Roles that Lightning SpeedDial can play on your computer
Lightning SpeedDial is considered as an adware that is created as an advertisement displaying platform. It can insert ads on the browsers including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Once it is installed, the modification of your browser default settings like search engine is performed without your permission. As a result, you have to experience all the chaos from Lightning SpeedDial. Lightning SpeedDial is capable of playing these roles on your computer:
1. A troublemaker: it makes your computer system vulnerable for the additional unwanted potential program like trojan, browser hijacker and ransomware so that they can penetrate your compute easily.
2. A retarder: it drags down your computer seriously by starting its background activities. It makes your computer take a much longer time execute any program.
3. A thief: it steals your browsing history and gathers the information for the marketers to deliver more and more related ads. Besides, your confidential information like banking details and some personal account log in details may be stolen.
How is Lightning SpeedDial distributed?
1. Freeware or shareware downloading and installing from the internet.
2. Clicking the malicious links.
3. Browsing the hacked websites carried with exploit code or the sites with dad reputation.
4. Opening the infected email attachment.
Lightning SpeedDial removal instruction :
Solution 1: Remove Lightning SpeedDial Manually
1. End all the running processes of Lightning SpeedDial Open task manager by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del keys at the same time. Another way is to click on the Start button and choose Run option, then type taskmgr into and press OK.
Stop all the malicious running processes.
2. Remove malicious add-on and extensions from your web browsers. Internet Explorer: (1). Click Start, type: Manage browser add-on.
(2). Hit Enter on your keyboard
(3). Click Manage add-on and disable all the suspicious add-on.
Firefox: (1). Click the Firefox menu and click Add-on
(2). Click Extensions, select the related browser add-on and click Disable. Google Chrome:
(1). Click the Customize and Control menu button →Tools→ click Extensions
3. Disable any suspicious startup items that are made by this computer virus Windows Vista or Windows7: click start menu→type msconfig in the search bar → open System Configuration →Disable all possible startup items generated.
4. Clean cookies Internet Explorer: Tools → Internet Options →the General tab, Delete the Cookies button can be directly seen in IE6, IE7 is to click the Delete Browsing History button then tick Cookies and click Delete. Firefox: Tools → Options → Privacy → Remove Individual Cookies → Delete corresponding cookies in the cookies showing box. Opera: Tools → Preferences → Advanced → Cookies →Delete corresponding cookies in Management Cookies.
5. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files about Lightning SpeedDial (1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.
%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\ %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\ %AllUsersProfile%\random.exe %AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe %Temp%\random.exe %AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random6. Delete malicious registry entries related to Lightning SpeedDial. Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )
Delete all the vicious registries as below:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Run\random.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\Explorer\Navigating HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run \Regedit32 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = 0 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableTaskMgr” = 1 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\random
Solution 2: Remove Lightning SpeedDial automatically (with SpyHunter)
Step A. Download removal tool SpyHunter1) Click here or the icon below to download SpyHunter automatically.
2) Follow the instructions to install SpyHunter
Step B. Run SpyHunter to block Lightning SpeedDial
Run SpyHunter and click "Malware Scan" button to scan your computer, after detect this unwanted program, clean up relevant files and entries completely.
(You may also be supposed to optimize your computer with RegCure Pro which can deeply figure out and fix various windows registry errors so as to avoid potential risk, as well as to ensure your computer security.)
Step C. Download PC optimizer RegCure Pro
1) Click here or the icon to download RegCure Pro
2) Follow the instructions to install RegCure Pro
Step D. Run RegCure Pro to optimize your PC