Tuesday, November 13, 2012

How to Get Rid of Homepage search.openmediasoft.com From IE, Firefox & Google Chrome

Noticed that the Google homepage taken over by search.openmediasoft.com and it comes back after the reset? If you are searching for an effective solution to completely remove search.openmediasoft.com, you may find the answer from this page and the backup Tee Support online tech support team.

search.openmediasoft.com Virus Analysis

search.openmediasoft.com is a specially browser hijacker virus that forcibly and sneakily change  your homepages and other settings of the infected browser to generate online revenues via pay-pay-click promotion campaign. The browser virus infection is usually resulted from freeware, shareware or peer-to-peer networking sharing. The malware piggybacks on the applications and gets permitted when the users install them without reading over the agreement. It may be also introduced by other malicious toolbar or add-ons.

Apart from the weird changes on browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome with a monopolized search page or homepage and unexpected redirect searching navigation to irrelevant dubious websites, you may also find that the computer is slow to a crawl with a high CPU consumption. What's more, your may fail to download programs or files with error prompts. The browser may get crashed in this way as well.

The browser virus may also exploit cookies to promote the sponsored sites or products without users knowledge. Others may track your browser history and send to remote server. Some scripted program may be inserted to capture valuable information while you keystroke. All collected data will be packed before sending out to remote server. Last but not least, it may also downgrade the security level and make the system prone to other infections. In order to prevent any further damage to the computer and violation of stored files and personal information, users should get rid of search.openmediasoft.com virus once you detect it.

search.openmediasoft.com Screenshot



search.openmediasoft.com Virus Removal Comments

Browser virus are undetectable by diagnostic applications in general, since it drops its files with random names and makes modification with obscuration. You may find search.openmediasoft.com lingers after deleting all temp files, browsing history, reset the browser even reinstall them. What's more, all scans show up clean however it keeps failing to recover the default homepage. Right now manual means is the best way to erase search.openmediasoft.com browser hijacker.  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:
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbardtx.ini
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarguid.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarlog.txt
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarpreferences.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstat.log
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallStatIE.dat
%AppData%[trojan name]toolbarversion.xml
Step 3: Navigate to remove the registry entries associated as below in Registry Editor:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuardCurVer
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuardCLSID
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuard
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREClasses[trojan name]IEHelper.DNSGuard.1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbar “[trojan name]”
Notes:  If you are still confused with above procedures, please click here to contact a 24/7 online expert for more details.

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