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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Help Stop Feed.Snapdo.com from Redirecting Fast!


Description on feed.snapdo.com: Feed.snapdo.com is a new variant of search.snapdo.com, therefore, they share the same interface. We have found that feed.snapdo.com will redirect directly to search.snapdo.com. Feed.snapdo is a browser hijacker that would harass your default homepage and would provide some unrelated search results to promote fake anti-virus programs.

Trick by feed.snapdo.com: it most of the time acts just like a normal search engine:

1)  gives search result that would be attached by its domain ‘feed.snapdo.com/ search.snapdo.com’, which is exactly what Google does;
2) would attach its toolbar onto your browser.

With time goes, you will notice that feed.snapdo is getting arbitrary: its toolbar would simply pop up and make your quest word typed into its search box instead of the original one; feed.snapdo.com would open itself automatically during browsing session. All previous silence is paying off. Therefore, we techs would suggest any PC user who gets feed.snapdo.com installed without knowledge find a quick way to eradicate the fake search engine program regardless what has been done to that compromised machine. Here, we list problems you may get if you delay the removal of feed.snapdo.com:

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Onewebsearch.com: How to Stop Calling out to Onewebsearch.com Search Redirect Virus?

Any click on onewebsearch.com web page would open up another ad page, which is really annoying during surfing session. Onewebsearch.com pretends itself to be a legitimate website, paralyzing PC users not to delete in quick as it needs to help its spammer get easy money by:
  1. Collecting any information stored in registry entries, and selling those information to other spammers in a bit to find out vulnerability on certain machine for easy and successful infiltration;
  2. Tracking users’ whereabouts and remember their preference so as to sell those information to adware;
  3. Providing shortcut access to spam information to help implement infiltration by other virus and get commission.
That’s why you will always receive many irrelevant search results and the situation is increasing in frequency.


Problems occurred after onewebsearch.com’s infiltration includes more than one issue:

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

How to Remove/Uninstall Yontoo Virus (Yontoo Ad and Yontoo Toolbar)?

Is yontoo supposed to be in my add-ons? 

Yontoo attaches its ads and toolbar on your browser, so usually it should be in extension/ plug-in/ add-on. But no progress is made from there because one simply cannot find its trace. Getting into Control Panel and removing yontoo there helps nothing, both yontoo ads and its toolbar survive even there’s no its indication in Control Panel and browser. What happens? Is that a ghost? Why would an add-on be that difficult to get rid of?



How would a tiny one be capable of bringing junks and virus into your system in the coming days?

The answer lies on the backdoor it makes. A light one doesn’t mean it is an innocuous one to your system. Yontoo virus manages to open up a backdoor invisible to you by inserting its critical part (registry entries) into the kernel part of the compromised machine. Once the backdoor is in shape, you will get all its affiliate things, that’s why PC users who get yontoo ads would finally get yontoo toolbar and vice versa. A backdoor can also be exploited by random virus. Therefore, we suggest a quick remove of yontoo virus, no matter you have its script pop up or toolbar.



2 Efficient Removal Antidotes 


Antidote A: Remove Yontoo Manually

1. Disable any suspicious startup items.

For Windows XP:
Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items including those of yontoo virus.

2. Show hidden files 

a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;
b) under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;
c) click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files created by yontoo virus:
  • C:\WINDOWS\assembly\KYH_64\Desktop.ini
  • C:\Windows\assembly\KYH_32\Desktop.ini
  • C:\WINDOWS\system32\giner.exe
3. Delete all registry values related to yontoo virus in your local hard disk C.
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Active Setup\Installed Components\random
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
    • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Installer\Products\5ATIUYW62OUOMNBX256 “(Default)”=”1?

      4. Remove add-ons:

      Assuming you use Mozilla Firefox:

      1) Click on the magnifier’s icon and select ‘Manage Search Engine…’;
      2) Choose ‘Search Results’ from the list and click ‘Remove’ and OK to save changes;
      3) Go to ‘Tools’ -> “Options”. Reset the startup homepage or change it to google.com under ‘General tab;  

      Attention: If you want to be the one who wants the removal to be a easy and automatic job, as we all say where there is a will, there is a way, Spyhunter can be your first choice. Download and install the most powerful antivirus program Spyhunter to kick the ass of  Yontoo .



      Antidote B: Remove Yontoo automatically (with SpyHunter)


      Step A. Download removal tool SpyHunter

      1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.


      2) Follow the instructions to install SpyHunter
        spyhunter run

      spyhunter setup

      spyhunter setup

      Step B. Run SpyHunter to block Yontoo

      Run SpyHunter and click "Malware Scan" button to scan your computer, after detect this unwanted program, clean up relevant files and entries completely.

       spyhunter3 scan

      Step C. Restart your computer to take effect.

      warm reminder:

      No one denies Spyhunter since it does such a good job.Want to remove Yontoo right away?
      Want to protect your computer from additional malware? Want to enjoy your surfing internet?
      Download and install Spyhunter to be your first safeguard.




      Sunday, June 23, 2013

      How to Remove Win64\Patched.A Completely

      Bad Things Win64\patched.a Does



      • win64\patched.a prevents installed anti-virus program from deleting it easily by making security utilities prompt error message saying something like “listed file can not be changed”;
      • win64\patched.a replaces c:\windows\system32\services and that can only be taken care of with expert skills since the files reference system service.
      • win64\patched.a makes itself a member of auto-run items at each reboot;
      • win64\patched.a triggers ads flood: link clicking would simply redirect to dating sites, travel sites, etc.;
      • more infections are detected ever since win64\patched.a settles down, they are trojan horses (Agent3.****) and luhe.sirefef.a;
      • win64\patched.a disables system restore functionality, in other word, system restore will not help make win64\patched.a disappeared.

      Summary on Win64\Patched.a



      Category: Trojan
      Risk factor: severe
      Dissemination routine: 

      Saturday, June 22, 2013

      Disable Gorilla Pricing Popup Ads And Keep It from Coming back!

      Trashy Annoying Gorilla Pricing



      Gorilla pricing seem to be everywhere on the webpage even though you are not doing shopping sometimes. With that the entire computer is slower than it should ever be; the browser that has been harassed by gorilla pricing has been increasingly slower; the browser attached by gorilla pricing  starts up and runs fine for a few minutes before freezing and only after clicking on the frozen browser do you get the pop up that it’s not responding. It is believe that the above listed is sufficient to make PC user want it off.


      Troubleshooting Will not Stop Gorilla Pricing Popup


      Friday, June 21, 2013

      Debug/ Remove Cloudfront.net Search Redirect from Windows

      You got many that are directed to this site: https://dq1dnt4af4eyy.cloudfront.net? Apparently, something need to be cautious about it because there are random numbers attached at the head of the URL and don’t looks normal.
      It has been told that "file find" program download is the beginning of cloudfront.net problem. So we suggest PC users be cautious when downloading "file find" program. See? Cloudfront.net manages to hijack your browser all of a sudden after it gets into your system by drive-by download or exploits vulnerability on web apps/ installed programs.


      Mess Caused by Cloudfront.net


      Tuesday, June 18, 2013

      Remove Qv06.com: How to Stop Ending up At Qv06.com

      Problem with qv06:
      • qv06.com spam site opens in a tab when starting IE or Firefox;
      • default homepage is hijacked by qv06.com with impossibility to be changed back;
      • uninstall browser that has qv06.com search engine virus and reinstall it still fail;
      • Empty out the temp folders and temporary internet folders and qv06 search redirect issue persists;
      • MSConfig is used to disable all startup, however qv06.com hovers around;
      • removing qv06.com from IE or Firefox setup doesn't help at all;
      • attempt to fix qv06.com search redirect problem with anti-virus program with no success;
      • messages about unwanted toolbars, random thingies are ready to install show during browser session.
      Is your computer really messed up after getting attacked by qv06.com? If you consider it as a normal search engine and keep using it, your computer will be in real trouble:

      Monday, June 17, 2013

      Assistance Needed: Remove Search.ueep.com from Browser Permanently

      Don’t ever click on “watch now” under the search box of ueep. Think of that legit search engines like Google, it doesn’t have ads attached. We have been told by some clients that they got endless adware and fake anti-virus program installed out of nowhere after accidental click. Brower hijacked by search.ueep.com? Ueep search redirections occur to IE, or Firefox or Google Chrome? Read this post to find detailed guide to get rid of search.ueep.com homepage virus.


      Dangers to Have Search.ueep.com


      Sunday, June 16, 2013

      Browser Change: Remove Quick-quote-insurance.com/www.goong.info Homepage Virus

      Brief Review on Quick-quote-insurance.com/www.goong.info



       As a matter of fact, quick-quote-insurance.com and www.goong.info is the same one browser hijacker that will automatically change your homepage to the image posted here without asking for your permission. Once you click on quick-quote-insurance.com, you will be taken to a fake Google search box with www.goong.info as its URL. You will realize that quick-quote-insurance.com and goong are the same when you are forced to do some searches with its search toolbar; at the end of the URL of search results, you will simply see quick-quote-insurance.com.

      Hard-core Goong.info Refusing to be Removed



      The browser malware comes as an extension or add-ons for your browser. Quick-quote-insurance.com/www.goong.info can get into your system by drive-by download of a freeware/shareware. However, goong.info search engine virus is not an easy come easy go thingy, it hovers around to be ready for more evil commitments:

      Saturday, June 15, 2013

      Unwanted Start.search.us.com/How to Stop Searchus Redirecting

      ‘when I install some apps some unwanted adds were installed
      so now my mozilla homepage is
      http:/start.search.us.com/v/2/?guid={652F549C-8E04-496D-AAD5-8E7084460598}&serpv=5
      I tried everything even deleting that folder from firefox & resetting the browser.startup.homepage but the problem still continuous’
      – report by one of victims.

      What we learned from above:

      Friday, June 14, 2013

      Fix Insydeflash.exe Error Message that Makes Machine Choppy

      We have just now received a case of Insydeflash.exe pop up error message and we have been told what problems occurred when having insydeflash.exe around:
      • did a system restore but it failed and upon reboot it asked to update;
      • clicked cancel and it updated something still;
      • insydeflash.exe is not showing on task manager since;
      • cpu usage was around 98% and only 1 program was running;
      • keyboard froze from now and then.
      Insydeflash is an executable file that attempts to get some program started. It is obviously not a systematic one because it has triggered some issues. Such executable file can be brought in along with another lurker, which means you may have downloaded something bad or you have gotten a virus and you don’t know what it is.


      No Hesitation to Exterminate Insydeflash.exe Error Message



      See that insydeflash file is giving you fake update message? Once you accidentally click on it, you may be flooded with a couple of malware that manage to open up a huge backdoor in the system to extract more of your information.

      Tuesday, June 11, 2013

      Get Rid of Udmserve.net Ad to Open Pages Normally

      How Safe Is Udmserve.net?



      Many people would get the message as quoted here "Name img.fetch type unknown file type from udmserve.net", and you will notice that it is trying to download something. As a matter of fact, it is a lot of things instead of something. We have just now received a case with udmserve.net and have been told by client that udmserve.net pop up is preventing tumblr.com from working.

      In such case, udm ad is not that safe, plus you can’t seem to remove the add-on easily. No normal and safe program will make changes to the system so as to stay in your precious machine. It is obvious that udmserve.net is either bundled with many ad-ons or programmed to load down junks. That’s why your PC performance is down considerably.

      Monday, June 10, 2013

      FBI Federal Lock down Virus: System Failure FBI Virus/How to Unblock Computer?

      Just like any other FBI federal lock up virus, the content is always your activity is being recorded, you should send more than 100 bucks via Ukash or something else to avoid jail because of downloading/viewing/possessing copy right content and the like. The interface is similar to others. No doubt, system failure fbi message is a scam, it is another variant of ukash virus.


      How System Failure FBI Virus Would Commit Harms



      You get blocked by system failure fbi virus means there’s vulnerability on your system/installed programs/web apps instead of violating laws listed by the fake message. When in, vicious items of federal system failure virus delete some system files and modify configuration to help itself impose harms without too much interruption.

      Remove Trojan horse Generic.32.CEMU that Is Sapping Memory

      since AVG has detected Trojan horse generic.32.CEMU, things just have not been right on the infected computer:
      • some system facilities not operational;
      • when try to restart Security Center in services, .msc the service starts and then immediately disables;
      • repeatedly attempting to restart Security Center eventually leads to an error message;
      • update just hanging and not completing;
      • Windows Explorer seems to be unresponsive at times;
      • scans by several anti-virus programs and got something deleted, yet computer gets hit with major lag;
      • strange and unfamiliar shortcut are added to your desktop;
      • manager>process>cpu usage, svchost.exe is using alot(50-80%) of CPU and is refusing to be ended or replaced by another svchost.exe.

       

      Dangerous Trojan horse Generic.32.CEMU


      Sunday, June 9, 2013

      How to Uninstall Webcake/Getwebcake.com from Browser?

      Crazy Webcake Ad! 



      • Webcake/webcake 3.00 will not uninstall from Control Panel and gives error message;
      • Webcake adware manages to stop PC users from accessing things via the web;
      • Webcake stays in your hard drive and cannot be removed from there since it says it is in use but there’s no indication of its use;
      • Actual application of webcake adware will not be deleted in tools settings;
      • Webcake is showing up with more and more extra ads offering coupons and PC health care tools.

      What Has Webcake Done? 



      Friday, June 7, 2013

      En.v9.com Portal Site Hijacks Search Engine! Remove V9 Redirect Search Virus

      en.v9.com becomes your default homepage all of a sudden and it stops other search engine/ search tools just to make sure that v9 is the only working search engine. Some PC user would not hate it as it does usual search but with its domain on; while others get irritated because of v9 portal site malware as it redirect every search result and it is increasing into frequency. En.v9.com simply become interrupting, making almost all running program tumbled. It can be imagined that many PC user would run a couple scans of various anti-virus/anti-malware tools, however, the result turns out to be clean! Control Panel seems to be disabled as it helps nothing either. 

      FBI MoneyPac White Unblock Screen Virus: ‘please connect to internet’/How to Unblock Computer?

      Description of problem 



      ‘please connect to internet’ white screen FBI virus shows "FBI Warning, send $300 to this address to fix" on its screen. You may have tries to get into any forms of mode but all you got is a white screen with just the text "“please connect to internet”. Save the effort and don’t try with Ctrl+Alt+Del as you will get nothing unless your operating system is Windows 8.
      Obviously, FBI ‘please connect to internet’ white screen virus is a scam as you are certainly connected to Internet but being blocked by it. We online techs suggest a quick remove as there were cases listed below happened because of delay:

      Wednesday, June 5, 2013

      Uninstall/Remove YTDownloader Virus (YouTube Downloader Toolbar)

      There are still many reviews promoting YTDownloader and claiming that it is a perfect add-on to help you download videos from YouTube easier and faster. Here’s the real case on what happened after one downloaded ytd into his/her computer:

      ‘After reading the reviews I downloaded and installed this in a sandbox environment and it installed the viruses:
      Win32:Adware-AQG [PUP]
      Win32:MultiPlug-X [PUP]
      NSIS:Adware-IQ [PUP]
      JS:DownloadNSave-B [PUP]’


      Tuesday, June 4, 2013

      Stop/Remove Findgala Homepage Virus (findgala.com) that Redirects without Stop!

      What Is Like to Get Findgala Redirect Problem?


      Spyhunter has helped many PC users remove findgala redirect virus, and we have surprised to find out that it is not always the same case to be attacked by findgala.com:
      • Some have their browsers to be redirected when they click on a webpage;
      • Some are redirected by findagale.com when they are searching and they are suffered from annoying audi in the background when they are not re-directed;
      • Some are told that the website can't be opened/displayed each time they open their browsers.
      It is obviously that findgala.com search engine virus keeps mutating all the time. But how? 

      Uninstall MyPC Backup to Disable Backup Popup Message

      What is myPC Backup?



      Tee Support Lab has tested MyPC Backup on our virtual machine and has found commons with Strongvault online backup. My pc backup program would give you reminders constantly, telling you that you need to backup your files online now. It is appearing irritating and you don’t want the reminder anymore but you don’t know where to start the remove. We have found that in the reminder message, there’s no indication of ‘mypc backup’ program, and we are told by some clients that they don’t know what mypc backup is, they never use it and don’t know they have downloaded it. If you Google ‘mypc backup’, you may find something astounding in some computer help forums – it is appearing along with search.conduit.com and other rogue programs! 

      Sunday, June 2, 2013

      How to Uninstall KeyBar 1.8 Toolbar from Browser?

       Why won't Control Panel Remove KeyBar 1.8 Toolbar?



      You don’t want keybar1.8 toolbar anymore, but when you are going to get rid of it, you notice something strange and of spyware type:
      • keybar1.8 toolbar is not present in extension menu.
      • keybar1.8 toolbar sticks around after you have ‘uninstalled’ it in remove programs under control panel.
      • there’s no uninstall file to remove keybar1.8 toolbar and it keeps have you ‘finish’ its install providing no option to ‘x’ out.
      • Computer running speed is slower than before and page loading speed is also slow.
      • Some PC users get search.conduit.com when keybar1.8 toolbar is hovering around.
      There must be some changes deep down in the computer when keybar1.8 toolbar is installed onto your system. That can be dangerous.

      Stop Harassed by Developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

      Why Want to Remove Developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?



      You find you are frequently taken to developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ before the intended page is allowed to load? With that, browser would flash or crash sometime, and the computer is running slower day by day. Spyhunter have been asked to help remove developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ because installed or downloaded security utilities are unable to detect anything or help relief the situation at all. Some PC users would not take console yahoo redirect virus seriously when the scenario is happening sporadically, thinking a piece of browser malware cannot arouse much trouble. If you think so, you are so wrong, please keep reading to get to know how dangerous it is to be redirected to developer.yahoo console.

      Saturday, June 1, 2013

      Remove Skype virus: “this is a very nice photo of you”-Manual Removal Guide

      Spyhunter has been around for more than 5 years, and we have met the message “this is a very nice photo of you” before on Facebook. Apparently it is a bug/scam. Usually, the message “this is a very nice photo of you” is usually followed by a long URL link which is composed of many random letters and numbers.

      “this is a very nice photo of you” is a scam, however, not every PC users realize that as it is shown to be sent by your contacts. People would fall into that trap purely because they want to say something nice back to their compliment. If you click on that message, you will be brought to a virus world, causing mess on your precious machine yourself.

      Uninstall ContinueToSave Toolbar Virus Completely

      Tech Analysis on ContinueToSave Toolbar 



      Continuetosave toolbar is a multi-component virus that would throw lots of harms to you in the cover of a tiny piece of toolbar:
      • Computer is running ridiculously slow with few programs running in the background; it takes longer than it should take to load Windows start-up screen;
      • Continue to save toolbar can trigger its redirect problem by constantly appearing on your browser during browse session;
      • Continue to save toolbar helps load down extra adware into the system.
      Continue to save toolbar is an intrusive virus that would help more to get into your precious machine thanks for the backdoor it opens up in your system without asking for your permission by randomly modifying settings to the system and delete some systematic files and folders to stop certain service on the system like firewall service; tracking cookies manage to commit information collection in the mean time because of the backdoor.


      2 Amazing Suggestions for Removing ContinueToSave



      Suggestion A: Remove ContinueToSave Manually


      1. Disable any suspicious startup items.


      For Windows XP:

      Click Start menu -> click Run -> type: msconfig in the search bar -> open System Configuration Utility -> Disable all possible startup items including those of continuetosave.

      2. Show hidden files 

      a) open Control Panel from Start menu and search for Folder Options;
      b) under View tab to tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK;
      c) click on the “Start” menu and then click on the “Search programs and files” box, Search for and delete these files created by continuetosave:
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\continue to save\bar\2.bin\continue to save
      • C:\Program Files (x86)\continue to save\bar\2.bin\continue to save
      • C:\Documents and Settings\user account\Application Data
      • C:\Documents and Settings\user account\Local Settings\Application Data
        3. Delete all registry values related to continuetosave in your local hard disk C.
          • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
          • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
          • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft
          • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

          Attention: You might be looking for something simple and more efficient to terminate ContinueToSave. Just clam down and hold your breath. Spyhunter can be your every first choice. Download and Install Spyhunter to protect your PC right away!



          Suggestion B: Remove ContinueToSave automatically (with SpyHunter)


          Step A. Download removal tool SpyHunter

          1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.



          2) Follow the instructions to install SpyHunter
            spyhunter run

          spyhunter setup

          spyhunter setup

          Step B. Run SpyHunter to block ContinueToSave

          Run SpyHunter and click "Malware Scan" button to scan your computer, after detect this unwanted program, clean up relevant files and entries completely.

           spyhunter3 scan

          Step C. Restart your computer to take effect.

          friendly tip:

          Manual Removal needs more expertise than you expect. Is there something that can remove ContinueToSave and protect your computer from other sorts of malware like trojan, spyware and ransomware at the same time? Yes!Spyhunter is exactly what you are looking for.
          Download and install Spyhunter to be your chief safeguard.