Remove IRobinHood Redirect Virus Completely from Homepage

How to Remove IRobinHood from IE/Chrome/Firefox

How to remove IRobinHood from web browsers and stop popups? Don’t want to suffer more loss from this malicious program? Keep reading a find a solution to handle this malware.

Introduction of IRobinHood

Like LittleWeaver, IRobinHood redirects the home page with unknown search software. This software spreads mainly though downloading programs. It may infect your computer when you get free download from known pages or public websites. When you install the software, a hidden order is executing to install this adware as well. Normally, this procedure is neglected by victims especially when the computer carries out default setup. Users are not aware that if they delete certain check trace before the installation, their system could be protected from unexpected system alterations.

Usually, users think that the existence of this malware in the browser is virus affection. In fact, the home page redirection is not created by certain virus but by a malware, which mainly targets at driving traffic to lots of different web services as well as web products. To change traffic into profits with the usage of ads is the purpose of the designer of this adware.

Most users want to remove this malware at once because of its doubtful activities. First of all, you should delete the add-ons from the browser. In addition, it is also essential to remove relevant applications from the computer. The specific part in the following will provide you steps to get rid of this malware completely.

Major symptoms of IRobinHood

a.       IRobinHood generates endless ads to drive users crazy.

b.      Chrome, Firefox and IE are infected and work improperly.

c.       All search results contain malicious advertisements.

d.      Hijacking happens from time to time.

e.       The browsers run slower and slower.

Solution to uninstall IRobinHood 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 IRobinHood 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 IRobinHood, 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 IRobinHood, 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 IRobinHood 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 IRobinHood

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

%Temp%IRobinHood\bin\random characteristic

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\

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