Does your browser pop up Adware.HappyLyrics recently? Is your browser showing up annoying adware all the time while you are visiting webpages? Do you notice that your browser has been hijacked? Actually all of these annoying issues are caused by a redirect virus. If you don’t know much about browser hijacker or popping up adware, follow this post and learn how to get rid of it now.
Adware.HappyLyrics is a harmful adware program which causing many troubles in the infected computer. It usually intrudes into the infected computer by free downloading or malicious link that usually bundles with free online videos. At first, it will intrude the computer inadvertently while you are watching online videos or viewing webpages. After that, it starts to make lots of changes in Operating system settings as well as system registry files. Later, it comes up vast of fake advertisement with alerts. It is trying to mess up your computer so that it would be more convenience and easier to take advance from the owner of the infected computer.
Adware.HappyLyrics displays lot of fake ads with alert, not only to harm your system but also to block you from access your system and to steal personal info for its illegal benefits. In this situation, users may feel that it is difficult to get rid of it. Manual removal can be the best choice. But please be careful during the removal in case any mistakes damaging the computer.
Adware.HappyLyrics is a browser hijacker which will change the homepage and browser settings, and redirect your web search results to random sites containing lots of illegal advertisements, even Trojan, rootkit or other malware virus. Sometimes the antivirus software cannot identify the computer threat accurately and timely or remove it permanently. Therefore, manual removal is the best choice to uninstall it completely from your computer. Users can follow the manual guide here to have this virus removed instantly.
1. Show hidden files
(1). Click on the Start button and then on Control Panel
(2). Click on the Appearance and Personalization link
(3). Click on the Folder Options link
(4). Click on the View tab in the Folder Options window
(5). Choose the Show hidden files, folders, and drives under the Hidden files and folders category
(6). Click OK at the bottom of the Folder Options window.
2. Delete virus files
(1). Delete the related registry entries virus through Registry Edit
Guides to open registry editor: Click “Start” menu, hit “Run”, then type “regedit”, click “OK”
While the Registry Editor is open, search and delete the following registry entries listed below:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[RANDOM CHARACTERS].exe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” =Random
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer\run\Random.exe
(2). Find out and remove the associated files.
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Random“.exe”
Adware.HappyLyrics which interferes with networking software, commonly causes difficulty connecting to the Internet. It is created by hackers for further usage such as commercial promotion or meeting their marketing needs. It displays numerous advertisements and comes up annoying pop-up that forces PC users to see their products. Once installed, it will start to make troubles in your computer, like popping up many annoying ads, inviting other threatens and keeping records of your online activities. It is mostly used for the purposes such as tracking and storing internet users’ movements on the web; serving up pop-up ads to internet users; over using your system resources, and make it run quite slowly. To avoid being stealing personal info from hackers for illegal benefits, you should remove this hijacker fast and complete.
If you have no idea of how to do that, please contact experts from YooCare Online Tech Support for further help.
Published by on June 13, 2013 3:15 am, last updated on June 13, 2013 3:15 am
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