How to Completely Remove gossipcenter.com Redirect Virus

IE, Firefox and Chrome are saddled with gossipcenter.com redirects? Having pulled out all the stops but coming to no avail? Are you looking for an effective approach to get rid of of gossipcenter.com redirect virus? This post will focus on manual means supported by Tee Support 24/7 online tech team which is confirmed to be able to fight against such stubborn browser malware. 

What is gossipcenter.com? 

gossipcenter.com poses as a plain site where you can read latest entertainment news and watch  videos of some stars and celebrities. It may be relaxing when dropping by such kind of sites, whereas if your regular searches are diverted to it frequently, please beware: You are hit by a Google Redirect Virus which is aimed at causing artificially inflated traffic to make profits and making chaos on the target machine. Such sneaky virus generally bundles with freeware or shareware and sneaks into the system when users manually download the install them. 

You may also have taken notice of the severely lagged response together with pestering ads linked with suspicious sites even since the infection. Some observant users also noted that the there are many extra unknown sites which are added to bookmark files and the failure to update current browser version. However it remains unknown to most users that a browser hijacker, taking gossipcenter.com as an example, will promote the introduction of other infectious toolbar and downgrade system defense to make the computer prone to other malware.

We cannot estimate the threats of a browser virus too much, since it will not only cause redirect Google and Yahoo search queries, but also exploit security breaches to distribute other cyber pests to cause further corruptions. Thus it's quite important for users to safely and completely remove gossipcenter.com as early as possible.

gossipcenter.com Malware Removal

It’s nothing strange that emptying cache history, deleting temp files and removing tracking cookies all does no help to stop gossipcenter.com virus. The  re-installment of the affected browser does not help either. To make things worse, almost all antivirus or scanning utilities fail to pick up the real issue, the redirect keeping popping up to bother you. To manually remove a virus, we need to locate and delete its processes, files and registry entries and it cannot be done without expertise. Below is the referential steps on how:

Step 1 : Go to Task Manager with Alt+Ctrl+Delete and stop its process.

random.exe

Step 2: Search for and delete its related files in Local Disk C:

%AllUsersProfile%\{random}

C:\WINDOWS\System64/32\svchost.exe

C:\WINDOWS\system64/32\spoolsv.exe

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll

%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

Step 3: Navigate to remove the registry entries associated as below in Registry Editor:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run “.exe”

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ random

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName = C:\WINDOWS\Network Diagnostic\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\explorer\shelliconoverlayidentifiers\random

Notes:  If you are still confused with above procedures, please click here to contact a 24/7 online expert for more details.