How to Get Rid of Hot-finder.com Redirect Virus Effectively

Hijacked by Hot-finder.com? 

Hot-finder.com belongs to browser hijacker family which can be installed in your computer together with free softwares such as media players, flash updates, PDF readers and so on which you have downloaded from internet. Once your computer is compromised, your browsing experience will be destroyed by this browser hijacker terribly. After Hot-finder.com gets inside your computer, it can infect all the browsers like IE, Firefox and Chrome and it can change the default browser settings without letting you know. You won’t notice nothing until you open your browsers and you find that your homepage and search engine have been replaced by Hot-finder.com automatically. No matter how many times you have tried to restore your browser settings, Hot-finder.com still can stay in your computer stubbornly. With Hot-finder.com resides in your computer, you will be redirected to unwanted websites which are full of advertisements and which are related to Hot-finder.com. Besides, you also will receive various pop-up ads on your computer screen to interrupt your internet activities awfully. 

Actually, you can protect your computer from such infections like Hot-finder.com to some extends. The only thing you need to do is that paying more attention when you download or install a new program. You should always choose customer installation in order to make sure no additional applications can sneak in your computer because many malwares has the ability to get inside your computer secretly by adding itself to certain free softwares. But if Hot-finder.com starts to harass you, you should take immediate actions to remove it from your computer without any hesitations.

Hot-finder.com Screenshot

Harmfulness of Hot-finder.com 
1. It changes default browser settings without letting you know. 
2. It replaces your homepage and search providers automatically.
3. It redirects your search results to unwanted commercial websites.
4. It displays countless pop-up ads on your computer screen.
5. It records your internet activities traces for future marketing.
6. It can't be removed successfully by antivirus programs.
Hot-finder.com Removal Guide
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 Hot-finder.com 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 Hot-finder.com 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 Hot-finder.com related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.

3. Chrome:
Click "Menu" to open "Tools" and then click "Extensions". Find Hot-finder.com 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 Hot-finder.com files: 

%CommonAppData%\.exe

C:\Windows\Temp\.exe

%Temp%\.exe

C:\Program Files\

Step Five:

Open Registry Editor by pressing Windows+R keys, type in regedit and click “OK” to launch the Windows Registry. Then delete all Hot-finder.com registry entries and keys. 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof\Internet Explorer\Main “Default_Page_URL” = “http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=&from=tugs&uid=”

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsof\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing “NewTabPageShow” = “1”

 

METHOD 2. Automatic Removal
To completely delete Hot-finder.com, 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 Hot-finder.com Removal Tool. 
                                                                                   

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