Instruction to
Remove DriverUpdate.net Virus Quickly & Completely
Having
troubles by lots of annoying ads that are generated by DriverUpdate.net? Having
little information about it? Getting redirected repeatedly when surfing the
Internet? How to Remove DriverUpdate.net virus completely from
IE/Firefox/Chrome?
The definition
of DriverUpdate.net browser hijacker
DriverUpdate.net which is a browser hijacker
can have bad effects on Chrome, IE or Firefox. Once
your computer is contaminated, the first thing happens in your computer is that
your original search provider and homepage can turn into DriverUpdate.net
automatically without permission. It looks almost the same as other usual
search websites, but there exists something different that you should figure
out.
DriverUpdate.net will bundle itself with the free
applications like PDF readers, music player and so on which you will download
from internet. Users always don’t pay enough attention to this virus because they
just have a quick look about the steps and keep clicking the button “Next”
during installation. You are recommended to follow every step carefully while
installing those free programs so as to protect your computer from not being infected
by DriverUpdate.net. Once there are some hints asking you to download strange
programs, you should deselect extra programs if you don’t know whether they are
useful or safe.
Once you use DriverUpdate.net to search something, you will find that the search
results will include numerous useless sponsored links. DriverUpdate.net aims at
making advertisements for those websites so as to increase their click rate. So
it’s quite annoying that you cannot get the search result which you actually
want. DriverUpdate.net uses unfair measure to mess up
your computer so it’s essential to remove it as soon as possible.
The dangers of DriverUpdate.net
virus:
a. DriverUpdate.net
virus will keep track of victims’ browsing activities and search items.
b. DriverUpdate.net
virus will change homepage without asking users’ permission.
c. DriverUpdate.net
virus will screw up the system through corrupting system files and entries.
d. DriverUpdate.net
virus will redirect all desired websites to unwanted pages.
e. DriverUpdate.net
virus can consume lots of system resources and degrade the system performance.
If
you keep this infection in your system for a long time, your PC will get more
severe damage. You want to remove it right now? What is the most effective way
to delete it from the browser? In fact, there are two ways to get rid of such
dangerous infection. The first one is manual removal. The second one is
automatic removal. Both of them are available.
Solution one:
How to remove DriverUpdate.net virus manually?
Step 1:
resetting DNS settings
1. Open
your Control Panel
2. Choose
“View network status and task” in “Network and Internet”
3. Find
Network and Sharing Center and click “Chang adapter settings”
4. Select
the corresponded network adapter as you are using and click “Properties”
5. Select
“Internet Protocol Verrion4(TCP/IPV4)
6. Choose
“Use the following DNS server addresses:”
7. Set “
preferred DNS server” to 8.8.8.8
Step2:
check out all vicious files and delete all of them
%AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI41962\pyexpat.pyd
Step3:
Delete all registries keys that are related to DriverUpdate.net
Go
to the Start Menu at the bottom left of your screen>click “run”>type “regedit”
in the box>select and delete all the following registry values
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{98889811-442D-49DD-99D7-DC866BE87DBC}
Step4:
Stop all suspicious programs running through Manage Task( delete + alt + ctrl)
Solution two:
How to remove DriverUpdate.net automatically?
As
you know, the registry editor is a very important place. So once you delete the
wrong files, many other system errors will be triggered. Thus, an automatic way
is more efficient and safer. You can download a removal tool here to remove
this annoying pest.
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