Remove Lightning SpeedDial Virus from Web Browser

Instruction to Remove Lightning SpeedDial Virus Quickly & Completely

Lightning SpeedDial attacks your computer without your permission? Your browser is full of annoying ads? How to stop those pop-up ads that are caused by Lightning SpeedDial? Please keep reading this post and remove Lightning SpeedDial step by step.

The definition of Lightning SpeedDial browser hijacker

Similar with other redirect viruses, Lightning SpeedDial aims at increasing the click rate of particular commercial websites and making money. Your main browsers Chrome, Firefox and IE can be infected. You won’t realize the existence of Lightning SpeedDial until your search engine and homepage are changed to Lightning SpeedDial.

Lightning SpeedDial always bundles itself with other free programs which can be downloaded from internet resource. So Lightning SpeedDial can be installed in your computer without your permission. Thus, to protect your computer from installing unwanted programs, you should be more careful about steps of installations of these free programs. If you notice there are options for additional unknown applications, remember to deselect them.

If Lightning SpeedDial has invaded and resided in your computer, it will make your browsing experience very disturbing. The interruptions and redirections which are caused by Lightning SpeedDial will make you hard to find accurate search results. The worse thing is that Lightning SpeedDial will follow and record your searching key words, browsing habits and other private information and deliver them to remote servers for getting revenue. Therefore, it’s very essential that you should remove Lightning SpeedDial from your computer as soon as possible.

The dangers of Lightning SpeedDial virus:

a.       Lightning SpeedDial virus will keep track of victims’ browsing activities and search items.

b.      Lightning SpeedDial virus will change homepage without asking users’ permission.

c.       Lightning SpeedDial virus will screw up the system through corrupting system files and entries.

d.      Lightning SpeedDial virus will redirect all desired websites to unwanted pages.

e.       Lightning SpeedDial 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 Lightning SpeedDial 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

%CommonAppData%\pcdfdata\config.bin

%AppData\Local\Temp\_MEI41962\pysqlite2._sqlite.pyd

Step3: Delete all registries keys that are related to Lightning SpeedDial

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Associations

Step4: Stop all suspicious programs running through Manage Task( delete + alt + ctrl)

Solution two: How to remove Lightning SpeedDial 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.