

d.      Many unknown programs are installed on the system.

e.       The system will run slower and slower.

Solution to uninstall DoughGo 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 DoughGo 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 DoughGo, 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 DoughGo, 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 DoughGo 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 DoughGo

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

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\

%AllUsersProfile%\

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www..com/?type=hp&ts=&from=tugs&uid="

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes "DefaultScope" = "{33BB0A4E-99AF-4226-BDF6-49120163DE86}

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems. So you are recommended to download a removal tool to delete DoughGo virus automatically, so that you can avoid other problems.