Get Rid of Ipcloudbox404.com Popup Virus Completely

How to Remove Ipcloudbox404.com from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Does Ipcloudbox404.com appear in your web browser without your permission? Is your homepage is changed to unfamiliar webpage? Are there many advertisements popping up on your screen? If your answers are YES, we are sorry to inform you that your computer is infected with Ipcloudbox404.com virus.

Introduction of Ipcloudbox404.com

Ipcloudbox404.com is a browser hijacker virus that targets all popular web browsers. So, no matter you are using IE, Firefox or Chrome, if you are not careful enough, Ipcloudbox404.com will get the chance to attack your system. As a malicious infection, Ipcloudbox404.com has many harmful properties. To begin with, it can alter browsers and DNS settings without your consent. So that, after invasion, you will find that your homepage is replaced by suspicious websites, and Ipcloudbox404.com is appended to the browser as a functional plug-in.

Secondly, when you do online searches, Ipcloudbox404.com generates many ads-related links and allures you to visit those sites. In this way, it can enhance the online traffic of those sites and help hackers make plenty of money. And this is why similar viruses are widely spread around the cyber world. Thirdly, computer running will be seriously slowed down by Ipcloudbox404.com, for it generates continuous pop-up ads and fake security alerts which occupy a big part of system resources. What’s more, the worst thing is that Ipcloudbox404.com is a huge threat to your privacy and significant data, because it can collect valuable information in the infected machine, like browsing interest, logins, identities and passwords. So, there is no doubt that apart from PC problems, Ipcloudbox404.com will trigger more severe consequences and bring greater losses to you.

In a word, for the good of yourself, you need to uninstall Ipcloudbox404.com and eliminate other malware immediately.

Major symptoms of Ipcloudbox404.com

a.       Your desired websites are often redirected to unknown websites

b.      Popups appear on your screen frequently

c.       System configurations are totally messed up.

d.      Many system functions are disabled.

e.       You will come across many annoying ads when surfing the Internet.

Solution to uninstall Ipcloudbox404.com 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 Ipcloudbox404.com 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 Ipcloudbox404.com, 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 Ipcloudbox404.com, 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 Ipcloudbox404.com 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 Ipcloudbox404.com

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ’0′

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems. Or you can download an automatic removal tool to get rid of this virus completely.