Saturday, March 29, 2014

How to Manually Remove Upkendint.com Virus from Your PC



Upkendint.com Information

Upkendint.com is classified as a browser hijacker which can affect your browsing experience badly. When you work on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and other famous browsers, you are often harassed by tons of pop-up ads. Besides, your homepage and search engine are both changed to Upkendint.com. In general, once this pest alters the settings of your browser, it will not allow you to set them back. Even though you reinstall your browser, this uncomfortable site can still appear. And it keeps causing redirections to promote sponsored websites and collect network traffic.

For helping sponsors increasing the ranking of their websites, this browser hijacker adds many sponsored links to your search results. Once you are led to these unauthorized sites, this browser hijacker will get paid from third parties. Upkendint.com is used by hackers to keep track of your browsing actions and browser histories. Provided that your credit card information is collected by hackers, your money would be stolen possibly.

If you remove this kind of virus in delay, you not only lose your money but also your computer. It is said that Upkendint.com can utilize system vulnerabilities to drop many horrible viruses to your computer. And lots of system resources will be taken up by a bunch of unnecessary programs all of sudden. As a result, your PC starts to run sluggishly and it often shuts down automatically. In short, you’ll be disturbed by a series of computer problems. As mentioned above, you really need to remove Upkendint.com from your PC.

Detailed Manual Removal Guide of Upkendint.com Virus

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


Step 2: Remove the files of Upkendint.com. 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.


%temp%\random.exe

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



HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings “CertificateRevocation” = ‘1’
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Attachments “SaveZoneInformation” = ‘0’

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

 


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 Upkendint.com from IE.



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



Step 6: Reboot your PC.