Has your homepage on Google Chrome been changed to an unknown website called Infomash.com? It may look like a real search engine to you. But do you know it’s actually a browser hijacker? Can you change the previous homepage back? Do you get the searching results you want? The answer is no and that’s because of this browser virus. You need to delete it from your computer as soon as possible.
Infomash.com is categorized as a nasty browser hijacker that targets at computer users of all ages. A browser hijacker or browser redirect virus is a malicious rogue that appears mostly in the forms of websites, changes your homepages and redirects all your searching results to hacked webpages and links without your approval. You may easily get tricked by it as it shows on your browsers as a normal or even legitimate search engine. But instead of providing you real resources from the Internet, Infomash.com virus leads you to malicious places and helps viruses and malware to get into your computer. Eventually, you’ll be suffering from great losses. This is known as a cyber financial fraud.
Where did you pick up this Infomash.com browser redirect virus since you have taken care of your computer for all the time? It is believed that visiting websites that contain porno or gambling contents, receiving spam emails or downloading fake nasty applications will all lead to this infection. Once being infected, your computer will still be working normally. But be careful! If you cannot manage to remove this virus off your computer in time, you may not even access to your computer later. Even though this Infomash.com browser hijacker stays only on your browser, it will still be able to infect other functions of your computer. If you proceed your online activities with this fake search engine, you will get a lot of annoying pop ups. Besides, all your searching results are not real ones. There are numerous viruses, bugs, malware and ransomware hidden in these results. If you log on one of them, all the problems may be allowed to auto download to your computer without permission. It is believed that these search results are sponsored by criminals instead of actual queries of computer users. To prevent you from suffering, it is better to delete this Infomash.com browser hijacker before your computer suffers from more troubles.
1. It will bring more viruses and ransomware to your computer without permission;
2. It will allow remote hackers to enter your computer and collect all your valuable information to make illegal benefits;
3. You will get redirected to unwanted websites and receive constant pop-up windows to interrupt you from using the computer;
4. System flaws may be created and certain functions of computer could be disabled if there’s not an immediate removal;
5. The computer will be running slower than ever and getting stuck constantly.
Since your antivirus program cannot deal with this Infomash.com browser redirect virus successfully, you will need to manually delete it by following these steps given as below. And in case any mistakes might happen during the process, please spend some time on making a backup before getting started:
1. Reboot your infected computer and keep pressing F8 key before Windows start-up screen shows; next use the arrow keys to select “Safe Mode with Networking” and press E/Enter;
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del on your keyboard or right click on the bottom task-bar to open the Windows Task Manager;
3. End process [Infomash.com];
3. Open Folder Options from Control Panel, then click View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) then click OK;
4. Press Windows+R keys to open Run and type in regedit to search;
5. Find out and delete all these associating files:
%AppData%\Protector-[rnd].exe
%AppData%\result.db
%AllUsersProfile%\{random}\
%CommonStartMenu%\Programs\ Infomash.com.lnk
6. Find out and remove all these associating registry entries:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Regedit32
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\{ rnd }
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\DisallowRun
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current\Winlogon\”Shell” = “{ Infomash.com }.exe”
7. Reboot the computer to normal mode when the above steps are done.
Note: If you don’t have much computer background knowledge and have failed to remove Infomash.com redirect virus, please contact YooCare a fast and overall help.
Published by & last updated on July 19, 2012 8:04 am
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