Sunday, March 16, 2014

Gym.macpath.net Pop-up Virus Manual Removal Guide



Gym.macpath.net Description

Gym.macpath.net is a browser hijacker which uses tons of ads to make your browsing experience miserable. This malicious website can appear on different web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Nasty as it is, this browser hijacker often shows lots of sponsored ads to deceive you. Perhaps some ads contained coupons and discounts seem to be attractive, but you’d better not click on them. These questionable ads can put you into sponsored websites. Besides, Gym.macpath.net takes the liberty of installing malicious programs onto your PC with the purpose of increasing the numbers of sponsored applications downloads. However, your computer resources will be taken up heavily. Then your machine has no enough space to support itself to run. That it is why your machine often takes some time to boot up and open programs. Additionally, Gym.macpath.net makes changes to your homepage and search engine without your authorization. It is not tired to add sponsored links to search results and redirect you to unknown domain. Because of endless redirections, you are unable to enter normal websites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. The appearance of Gym.macpath.net also drops viruses to your PC, which results in more many troubles and problems.

How to Uninstall/Remove Gym.macpath.net Permanently? 

It is strongly recommended that Gym.macpath.net should be removed without delay as it is not good for you. This guide below can help you out of that.

Step 1: Press Ctrl+ALT+Del keys at the same time to open Task Manager. End the process of Gym.macpath.net

Step 2: Remove the files of Gym.macpath.net. Open Start Menu and then go to Control Panel. Then use the search bar to look for Folder Option. Check Show hidden files and folders and un-check Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) in the View tab of Folder Option window.

C:\windows\system32\drivers\mrxsmb.sys(random)
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.dll
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\.exe

Step 3: Delete Gym.macpath.net registry entries from your PC. Click start button and search for regedit to open Registry Editor.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system “ConsentPromptBehaviorUser” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System “DisableRegedit” = 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows

Step4: Click Start button and select Control Panel. Then click Programs/Programs and Features, uninstall all suspicious programs from your PC.

For Win7:
Click Start button, choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and Features.


 



For Win8:
Right click in the lower left corner of your PC screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Uninstall a Program.

 



Step 5: Remove toolbars and extension from your web browser.

For Google Chrome

1. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and navigate to Tools > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions by clicking Bin button.

2. Click the icon that looks like a spanner and click Settings > Appearances > Show Home button > click Change button to reset your homepage.

For Mozilla Firefox

1. Click Ctrl+Shift+A at the same time to open Add-ons page > Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.

2. Click the Firefox button > Help > Troubleshooting Information > click on Reset Firefox button.

For Internet Explorer

1. Click Tools > Manage Add-ons > Toolbars and Extensions to remove all unknown extensions.

2. Click Search Providers, delete Gym.macpath.net from IE.

3. Click Tools > Internet Options > General. And create a new homepage on Home page box.

Step 6: Reboot your PC.