Have you failed to use your browser lately? Do you always get redirected to a certain webpage called Search.jzip.com? This particular webpage has been reported as a browser redirect virus. You should definitely get rid of it as soon as possible. Learn more information in the following.
Search.jzip.com is one of the nasty browser redirect virus many computer users may encounter with. Same as Blekko.com, Search.babylon.com and Pda.mybidsystem.com, it’s connecting to thousands of malicious websites with numerous viruses, malware and ransomware. Do not treat it as a common search engine judging by its appearance. Most redirect viruses have deceitful looks to trick you into lots of troubles.
You may wonder how did you get this infection and why didn’t the antivirus tool work on it? Downloading free unknown programs from the Internet, visiting illegal websites or opening spam emails will all lead you to the infection of Search.jzip.com. It is well designed to avoid the detection of antivirus software so as to get into your computer without drawing attention. Once it’s installed without any of you approval, it can change your homepage and other browser settings so that it can pop up after every reboot. No matter how usual it looks to you, always remember that this virus can bring you to a miserable place where you don’t want to be. When you use this fake search engine for your online searching, the redirected webpages will show a lot of pop up ads windows or security alerts to disturb your Internet activities. If you want to stop these annoying stuff, you should definitely start the manual removal processing right away before more unexpected dangers occur.
A. It can introduce lots of viruses and spyware into your computer without permission;
B. It can hide useless and infected files in your computer to do further harm;
C. The pop up ads from malicious websites will slow down your computer speed;
D. Icons and desktop background may be hidden and changed;
E. Some shortcuts won’t work as it has relocated the program files;
F. It will steal your personal information from your online activities.
If you want a quick solution to stop the pain, please contact with YooCare Experts to have a professional help now. Or if you want to do it by yourself, some steps are given in the following for you to consider.
Since antivirus software doesn’t work on this virus, you’d better manually remove it. Before you take actions, please take time to do a system backup first in case that any critical mistake might happen due to the lack of experience. Then follow these steps here to start immediately:
1. Restart the infected computer, repeatedly hit F8 key and then use arrow keys to highlight Safe mode with networking and press Enter key;
2. Open Windows Task Manager and end the process [random].exe;
3. Open Run window by Windows+R and type regit;
4. Find out and delete all these associating files:
%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe
%AppData%\result.db
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\*.lnk
5. Find out and remove all these associating registry entries:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{random}
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{random}.exe”
6. Reboot the computer when all the steps are done and enter with normal mode this time to check.
Note: If you don’t have much computer background knowledge and have failed to finish the removal by the instructions above, please contact YooCare Experts for a fast and immediate help.
Published by & last updated on June 5, 2012 9:55 am
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