Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Remove Spy Lookout Adware Virus Effectively

More Information about Spy Lookout
Spy Lookout is classified as a nasty adware virus which can mess up targeted computer badly. At the first impression, you will recognize that this is just a normal website for providing free useful programs. If you download it in your computer, soon you will notice that there are lots of weird things happening in your computer. Actually, even though you didn't download Spy Lookout personally, it still can come into your computer along with free programs which you can download from internet.

Since Spy Lookout gets inside your computer, it changes browser settings and puts many useless stubborn add-ons on browsers automatically. In this case, this program can perform its vicious activities better because it was designed by cyber criminals to promote certain commercial websites and get profits by increasing the traffic. Meanwhile, overwhelming pop-up ads which are shown by Spy Lookout will jump out and cover the whole computer screen. At the first beginning, you may be able to live up with these pop-up ads. But later more problems show up and it's important for you to fix the problem immediately.

Furthermore, Spy Lookout also can record your internet activities information like traces, cookies and bookmarks. So next time it can promote some websites which are more closer to what you have searched. Besides, it also will send your personal information to remote cyber criminals for achieving their illegal purposes. Under such circumstance, if you want to have a clean networking environment and protect your privacy from being exposed, you should remove Spy Lookout from your computer without any delay.
Spy Lookout Screenshot
Disadvantage of Spy Lookout
1. It inserts many stubborn add-ons on your browsers.
2. It changes default browser settings automatically.
3. It displays lots of unwanted pop-up ads on computer screen.
4. It may bring in other malicious programs sneakily.
5. It records your online information for future marketing.
Effective Method to Uninstall TenchisTV Toolbar
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:
Reboot the computer and before Windows interface loads, hit F8 key repeatedly. Choose “Safe Mode with Networking” option, and then press Enter key. System will load files and then get to the desktop in needed option.
 
Step Two:
Open Windows Task Manager and end virus processes. There are three ways to launch the Task Manager
① Press keys Ctrl+Alt+Del.
② Press keys Ctrl+Shift+Esc.
③ Press the Start button→click on the Run option→Type in taskmgr→press OK.
                                              
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 Spy Lookout files: 
%UserProfile%\Programs\AppData\random.exe
%UserProfile%\Programs\Temp\random.dll
%UserProfile%\Programs\AppData\Roaming\random.dll 
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all Spy Lookout registry entries and keys.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Clients\StartMenuInternet\seamonkey.exe\shell\open\command"(Default)"="C:\Program Files\seamonkey\seamonkey.exe http://www.<random>.com/?type=sc&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>" 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Search_URL" = "http://www.<random>.com/web/?type=ds&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>&q={searchTerms}"   
 
METHOD 2. Automatic Removal 
To completely delete Spy Lookout, 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 Spy Lookout Removal Tool.                                                                                   


    

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