Remove Gim.mapopti.net Redirect Virus & Fix Popups

How to Remove Gim.mapopti.net from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Gim.mapopti.net attacks your web browsers and you cannot surf the Internet smoothly like before? How to get rid of this unwanted program and make your web browser perform normally as usual?

Introduction of Gim.mapopti.net

Gim.mapopti.net has been categorized as a kind of browser hijacker virus that target IE, Firefox and Chrome. Generally speaking, this virus is distributed via several stealthy ways (spam e-mails, corrupt websites, freeware, etc.). So if you are not careful enough, it will get the chance to attack your system. You should not look down upon Gim.mapopti.net, for it has the ability to trigger lots of severe problems. It can hijack your web browser through altering related settings.

Secondly, Gim.mapopti.net secretly injects its codes to the Windows registry, which makes it can activate itself with the system. Owing to its unauthorized activities, the Windows registry has been corrupted and the computer will not work as smoothly as usual. Thirdly, Gim.mapopti.net is an inferior search engine which is used to display ads-related results. Besides, owing to Gim.mapopti.net, you will be forced to visit unwanted websites which contain plenty of advertisements and pornographic information. Furthermore, your computer will run as slow as a snail, because Gim.mapopti.net not only generates tons of pop-up ads, but also installs many backdoor malware. They occupy the majority of system resources and make computer run slowly.

What’s worse, Gim.mapopti.net can monitor all your browsing activities on the sly, so that it is able to steal your confidential information and send the records to hackers. That is to say, apart from severe PC malfunctions, you are likely to encounter financial losses, privacy exposure or other irreparable losses.

All in all, Gim.mapopti.net is a dangerous virus that deserves your attention. And once it is found in your PC, you need to take immediate action to remove it.

Major symptoms of Gim.mapopti.net

a.       When you are surfing the Internet, you will always get lots of ads.

b.      Every time you open a new tab, Gim.mapopti.net can pop up automatically.

c.       Many default settings have been changed.

d.      Web browsers run slower and slower.

e.       Hijacking happens from time to time.

Solution to uninstall Gim.mapopti.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 Gim.mapopti.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 Gim.mapopti.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 Gim.mapopti.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 Gim.mapopti.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 Gim.mapopti.net

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.