Wednesday, April 9, 2014

How to Uninstall ConnectSo Toolbar Virus Completely

What Is ConnectSo Toolbar? 
Many computer users complain about that ConnectSo Toolbar stays in their computer stubbornly and causes many troubles. With this toolbar in their computers, they can’t have normal browsing experience. Even though they have tried to reset their browser settings, ConnectSo Toolbar still can come back again. They are clueless about how to remove this toolbar from their computers completely. Don’t worry. Manual removal is recommended as a better and more effective way to remove this toolbar. Here in this article are some tips about manual removal guide which you may follow.

But how ConnectSo Toolbar performs its vicious activities in targeted computer without any difficulties? Normally, it can get inside your computer together with software programs. Once it breaks in your computer successfully, it changes browser settings forcibly. Thus, you will notice that your homepage and search engine is hijacked by search.conduit.com. Every time you search for something, ConnectSo Toolbar will add many unwanted sponsored links to your search results so that you can’t get the exact information that you want.

Furthermore, you will receive overwhelming pop-up ads which are shown by ConnectSo Toolbar. This thing will happen because this toolbar may also invite some nasty adwares in your computer automatically. What’ worse, if you use ConnectSo Toolbar to search information, it will record your online information for its own benefits. Under such circumstance, you are strongly advised to remove ConnectSo Toolbar from your computer completely.
ConnectSo Toolbar Screenshot
Harmfulness of ConnectSo Toolbar
1. It infects all browsers and modifies the browser settings automatically.
2. It replaces your homepage and search engine without permission.
3. It redirects you to unwanted websites which are supported by itself.
4. It shows bunch of annoying pop-up ads on your computer screen.
5. It can't be removed by antivirus and can stays in your computer safely.
6. It records your online traces and send the data to cyber criminals. 
Remove ConnectSo Toolbar Effectively
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 ConnectSo Toolbar 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 ConnectSo Toolbar 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 ConnectSo Toolbar related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.
3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find ConnectSo Toolbar 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 ConnectSo Toolbar files: 
%AllUsersProfile%\ConnectSo Toolbar.exe
C:\Program Files\ConnectSo Toolbar
C:\Windows\System32\giner.exe
Step Five:
Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all ConnectSo Toolbar registry entries and keys.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\random 
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\random website address
 
METHOD 2. Automatic Removal 
To completely delete ConnectSo Toolbar, 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 ConnectSo Toolbar Removal Tool.                                                                                   


    

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