Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Easy Way to Remove/Get Rid of Vinedale.com Redirect Virus Permanently



Vinedale.com keeps redirecting your IE homepage to other unknown websites? Vinedale.com lowers the speed of your computer? Vinedale.com comes back again when you have reset your web browser? Don’t worry. I think this post can help you out of that.

What is Vinedale.com?

Vinedale.com is a browser hijacker that not only messes up your browser experience but also plays havoc with your Windows operating system badly. Once you enter this malicious domain carelessly, you should close your browser and remove it from your PC without delay.

Once being infected, your browser homepage and search engine are both changed to Vinedale.com. And DNS data can’t avoid being modified, which may affect the Internet connection and your network activities. Then Vinedale.com begins to disturb you through causing redirection. Every single time you open a new tab or a regular site, you are led to irrelevant websites immediately.


What irritates you is that this browser hijacker clutters your search results. When you click on them, you are forced to visit game sites, commercial sites and other sponsored sites. Needlessly to say, these problems must annoy you very much. Besides, in order to help remote hackers and sponsors get profitable information, Vinedale.com gathers your browsing histories and searching keywords. Provided that some bad guys collect your sensitive information like email passwords, bank account login details, they might harass you with different ways.

Can Vinedale.com Cause Harm to Your Computer?

1) It installs many unwanted applications to take up a great amount of computer resources.
2) It slows down your computer performance and causes system crash from time to time.
3) It makes use of system loopholes to drop other viruses like pop-up viruses, ransom viruses and Trojan infections onto your PC.

How to Remove Vinedale.com?

At present, a number of antivirus programs can’t remove Vinedale.com from your computer. To stop Vinedale.com from causing redirection, you need to remove it manually and set back your browser settings. You can follow the removal guide below to have a try.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete at the same time to open Task Manager. Disable the process of Vinedale.com.

Step 2: Find out all hidden files of Vinedale.com. Go to Control Panel from Start Menu; Type Folder Option in Search Bar; Check Show hidden files and folders and deselect the option of Hide protected operating system files in View tab and then click on OK.


Step 3: Find out and remove registries of Vinedale.com. Click Start button and search for “regedit” to open Registry Editor.

Step 4: Resetting DNS settings

1. Open your Control Panel from Start Menu, and then choose “View network status and task” in “Network and Internet”.

2. Select the option of Network and Sharing Center and click “Change adapter settings”.

3. Select the corresponded network adapter as you are using and right click to open a menu then select “Properties”.

5. Select “Internet Protocol Verrion4(TCP/IPV4), then click Properties button.

6. Choose “Use the following DNS server addresses”. Set “preferred DNS server” to 8.8.8.8.

Step 5: Reboot your computer