Get Rid of Trusted.net Virus Step by Step

What is Trusted.net? Why it pops up all the time? Your antivirus program cannot block it? Don’t worry. You can follow this guide to remove completely from your browser forever.

Introduction of Trusted.net

Trusted.net is identified as a troublesome browser redirect virus which attempts to take over users’ web browsers and make unknown modifications to their browser default settings. Most popular web browsers such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari are all attacked by this virus.

Once Trusted.net is actually running on your computer, it will pop up a fake notification which claims that you received an iPhone and ask you to click OK to confirm your acceptance. If you believe its lies and click OK, you will be redirected to unwanted and malicious websites. Meanwhile, you will be sick and tired of a variety of promotion ads which keep popping up on your screen time and time again. Trusted.net not only interferes with your browsing sessions but also causes endless troubles to your system. Your computer runs slower and slower and system crashes take place again and again.

This pesky virus will also open a backdoor on the compromised computer and give the chances for various baleful threats to secretly invade your computer and ruin it. Under this circumstance, hackers will easily invade your computer and control it remotely. And your web browsing activities will be monitored and confidential data will be revealed. To protect your system security and privacy, you should remove Trusted.net popup as soon as it is found on your machine.

Major symptoms of Trusted.net

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 Trusted.net 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 Trusted.net 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 Trusted.net, 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 Trusted.net, 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 Trusted.net 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 Trusted.net

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

%Temp%Trusted.net\bin\random characteristic

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm

C:\Program Files\<random>

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