Monday, March 17, 2014

How to Remove/Clean up Loa.teebik.com Pop-up Virus from IE/Chrome/Firefox


Loa.teebik.com is a Dangerous Pop-up Virus


Loa.teebik.com is viewed as a malicious program that displays a lot of advertisements on a target computer. This virus is often from shady websites, unknown “free” programs and spam email attachments. The purpose of this unwanted program is to collect network traffic and get revenue for third parties. Once Loa.teebik.com appears on your browser like Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, you can not visit any websites you like. It takes the control of your browser and shows tons of ads. At the same time, this adware program provides you with a fake search provider. Every single time you search for music, video or other messages, this malicious program gathers your searching keywords.

 Also, it shows you a plenty of irrelevant search results. It is possible that you are misled into sponsored websites by these fake messages. Moreover, as a vicious adware program, Loa.teebik.com installs a majority of unwanted programs onto your Windows. In most cases, some computer viruses like ransomware, rogueware and Trojan horses come bundled with these unwanted programs. If your antivirus program installed on the contaminated PC is disabled by a certain horrible virus, your computer will be at risk. And a number of cyber criminals can enter your computer stealthily and cause identity theft secretly. As mentioned above, Loa.teebik.com is a very unreliable domain which should be removed from your PC.

How to Remove Loa.teebik.com Permanently?

Because Loa.teebik.com can not be detected and quarantined by antivirus programs, you need to remove it manually. You have to end its process in your system first and find out its files. If you don’t know what you should do, please follow the guide below.

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



Step 2: Remove Loa.teebik.com from start-up items. Click on Start button, input msconfig in the search bar and click OK. After you open System Configuration, find out all suspicious start-up items and disable them.

 

Step 3: Remove the files of Loa.teebik.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.


Step 4: Uninstall some 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 Loa.teebik.com from IE.



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


Step 6: Reboot your PC.