Thursday, October 23, 2014

How to Get Rid of Mystartsearch.com

Redirected to Mystartsearch.com?

Similar to Astromenda.com virus and lab.trovi.com virus, Mystartsearch.com is a new browser hijacker virus which has attacked many computers and brought lots of troubles to those victims. To help you better understand it, we will introduce Mystartsearch.com in this passage, including its infection symptoms, spreading channels and damages.

First of all, you need to know how to judge whether a computer is infected with Mystartsearch.com or not. The most obvious symptom is that the homepage of your web browser is replaced by Mystartsearch.com and you can’t change back to the former one by changing browser settings and when you search some information via Google, Yahoo, Bing or other legit search engines, the results will be rerouted to Mystartsearch.com or other unwanted websites. And the same situation will occur when you are trying to open a new link, too. Besides, there are other symptoms, such as annoying pop-up advertisements, snail-like Internet connection speed and computer performance. Therefore, once your computer has the above symptoms, it has been attacked by Mystartsearch.com. 
According to our research and victims’ feedback, the virus is spread via concealing itself into freeware installation packages, malicious websites and spam emails. Once you download or open the infected documents carelessly, the virus sneaks into your system quickly. After finishing installation, it will modify your browser and DNS settings, which makes it have the ability to redirect your browsers. And then, it will add some files to the Windows registry for activating automatically and bypassing your antivirus programs. Moreover, the virus will install various malware in the background which can not only monitor and record your browser interests, but also steal your personal data like online banking accounts and passwords.

Therefore, the longer Mystartsearch.com exists in your system, the more damages it produces. You should get rid of Mystartsearch.com as soon as possible, before it produces other worse results. 

Dangers of Mystartsearch.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. 

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Mystartsearch.com Removal Tip

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 Mystartsearch.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 Mystartsearch.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 Mystartsearch.com related extensions and other unknown extensions and "Disable" or "Remove" them.

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

%Windows%\System32\Drivers\random.sys
%Desktop%\random.lnk
%AppData%\result.db

Step Five:

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

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TabbedBrowsing “NewTabPageShow” = “1”
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main “Start Page”
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\supWPM

METHOD 2. Automatic Removal

To completely delete Mystartsearch.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 Mystartsearch.com Removal Tool. 
                                                                                   
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