Thursday, February 13, 2014

Get Rid of Mywebfind.com Virus from IE/Chrome/Firefox



How to Remove Mywebfind.com Browser Hijacker Step by Step

How to remove Mywebfind.com from homepage? It changes the browser settings and pops up tons of ads on the PC screen? Don’t worry. This post will tell you how to remove it step by step and you can get rid of it forever.

What is Mywebfind.com?

Mywebfind.com is known as a dangerous browser hijacker which is mainly used by shrewd SEO professionals for generating internet traffic of their own advertising websites. So undoubtedly, Mywebfind.com is able to hijack all current browsers such as Safari, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and many others. Normally, this browser hijacker will randomly penetrate into computers by attaching itself to mal-ware sites, susceptible links or infected network drive and so forth.



And also, when it firstly pops up its start page, you will not be able to distinguish whether it is malicious or not until it is reported as a malicious site by powerful antivirus tools, because its start page looks much like the other accredited websites. In this way, Mywebfind.com is able to secretly perform all its evil activities. Primarily, Mywebfind.com will corrode system parameters including settings, files of your search engines, browsers and other default programs, which makes them run slowly and tardily.

And every time you try to open your browsers for searches, you can’t go to proper websites for appropriate and reliable search results, but only receive various advertisements. If Mywebfind.com stays long inside your system, it will also be a threat to your privacy, too. Hence, as soon as you find it inside your system, you need to be well-prepared to permanently remove Mywebfind.com.



Mywebfind.com is really hazardous

a.       Mywebfind.com virus replaces the homepage and search engine
b.      Mywebfind.com virus modifies the system configurations with malicious intension
c.       Mywebfind.com virus generates many commercial ads
d.      Mywebfind.com virus weakens the whole system badly
e.       Mywebfind.com virus is hard to be removed



The reason why your security tool cannot detect Mywebfind.com

It is very sure that some antivirus programs cannot detect all PC threats completely. And Mywebfind.com should be one of the threats that are hard to remove. Commonly, it uses root kit technology to hide deep inside the system and changes its location all the time. Thus, many security tools cannot find out its location exactly, not to mention to remove it. In such situation, you should get rid of Mywebfind.com manually. Please read the following guide and remove this browser hijacker quickly and efficiently.

Get Rid of Mywebfind.com Step by Step

Step1. Remove its program from the PC
Open the control panel>find add or remove programs>uninstall Mywebfind.com

Step2. Delete all add-ons about Mywebfind.com from the browsers

Google Chrome
Click “customize and control”>settings>basic options>use google.com as the homepage and make Google as your search engine at “Manage Search”

Internet Explore

Click Tools>select “Manage Add-ons”>”search providers”>set Yahoo or other reputable search engine as your default one>go to “search results”>remove its add-ons


Mozilla Firefox

Click “magnifier”icon>Manage Search Engine…”>select “search results”>click the removal button


Step3. Remove all files that are associated with Mywebfind.com

%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe


Step4. Remove Mywebfind.com’s registry entries

Go to start menu>run>type regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe



Attention: the manual removal guide requires you to have some knowledge about computers. If you are an inexperienced computer user, you may operate mistakenly. Every wrong step will result in system programs. So you must be careful when remove Mywebfind.com.

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