Get Rid of Gnj.tooldiv.net Virus from Your Browsers

How to Remove Gnj.tooldiv.net from IE/Chrome/Firefox

Do you always get a notification from Gnj.tooldiv.net which states that you need to update your browsers? Even you refuse to update, it still appears on your browsers? How to get rid of it?

Introduction of Gnj.tooldiv.net

If a warming window noting “your browser needs to update immediately!” constantly appears in your Mozilla Firefox browser, this means that your system is affected by a certain browser hijacker virus, whose name is Gnj.tooldiv.net. Firefox gives this fraudulent warning in order to fool you to think that the alert comes from the browser. In fact, malware designer make use of Gnj.tooldiv.net to deceive users to download the virus, which belongs to the browser hijacker family.

Even if you download software from this page, it even won’t upgrade your browser. This malware will infect your computer if you take an action to the update button. However, even though you do not do so, your computer cannot avoid from being affected. Your browser redirection indicates that Gnj.tooldiv.net has already infected your computer. This affection successfully changes the browser settings and redirects your browsers. For all of the above, we recommend you to use helpful anti-malware program to scan your system. There is a part below which can help you get rid of Gnj.tooldiv.net virus. Follow the removal instructions can not only clear away the threat but also protect your browser from being hijacked by this malware.

Major symptoms of Gnj.tooldiv.net

a.       Opening a new tab will result in Gnj.tooldiv.net or other unknown websites. 

b.       Clicking on a search result will be redirected to irrelevant pages.

c.       Browsers settings are modified without permission.

d.       Your computer will run slower and slower.

e.       The browser is always redirected to Gnj.tooldiv.net

Solution to uninstall Gnj.tooldiv.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 use a specific removal tool to get rid of Gnj.tooldiv.net virus. Please download it from below and remove this virus now.

Remove Gnj.tooldiv.net virus Manually

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 Gnj.tooldiv.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 Gnj.tooldiv.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 Gnj.tooldiv.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 Gnj.tooldiv.net

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

%AllUsersProfile%\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced “Hidden” = ’0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced “ShowSuperHidden” = 0′

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