Thursday, March 27, 2014

Remove OkiiTan Adware Virus in Effective Way

OkiiTan Description
OkiiTan has bad reputation online because it can put many bad stuffs in your computer and interrupt your browsing experience terribly by showing overwhelming pop-up ads. You should never trust this program and download anything from its homepage because it is an adware which can mess up targeted computer badly. But sometimes even if you didn't download OkiiTan personally, this tricky program still can sneak in your computer by adding itself to free programs. Therefore, you should pay more attention when you surf internet.

Once OkiiTan breaks in your computer successfully, it will perform many naughty activities to cause troubles. At the very first beginning, it changes browser settings and inserts many stubborn add-ons on your browsers. So no matter what you are doing online, you will keep receiving various pop-up ads on your computer screen. Later OkiiTan may invites more malicious programs such as browser hijackers, ransomwares, Trojan viruses and so on in your computer. You will notice that your computer is acting quite weird and your PC performance has been dragged down awfully. Moreover, this program has the ability to record your online information for achieving its illegal purposes.

In this case, you should remove OkiiTan from your computer without any delay. But you also may notice that your antivirus don't work as you have expected, so it's useless for you to remove this adware by using antivirus. Since OkiiTan actually is not a real virus, it is a potential unwanted program but it will bring in many malicious things including high-level viruses. Thus, you are suggested to take manual method to clear OkiiTan from your computer and you may follow the removal guide in this article.
OkiiTan Screenshot

Harmful Properties of OkiiTan 
1. It sneaks in browsers and modifies browser settings automatically.
2. It inserts many useless stubborn add-ons on your browsers.
3. It invites other malicious programs in your computer.
4. It displays lots of pop-up ads on your computer screen.
5. It has the ability to record your internet activities information.
6. It can't be removed successfully by antivirus programs. 
Uninstall OkiiTan Step by Step
Before the removal, please first back up your system! You should be extremely careful when deleting any file, because any mistake may lead to system crashes and other severe consequence.
METHOD 1. Manual Removal
Step One:
Click "Start" to open "Control Panel", then click "Uninstall a program". Then uninstall OkiiTan programs and other unknown programs.
Step Two: 
Remove Add-ons from browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome).
1. Internet Explorer:
Click "Tools" and then click "Manage add-ons". Find OkiiTan related extensions and other unknown add-ons in "Toolbars and Extensions" and "Disabled" them.

2. Firefox:
Click "Firefox(Tools)" and then click "Add-ons". Find OkiiTan related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.
3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find OkiiTan related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" them.
Step Three:
Click “Start” button and open the “Control Panel”, then double-click “Folder Options”. When the Folder Options window shows up, please click on the “View” tab, tick “Show hidden files and folders” and unmark “Hide protected operating system files(Recommended)” and then press OK.
Step Four:
Open Start menu and click on the “Search programs and files” box. Then delete OkiiTan files: 
%CommonAppData%\random.exe
C:\Windows\Temp\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
C:\Program Files\random
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all OkiiTan registry entries and keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Start Page" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "CustomizeSearch" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchterms}"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search "SearchAssistant" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchterms}"
 
METHOD 2. Automatic Removal 
To completely delete OkiiTan, you need to know that the manual removal above may not be able to remove virus  completely, because the creators of virus are always updating the virus version.Besides,any tiny mistake during the manual removal process may lead to severe consequences. Therefore,to ensure a complete and safe virus removal, it’s recommended that you get rid of virus with Automatic OkiiTan Removal Tool.                                                                                   


    

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